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The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers
- Chronicle of Higher Education , September 2007. "[F]or many of today's graduate students, the future could not look much bleaker. They see long periods of training, a shortage of academic jobs, and intense competition for research grants looming ahead of them. 'They get a sense that this is a really frustrating career path,' says Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. So although the operating assumption among many academic leaders is that the nation needs more scientists, some of brightest students in the country are demoralized and bypassing scientific careers."
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UCSD Graduate Student Data
- Detailed information on how UCSD Ph.D.s have fared in the labor force, including breakdowns by department. An example that should be followed by all institutions!
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Graduate School and the Job Market: A Survey of Young Geoscientists
- How bad IS the job market in the geosciences? The authors of this interesting article suggest that the more important questions is: " How bad do you THINK it is? " They present the results of a survey administered to over 500 geoscientists who were asked for their perceptions about the reseach job market, graduate school, and their preparation in science. The authors note that perceptions of the job market are highly correlated to specific sub-disciplines of science - broad aggregate numbers of either job supply or demand may be irrelevent to an individual's chances of landing a job.
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Mathematicians and the Market
- The stats are all for mathematicians, but the trends and ideas apply to all the sciences. A comprehensive overview of the job market for mathematicians, plus ideas on steps toward a solution. From the November 1997 issue of the Notices of the AMS.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Projections for prospects in a wide variety of careers.
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Nose to the Grindstone
- "A new National Science Foundation report indicates that scientists and engineers in education work harder than those in industry and much harder than their counterparts in the government."
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How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers
- by Eric Weinstein, Project on the Economics of Advanced Training, Harvard University / National Bureau for Economic Research. Working Draft.
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The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
- US Census, July, 2002. " This report illustrates the economic value of an education, that is, the added value of a high school diploma or college degree. It explores the relationship between educational attainment and earnings and demonstrates how the relationship has changed over the last 25 years. Additionally, it provides, by level of education, synthetic estimates of average total earnings adults are likely to accumulate over the course of their working lives. "
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Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists (2000)
- The National Academy's report on the need for more biomedical and behavioral science Ph.D.s. In brief, no increase in Ph.D. production is seen as needed.
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The Computing Research Association's Taulbee Survey
- " A principal source of information on the production and employment of Ph.D.s and faculty in computer science and computer engineering in North America. Includes data on degree production, student enrollment and faculty with gender and ethnic breakdowns and salary information.
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S&E Ph.D. Unemployment Trends: Cause for Alarm?
- 1997 NSF Issue Brief. " Over the last two decades, the Ph.D. unemployment rate has remained below the general population rate and has exhibited less fluctuation than the rates for other educational levels. "
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1998 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report)
- Faculty salary and unemployment numbers for Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences from the Notices of the AMS . PDF file (requires Adobe Acrobat)
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Coping with Conflicting Data: The Employment Status of Recent Science and Engineering Ph.D.s
- Peter D. Syverson, Council of Graduate Schools. " [P]rofessional societies are reporting double-digit unemployment figures at the same time that the NSF is reporting rates of less than 3 percent.... how can there be such a discrepancy? "
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Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Employment Projections
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Science and Engineering Indicators, 1998
- A report by the National Science Board on indicators of the state of science and engineering in the United States.
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Declining Student Numbers Worry German Mathematics Departments
- by Allyn Jackson, Notices of the AMS , March, 2000. " In the United States, shrinking student numbers in undergraduate mathematics programs have become commonplace. Figures from the AMS-IMS-MAA Annual Survey, showing that the number of juniors and seniors majoring in mathematics declined by about 20 percent between 1992 and 1998, will elicit little surprise. What is less well known in the U.S. is that similar declines are occurring elsewhere. " Requires Adobe Acrobat.
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Voices: Foreign Graduate Students
- symmetry - March 2005 - "Should the United States be concerned with the drop in applications and enrollment of foreign science graduate students? If so, why?"
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Education and Employment of Biological and Medical Scientists: Data from National Surveys
- FASEB, 2007. "The figures in the following presentation are offered as an introduction to the major sources of nationally representative data on education and employment of biological and medical scientists. We hope that this compilation of graphs will foster an informed discussion of this topic. We do not seek to be exhaustive in our presentation of data, but rather to offer a starting point from which interested parties can pursue additional analyses in greater depth and detail."
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What's Happening in the Labor Market for Recent Science and Engineering Ph.D. Recipients?
- 1997 NSF issue brief revealing low unemployment rates for Ph.D.s but high " Involuntary Out of Field " rates.
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Latest Employment Data for Physicists from the AIP
- " These reports highlight the qualitative changes and gradual improvements in the initial employment of recent degree recipients. They document the salaries earned by experienced physicists across employment sectors and degree levels, the size of the academic workforce as well as the availability of openings and profiles of new hires. "
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Catching Up in International Grad Students
- Inside Higher Ed, Aug 2007. "Graduate schools are reporting a continued rebound in applications from and admissions offers to those from outside the United States, but levels at most institutions still have not reached 2003 levels, according to a report being released today by the Council of Graduate Schools."
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Open Letter to Harold Varmus, Director of the NIH
- by Barry Hardy. An open letter describing problems with the NIH's system for funding young investigators.
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For Job Hunters in Academe, 1999 Offers Signs of an Upturn
- by Denise K. Manger, The Chronicle of Higher Education , January 29, 1999. " Flip through the employment ads of almost any professional journal these days, and you'll find something academe hasn't seen much of in years: tenure-track jobs. "
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Virtual Center for Research on Graduate Education
- A web site devoted to research on graduate education, containing information both on enrollment and degree trends and on policy issues in graduate education.
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Is There a Ph.D. Glut? Is that the Right Question?
- Charlotte Kuh, NRC. " I would say that the right question is not: Is there a Ph.D. glut and what should we do about it? Rather, the question is broader: how are research and education to be accomplished in a time of sharply constricted external resources and how do we treat students fairly in these times? "
