Anne MacLachlan
Center for Studies in Higher Education, University
of California, Berkeley
Abstract:
This talk analyzes the graduate school experience of women and minority Ph.D. recipients from UC Berkeley earned between 1980 and 1990 in SMET fields, and links this experience to career development. How graduate school is experienced, what kind of mentoring one receives, the degree of induction into the discipline/profession all play a role in whether one remains in the program or leaves. It also plays a role in choice of postdoc and subsequent career decisions. Apart from looking at the graduate school/career connection, solutions to deficits will be presented arising from both obvious structural problems, known effective programs and recommendations made by the interviewees themselves. A bibliography of career development resources will be distributed. This talk is part of a larger Spencer funded project entitled, A Longitudinal Study of Minorty Ph.D.s from 1980 to 1990: Progress and Outcomes in Science and Engineering at the University of California during Graduate School and Professional Life.