March 19-20, 2003

National Science Foundation

Arlington, VA

 

Agenda and List of Speakers

 

Wednesday, March 19, Room 375

 

7:30 am
Light Refreshments and Registration

 

 

8:00-8:30 am

Welcome:  Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation

 

 

8:30 am-12:30 pm

Session I:  Forces to Consider:  Issues Affecting Graduate Education in the Future

 
 

8:30 am
Interdisciplinarity as a Component of the Reform of American Graduate Education,

Irwin Feller, Senior Visiting Scientist, AAAS

 

 

9:00 am

The Globalization of Science and the Scientific Workforce of the Future, Kerri-Ann Jones, NSF

 

 

9:30 am

The Information Technology Revolution and Its Impact on Graduate Education, Kim Baldridge, UCSD and the San Diego Super Computer Center

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Who Is Coming to Graduate School? Changes in Undergraduate Education, Clifford Adelman, Department of Education

 

 

11:00 am

The Changing Economics of Graduate Education,

Richard Freeman, Harvard University

 

 

11:30 am

The Industrial Employer’s Perspective on Future Scientific Workforce Needs, Joseph Williamson, EDS

 

 

Discussion

Nancy Sung, Burroughs Wellcome

 

 

12:30-2:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

2:00-5:00 pm

Session II:  A Perspective from Leaders of National Initiatives
 
Moderator:  Debra Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools

 

 

Wyn Jennings, IGERT, NSF

Jody Nyquist, Re-envisioning the Ph.D., U. Washington

Les Sims, Preparing Future Faculty, Council of Graduate Schools

Michael Teitelbaum, Sloan Professional Master’s Program, Sloan            Foundation

Don Thompson, AGEP, NSF

George Walker, Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate

Bettina Woodford, Woodrow Wilson Responsive Ph.D.

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Breakout Groups

 

6:30 pm

Dinner (By Invitation Only):

Bioterrorism: Impact on Research and Training,

Gail Cassell, Vice President for Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Research Scholar in Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly and Company

 

 

Thursday, March 20, Room 1235

 

7:30 am

Light Refreshments

 

 

8:00 – 10:45 am

Session III:  Successful Innovators

 

Moderator:  Jim Lightbourne, Acting Director, Division of Graduate Education, NSF

 

 

Caroline Haythornthwait, Library and Information Science,                      University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

Donna Llewellyn, GK-12, Georgia Tech

Carol Lynch, Certificate programs, U. Colorado

Peter May, VIGRE, University of Chicago

Katherine Newman, IGERT, Harvard University

DeWitt Sumners, Burroughs Wellcome Interfaces

            PMMB, Florida State University

Bill Wiggenhorn, Cigna, formerly Motorola University

 

 

 

9:30 am
Break

 
 

10:00 am

Breakout Groups

 

11:00 am

Closing Discussions

 

Maresi Nerad, Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate             Education, University of Washington

 

Discussion of Reports from Breakout Groups from Sessions II and III.

 

12:00 noon

Adjourn

 

The Program is sponsored by the NSF Division of Graduate Education with support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the CGS/NSF Dean-in-Residence Program.

 

 

If you have questions about the workshop, please contact the following people:

 

Joan Lorden

NSF/CGS Graduate Dean in Residence

Division of Graduate Education

National Science Foundation

jlorden@nsf.gov

(703) 292-7468 

Jennifer Slimowitz

AAAS/NSF Fellow

Division of Graduate Education

National Science Foundation

jslimowi@nsf.gov

(703) 292-8121