Prepare students for an academic career, contributed by Daniela Raicu, DePaul University

From CISEREUPI

• Idea: Prepare students for a doctoral degree; many students do not know what kind of jobs they can get by having a PhD and how they can differentiate themselves from students with only a Masters’ degree
• Objective: Preparing students for an academic career
• What works well:

1. Presentation of role models in academia
2. Presentation on different types of jobs with a PhD and the steps of becoming a full professor (PPT presentation on this topic; MedIX site at DePaul University offers this presentation during the first two weeks of the program)
3. Presentations by researchers from industry labs

• What doesn’t work well: N/A
• Assessment data: Student surveys showed that many students do not know that the differences between teaching versus research institutions and about possibilities of having a research job in an industrial research lab

Contributed by Daniela Raicu, DePaul University

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