The
Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
Department of History
FIU
The
Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching funded a five-year
project designed to
look into current practices involved in training new doctorates in several
fields, including history. One of the projects principal objectives
was to explore ways and means to align doctoral training closer
to the discipline's strong-held ideals
but within the context of a twenty-first
century
higher
education
environment of scholarship, teaching and learning. The resulting Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) emphasized the preparation of the
next generation
of stewards of the discipline.
The Department of History will be incorporating several
of the CID's mechanisms as part of its doctoral program's self-study
to be conducted throughout the Spring semester of 2008. Separate
questionnaires for the graduate faculty and doctoral students form
part of the process,
along with focus group discussions, and reviews of historical data
on the doctoral program's key indicators.
The CID was led by Dr. George Walker during his residency
at the Carnegie Endowment at Stanford. Dr. Walker, who is currently
Vice-President for Research and Dean of the University Graduate School
at FIU, is leading the University's series of self-studies of its doctoral
programs. The Department of History is among the first to undergo these
exercises and the CID forms part of its modus operandi.
For more information on the CID, click
here. |
