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4 HUMAN RESOURCE ISSUES
4 HUMAN RESOURCE ISSUES
Pages 18-26
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RECRUITMENT The conventional approach to recruiting consists of sending out announcements and posters to other institutions, listing teaching assistantships and fellowships in professional society publications and elsewhere, responding to inquiries, reading applications, and ' ' '- Since students commonly apply to a selecting students with the best creclent~a~s. department based on its research reputation alone, and not on other characteristics of the doctoral program, this type of passive recruiting works for programs with the best reputations.
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Former doctoral students and other faculty contacts in undergraduate programs, in particular, programs in local teaching departments, can be used effectively. The recruiting process has involved sending faculty members out to initiate contacts with many of the liberal arts colleges of the region.
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Committee Site Visit Report Paradoxically, one source of doctoral students that seems to be underutilized is the pool of mathematical sciences undergraduates at the research universities themselves. While some of the best undergraduates at a particular research university are encouraged to pursue doctoral study, there is usually no systematic recruiting of the remaining mathematical sciences undergraduates at a research university by anyone, the university's own mathematical sciences doctoral program or that of any other university.
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In successful programs, this strategy is coupled to a commitment to provide the additional support and opportunities for appropriate course work necessary to give the students a chance to succeed. Many programs, under the pressure of decreasing interest in graduate study in the mathematical sciences among domestic students and the need for teaching assistants to staff undergraduate courses, have a somewhat open admission policy.
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While this seems to be less of a problem in sciences with undergraduate laboratories, it may be a contributing cause for the decline in the number of domestic graduate students in the mathematical sciences. One of the-earliest federal programs for domestic doctoral students was the Predoctoral Fellowship Program at the NSF.
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Thus women and minority role models are scarce in the mathematical sciences. In several of the committee's site visits, graduate students, both male and female, pointed out the paucity of women on the faculty.
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Committee Site Visit Report At present several fellowship programs are directed toward women and underrepresented minority students. The NSF Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program awards a small stipend to the undergraduate school from which the fellow has graduated.
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In 199~1991, 80% of the new doctorates employed in the United States took positions in academia, and 50% of those took positions at institutions that did not offer a doctorate (McClure, 1991~. Placement would be facilitated if students were prepared by their educational experience to become effective teachers.
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In 1990~199l, 140 (20%) of the new doctorates taking jobs in the United States took non-academic positions in aovernment.
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