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Graduate and Professional Education: Mapping the Future UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Graduate and Professional Education: Mapping the Future Reprinted from the Pitt Chronicle series 2007– 09 The role of a top research university is not only the creation and communication of knowledge, but also the preparation of the next generation of leaders in their fields. Graduate and professional education is the most critical part of that effort. This series was created by the Office of the Provost of the University of Pittsburgh to illustrate the value of graduate and professional education and to show the many ways in which it is being transformed at Pitt. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Graduate and Professional Education: Mapping the Future Inside Pitt Has Impressive History in Graduate Research Advanced education at Pitt is designed to provide innovators for all fields . 1 Doctoral Students Without Borders To train scientists of the future, Pitt rethinks what a graduate program in the life sciences should be . 3 A New Vision for the Future at Katz A revitalized MBA program emphasizes more experience-based learning, entrepreneurship, value chain management, and a global perspective . 8 The Next Great Thinkers What does it take to create a new generation of the professoriate? . 15 The Art of Mentoring Training tomorrow’s professors requires passion, people skills, and time . 19 continued GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: MAPPING THE FUTURE The Explorers Humanities and social sciences PhD students cross traditional boundaries, break new ground . 24 Pitt Law Is Building Momentum for Its Future Law school leverages its strengths, draws students from across the country . 29 Creative Problem Solving Across Disciplines Physical sciences and engineering graduate programs approach research from multiple perspectives . 35 School of Social Work Reimagines Its PhD Program School is embarking upon a no-holds-barred effort to secure top doctoral students and train them in leading-edge research . 40 Pitt Doctoral Students Learn the Art of Teaching Research and teaching are intertwined and the best among us are skilled at both . 46 GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: MAPPING THE FUTURE • 1 Pitt Chronicle December 10, 2007 Pitt Has Impressive History in Graduate Research Advanced education at Pitt is designed to provide innovators for all fields By James V. Maher Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor As one of the nation’s best public research universities, the University of Pittsburgh takes very seriously its mission to offer educational programs that will prepare the leadership for a broad range of the nation’s institutions and for the practice of its professions, to provide high-quality undergraduate programs and to run research programs that will drive the development of human understanding and the economy. In all of these endeavors, graduate— and graduate-level professional—education plays a very important role. The complexity of graduate education makes it difficult to talk about this critical endeavor in easy sound bites. Through this opening article and through subsequent articles in this series on Graduate and Professional Education at the University of University, with the largest number of those Pittsburgh, I hope that the richness and value students in the School of Arts and Sciences. of those programs become apparent. [see accompanying graph] As is true of most Advanced education at Pitt is designed of the best graduate and professional programs to provide innovators for all fields. In science, in this country, admissions, curriculum, and engineering, and technology, we seek to drive other programmatic decisions are determined the deepening of our understanding of nature by the faculty of the graduate programs along with the growth and competitiveness of themselves. That lack of a centralized structure our economy. Enhanced creativity in the social means that our graduate education can be both sciences and humanities lays the foundation highly specialized and multidimensional, for greater understanding across cultural, eco- always directed at the perceived needs of the nomic, and political boundaries. Leadership discipline or profession. in business, health sciences, public affairs, Describing such a multidimensional law, and government—along with leadership enterprise in sweeping terms is a challenge. in academia—strengthens the institutional Future stories in this series will delve into framework of both private and public sectors specifics of some interesting examples of of our country and our world. graduate education programs. For now, while acknowledging the inherent fallibility of any three Pitt alumni honored as Nobel Laureates Graduate and Professional imposed taxonomy for categorizing graduate received their advanced degrees in these Education at Pitt education, let me propose two very broad programs: Philip Showalter Hench, who won Looking more closely at how that groupings to describe the numerous specific the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1950, earned advanced education is carried out here, we programs in which students at the University his Doctor of Medicine degree at our School of see that, like many of the country’s very best pursue graduate education: Medicine; and Wangari Matthai, who won the public research universities, only a little more • Master’s and professional education Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, earned her Master than half of the degrees granted from Pitt are at • PhD education of Science in biological sciences in the School the undergraduate level. Graduate and profes- Through master’s and professional educa- of Arts and Sciences. sional programs here produce 42 percent of all tion, we develop highly skilled professionals Our third Nobel Laureate, Paul Lauterbur, Pitt degrees. We are consistently one of the top operating at the frontiers of that profession’s earned his PhD in chemistry, again in the 25 producers of doctoral degrees among public practice. Throughout Pennsylvania, alumni School of Arts and Sciences. Through the PhD, universities in the United States and in the top of Pitt’s master’s and professional education the Doctor of Philosophy degree, we educate 30 among both public and private universities. programs serve as doctors, corporate leaders, people who are expected to extend human This is an expensive form of education for the lawyers, engineers, librarians and information knowledge. This mission is slightly different University, but it is an expense we embrace science specialists, teachers, pharmacists, from the mission of graduate professional because of our understanding of our mission social workers, occupational therapists….. The education, for with the PhD we prepare people and the value of graduate education. list goes on and on. We meet the region’s, the to meet needs that we may not yet be aware of. The students in our graduate programs country’s, and the world’s needs through these This is truly education for a future world. With are educated by faculty in 14 schools of the specifically designed programs. Two of the PhD education, we prepare research scientists 2 • GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: MAPPING THE FUTURE and engineers, world-class scholars, and those Measuring Success the highest acclaim in their fields by being researchers and scholars who often go on to On the whole, then, we have very competi- elected to the Academies, and faculty who are become the faculty of colleges and universities. tive raw material to work with as we develop awarded named professorships or who have Our tradition of strong disciplinary programs graduate programs: strong students and excep- served as college deans or presidents. develops graduates who are professors around tional faculty. We match that raw material with For example: the country or who are leading researchers significant University investments. And so how • General Roscoe Robinson Jr., who at industrial laboratories and government do we know if the investments are worth it? earned his master’s degree in international laboratories or who contribute in many ways What are we—and by ‘we’ I’m referring not so affairs at GSPIA, was the first African to the development of human understanding much even to the University as to our broader American to achieve the rank of 4-star general of the fields they’ve chosen. communities—getting in return? in the U.S. Army. This University, one of the country’s First of all, as noted earlier, we are pro- • John A. Swanson, who received his leaders in research, must also be a leader in ducing students with degrees demonstrating PhD from Pitt’s School of Engineering, is an producing the most highly qualified graduates advanced skills. The largest proportion of our acclaimed inventor, the founder of ANSYS, Inc., to work in these research disciplines in the graduate and professional students graduate and a philanthropist. His $41.3 million of sup- future. In the overall approach to graduate with master’s degrees (67 percent in 2007), port to the University’s School of Engineering, education at Pitt, we recognized that our PhD and many of those students with advanced announced last week, is the largest individual students, who are earning that very advanced degrees are settling across Pennsylvania, contribution made in the history of Pitt. degree by working in a pioneering area of providing exactly the kind of professional • Sung-Hou Kim, a prominent graduate the field with faculty here, are working at the needs the Commonwealth demands for growth of our Department of Chemistry in Arts and intersection of older questions that may have and development. In addition to our master’s- Sciences, heads the structural biology group at come from different fields in those strong level graduates, graduates of our professional the University of California, Berkeley, and led disciplinary programs. programs that are not called master’s degree the team that mapped the protein universe. And so we have, in the last 10 years, programs (such as those in law, medicine, and • Herb Boyer, of our biological sciences instituted a number of interdisciplinary pharmacy, among others) have a strong impact department in the Arts and Sciences, is the degrees at the graduate level to link important on the region’s health and infrastructure.
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