1. A Research Agenda for Graduate Education Brian S. Mitchell CGS Dean-in-Residence Division of Graduate Education National Science Foundation

2. National Research Council: Research Universities and the Future of America (2012) Improve … alignment with both student career opportunities and national interests. American Chemical Society: Advancing Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences (2013) Current educational opportunities … do not provide sufficient preparation for [their] careers after graduate school. National Institutes of Health: Biomedical Research Working Group Report (2012) … graduate programs must accommodate a greater range of anticipated careers for students. University of Washington: Social-Science Ph.D.'s — Five+ Years Out (2007) Offer students resources for useful information about non-faculty careers... Council of Graduate Schools: Pathways Through Graduate School and Into Careers (2012) …the development of additional competencies will help prepare graduates for the broader array of careers and occupations... The Old Argument

3. “… in most branches of science there is a need to fit the pattern of graduate education more accurately to the kinds of work on which graduates are eventually engaged. At present, the academic interests of supervisors and the traditions of an over- rigid curriculum are too often dominant.” “Are Graduate Students Worth Keeping?” Nature, 225, 985 (1970)