The Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) is a multi-year research and action project to support departments' efforts to more purposefully structure their doctoral programs. We will work closely with the disciplinary communities, as well as selected departments, in six fields of study. We will foster discipline-based conceptual work and design experiments in a small number of selected departments. Carnegie will collect, examine and disseminate findings from this significant discussion and related experiments.
The Carnegie Foundation believes that it is timely to return to first principles, and ask "What is the purpose of doctoral education?" Taken broadly, we believe the answer to be, to educate and prepare those to whom we can entrust the vigor, quality, and integrity of the field. We call such a person a "steward of the discipline."
The initiative has three interacting elements: a conceptual analysis of doctoral education, design experiments in departments, and research and dissemination. We have selected six fields of study for the CID: chemistry, education (educational psychology and curriculum and instruction), English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Faculty and departmental leadership in the disciplines is a crucial focus of the initiative.
Partner and Allied Departments have been selected for the CID in chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neurosciences.
