Graduate Admissions and Retention Research Project
This project focuses on holistic practices to increase diversity and retention in physics graduate programs.
The team has studied current admission and retention across the United States, and offered targeted interventions and tools that aid programs in using more holistic measures. The goal of this project is to increase access to, and retention of, women and excluded identity groups in graduate physics programs.
Key Parts of the Project
Holistic Practice for Faculty
60-90 minute workshops and webinars have been created to train groups of faculty on various holistic practices including the legal landscape of admissions, how to use GRE-scores, how to create a rubric for making graduate admissions decisions, identifying non-cognitive qualities in graduate applications and induction practices.
Non-Cognitive Assessment
Pilot testing is in progress to establish validity and reliability of this new instrument.
Interviews with faculty and students
The goal of these interviews is to determine faculty and student attitudes towards a variety of recruitment, admissions, and retention practices.
Highlights
- RIT wins NSF grant to transform physics graduate admissions and retention:
Casey Miller champions accessible, inclusive and supportive practices (1/17/2017) - Casey Miller and Julie Posselt outline recent changes by institutions with respect to GRE’s and graduate admissions.
It’s time for the talk (5/7/2018) - Lindsay Owens discusses her research (The Ideal Physics Graduate Student) with Provost Jeremy Haefner at 5th Annual CASTLE Symposium
