Formal funding for the PFF initiative has concluded. A major evaluation
study is currently being completed.
Many of the participating institutions have incorporated PFF activities
into their ongoing programs for graduate students. AAC&U is
continuing its efforts to build shared understanding between its
member campuses and faculty responsible for graduate education about
the roles new faculty assume in providing a liberal education to
today's undergraduates.
The partner disciplinary societies remain active in sponsoring
PFF reforms through their society meetings. The Council of Graduate
Schools continues to provide a community for graduate deans committed
to PFF ideals.
Resources on Preparing Future Faculty
New AAC&U Work on Preparing the Faculty of the Future
AAC&U is now cooperating with the Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). The CID is a multi-year research
and action program to support departments' efforts to more purposefully
structure their doctoral programs. With a major grant from the Atlantic
Philanthropic Services, the CID is working in six fields of study:
chemistry, education (educational psychology and curriculum and
instruction), English, history, mathematics, and neurosciences.
Approximately fifty departments at over thirty major graduate institutions
are involved.
AAC&U is working with the CID to a) connect discipline-based
change in graduate education to important reforms in liberal education
such as civic engagement and undergraduate research, and b) to help
articulate the role of graduate education in preparing scholars
who will take responsibility for the quality and vitality of students'
liberal education.
For further information on the CID, contact George E. Walker, Senior
Scholar, Carnegie Foundation (walker@carnegiefoundation.org)
and for AAC&U activities related to the CID, contact Carol Geary
Schneider, AAC&U (cgs@aacu.org).
