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3 THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS
Pages 15-17

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... At present, a large majority of the doctoral and postdoctoral programs in the United States are "standard-model" programs that educate research mathematicians for employment in academia and give too little attention to training for teaching. The following brief description of a research university provides insight into the increasing need for research universities to prepare mathematical scientists who can also teach and who can work effectively in government laboratories, business, and industry.
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... 7) Due to increasing production, to a large influx of researchers from the Soviet Union, China, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, and to an economic downturn in the United States, the 199Os have brought a tight employment market with few permanent academic research positions for new PhDs.
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... This report provides information to departments about which methods are already producing success and which are detrimental to success in these two areas. CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS In its site visits to 10 doctoral/postdoctoral programs, the Committee on Doctoral and Postdoctoral Study in the United States looked for features that were present in successful programs as well as for elements that were detrimental to quality education.
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