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Recruiting and Training Future Scientists:
How Policy Shapes the Mission of Graduate Education
no. 107 - June 2003

A Merrill Center publication
on the Research Mission of Public Universities

Table of Contents
MASC Report No. 107

Introduction
by Mabel L. Rice, Director, Merrill Advanced Studies Center, University of Kansas

Executive Summary

Keynote Address- Day 1
Debra Stewart
President, Council of Graduate Schools
Policy Issues and Institutional Responses: The Graduate Dean as
the Twenty-first Century Janus

Response to the Keynote Address
Robert E. Barnhill
President, Center for Research, University of Kansas
Is Academic Research Sustainable?

First Panel of Researchers
Dan Monaghan
Professor of Pharmacology, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Unselling Graduate School

Janice Buss
Professor and Director, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Graduate Program,
Iowa State University
Why Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Attract Great Students

John Colombo
Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School,
University of Kansas
Efficiency in Doctoral Training

Panel of Research / Graduate Administrators
R.W. Trewyn
Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, Kansas State University and
President, Research Foundation at Kansas State University
Recruiting and Training Future Scientists: Converting Intellectual
Capital into Intellectual Property

Jim Coleman
Vice Provost for Research, University of Missouri-Columbia
Creating Waves of Change: How is the Bayh-Dole Act Shaping
the Landscape of Graduate Education?

Ellen Weissinger
Executive Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Diffusing Graduate Reform Initiatives in the Sciences: How Might "Institutionalization" Really Work?

Panel of Graduate School Administrators
Suzanne Ortega
Vice Provost for Advanced Studies and Dean of the Graduate School,
University of Missouri-Columbia
Projects, Process and Pipelines: Challenges to Enhancing the Scientific Labor Force

John E. Mayfield
Associate Dean of the Graduate College, Iowa State University
The Impact of Policy on Interdisciplinary Graduate Education at
Iowa State University

Keynote Address - Day 2
Martha Crago
President, Canadian Association of Graduate Studies
Good News, Bad News: Graduate Studies and Research in the
Canadian Context

Second Panel of Researchers / Mentors
Jeffrey P. Katz
The Payless Shoe Source Professor of Business, and Director of the Center for Leadership,
Kansas State University
Recruiting and Training Business-Savvy Scientists:
A Reflection on the Changing Policy of Graduate Education

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Associate Professor of Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Integrating Research and Education: Moving from Individual Faculty Initiatives to Institutionalization

Kim A. Wilcox
Professor, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing and
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas
Victim of Success: A Disciplinary Case Study

Reaction and Conference Summary
Martha Crago
President, Canadian Association of Graduate Studies

List of Participants

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