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National Institute for Science Education (NISE)
Graduate Forum, June 29-30, 1998

graphic from NISE An NSF-sponsored, National Institute for Science Education (NISE) Graduate Forum, was held June 29-30 at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel in Arlington VA. This forum featured promising practices in graduate education in the United States and alternative strategies for successfully implementing such practices. It is one of a number of NSF supported initiatives intended to improve data and information about science and engineering graduate education in the United States. Dr. Bordogna (Deputy Director, NSF) was one of the opening speakers at the event, presenting an NSF overview as well as Dr. Eamon Kelly, new Chair of the National Science Board.

The Forum was organized by the University of Wisconsin Madison Graduate School and NISE (an NSF-funded Institute). The NISE committee that worked on the planning and execution of the Forum was assisted not only by faculty and staff on the Madison campus, but also by individuals from NSF, the Council of Graduate Schools, the American Association of Universities, the National Research Council, and a number of faculty from around the country.

The Forum was organized around two sets of conversations. The first set featured practices for strengthening graduate education in science and engineering at the individual, departmental, institutional, and interinstitutional levels. The second set focused on strategies for initiating and implementing changes and innovations. Participants were invited to compare and contrast models of change and to describe alternate strategies for serving educational infrastructures, businesses/industries, students, and society. NSF program officers were intended to be both a primary audience and a primary set of participants. Participants in these ongoing dialogues were invited to address two or more of the following themes: promoting inclusiveness and diversity, enhancing student and faculty teaching and learning, strengthening research, and optimizing the use of resources. The materials produced for and during the meeting will be used to create a synthesis document that will integrate the structured conversations engendered by this conference.

For further information, you may contact Dr. Alan Rapoport, Division of Science Resources Studies, Executive Secretary, Interdirectorate Graduate Education Group, National Science Foundation.


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