2015 AIDE Program Questionnaire
1. Name of doctoral program: Click here to enter text.
2. How are students typically admitted to your doctoral program? (Put an X next to all that apply.)
☐With a bachelor’s degree
☐With a master’s degree
☐From your master’s program
☐From another UIUC master’s program
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3. What are the primary factors that affect the number of students you admit each year?(Put an X next to all that apply.)
☐Faculty availability and desire to mentor doctoral students
☐Job placement prospects for new doctorates in your field
☐TA staffing needs for undergraduate courses
☐Faculty demand for research assistants
☐Availability of seats in graduate classes
☐Availability of assistantships or fellowship stipend support
☐Quality of applicant pool
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4. Considering doctoral student/faculty ratio and post-graduation job openings, what is the ideal size of your program? Please limit your response to approximately 25 words.
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5. What factors cause you to have enrollment under/over that number? Please limit your response to approximately 50 words.
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6. What is the typical form (e.g. RA, TA, GA, PGA, fellowships, traineeships, hourly, etc.) andpercentage of funding for your students? Please limit your response to approximately 50 words.
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7. Does your program offer an orientation for new doctoral students?
☐No
☐Yes, and please briefly outline the content and structure. Please limit your response to approximately 100 words. Click here to enter text.
8. What are the key milestones for students? (Put an X next to all that apply.)
☐Qualifying Exams
☐Preliminary Exams
☐Proposal Defense
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9. Ideally, what is the expected time to doctoral degree in your program (do not include time to earnthe master's degree)?
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10. Please indicate how students are provided the following information. (Put an X next to all that apply.)
a. Program Handbook:
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b. Orientation Information
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c. Annual Review Process
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d. TA Guidelines
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e. Qualifying Exam procedures
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f. Preliminary Exam procedures
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g. Proposal Defense procedures
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h. Final Exam/Final Defense procedures
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11. If additional documents containing program information are provided to students, pleaseindicate here. Please limit your response to approximately 50 words.
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12. Do your students receive training in research ethics?
☐No
☐Yes, and briefly describe the structure and content of the training. Please limit your response to approximately 100 words. Click here to enter text.
13. Describe your doctoral program’s process for conducting annual reviews of students. Please limit your response to approximately 100 words.
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14. Does the program leadership and/or faculty regularly examine the structure, contents and/orrequirements of your program? And if so, how does that occur? Please limit your response to approximately100 words.
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15. How do students become involved in the research culture in your program and thedisciplinary field more broadly (e.g., conducting research, writing grants, publishing, presenting and field or lab work)? Please limit your response to approximately100 words.
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16. How do students gain information and experience in teaching and class preparation? Please limit your response to approximately100 words.
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17. Are there other professional development opportunities provided to the students? For example, what opportunities do they have for interactions with people in industry,governmental policy and others relevant to your field? Provide examples. Please limit your response to approximately 100 words.
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18. Does your program offer doctoral students support for presenting papers or posters atconferences?
☐No
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19. If your students have received any prestigious campus or national fellowships within thelast three years that you would like to highlight, please list the names of the fellowships here. Please limit your response to approximately100 words.
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20. The AIDE Committee will use the information your program submitted via theDoctoral Recipient Placement Database. How do you obtain this placement data for yourstudents (e.g., does thedepartment collect placement data from faculty? Does your Graduate Contact obtain information from students directly)? Please limit your response to approximately 50 words.
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21. In addition to campus-wide resources, what types of job placement assistance/resources do you provide for your students (e.g., placement officer, job board, listserve, etc.)? Please limit your response to approximately100 words.
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22. Please examine the DMI data and contact DMI about anydiscrepancies or questions you have. If there are lingering issues we should know aboutplease describe them here.Please limit your response to approximately100 words.
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23. Are there any other important or unusual program characteristics/issues that you would like theAIDE Committee to know about? Please limit your response to approximately 100 words.
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24. Questions in this section are unique to each program. The items below were listed as your program’s “Areas in Need of Attention” by the 2011 Doctoral Program Assessment Committee. For each item, please indicate whether you have addressed the issue, and if so, please briefly describe how. Please limit your response to each item to approximately 100 words.
If new efforts to improve your program have been implemented since the 2011 Doctoral Program Assessment that are NOT related to the Areas in Need of Attention listed above, please summarize briefly here. Please limit your response to approximately150 words.
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