January 2010: Special Session: Longitudinal Study of Astronomy Grad
Students
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The purpose of this session is to make attendees aware of the status of the
longitudinal study of astronomy graduate students. AIP recently completed data
collection for the first phase of this study, which has been jointly funded by
AAS and AIP. The project, which began in 2007, was the result of
recommendations made at the 2003 Women in Astronomy Conference. Eventually,
the study will track astronomy graduate students over the course of several
years. The study has several purposes: to collect data on people who obtain
graduate degrees in astronomy, to compare attrition rates for men and women,
to collect data on people who leave the field of astronomy, and to collect
data on astronomers who work outside the traditional employment sectors of
academe and the observatories. During the first wave of data collection, we
received more than 1100 responses that are useable for the analyses.
Approximately 700 men and more than 400 women responded, representing 148
different graduate programs. Findings from the first survey will be discussed
at the session..
Special session presentations by
Patricia Knezek and Rachel Ivie can be downloaded below:
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