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• W283654829 abstract "Abstract Since the 1960s, the attrition rate of doctoral students has consistently been estimated at 50 percent nationwide. Explanations include: lax admissions standards, poor advising, student misunderstanding about the nature of graduate education, the process of graduate education itself and lack of community. In 1999, to address the problem of lack of community, a Research Support Group was formed at Purdue University. Using a networking mentoring/learning communities model, the pilot program sought to provide support and guidance for doctoral students whose progress on their dissertations bad stalled. This paper presents an overview of the program; some preliminary outcome data; a discussion of the programs effectiveness, foregrounding the voices of the participants; and some projections for the future. This article should be of interest to those responsible for student retention or planning to pursue their own degrees. Since the 1960s, the attrition rate of doctoral students has consistently been estimated at 50 percent nationwide (Lovitts zoi; Bowen and Rudenstine 1992; Garcia 1987). The attrition rate for female students is estimated to be much higher, as they experience what is termed a leaky pipeline at every phase of their education (Lovitts 2001; Martin 2ooo; National Academy of Sciences 2ooo; National Council for Research on Women 2001). The costs are measured not only in terms of the toll that failure to complete takes on the many students involved, but also in terms of costs to the university in lost faculty time, and doctoral programs whose very existence is threatened by being deemed unnecessary and/or ineffective (Schmidt 1996, 1997) Explanations for the high attrition rate include: lax admissions standards, poor advising, student misunderstanding about the nature of graduate education, the process of graduate education itself, and lack of community. As it is presently constructed, graduate education is a system of filters designed to weed out the undeserving. However, Lovitts (2ooi) argues that it is not primarily the background characteristics students bring with them to the university that affect their outcomes, but rather what happens to them after they arrive. She maintains that the causes of attrition are deeply embedded in the organizational culture of graduate schools, as well as the structure and process of graduate education. Several studies do indicate that attrition is more closely linked to the lack of support systems than to academic factors (Bowen and Rudenstine 1992; Council of Graduate Schools 1991; Garcia 1987). Despite these findings, few if any formal support systems exist within departments to counteract the isolation that doctoral students-however bright, knowledgeable, and hardworking-often experience, especially during the dissertation phase of their education. Unless and until such support systems for doctoral students are put into place, it is impossible to determine with any degree of certainty whether or not it is, indeed, only the undeserving who are failing to complete their programs. The strong possibility now exists that many capable, deserving students are also failing to complete their programs. When doctoral students choose to abandon their programs, the absence of community is one of the determining factors in that decision (Lovitts 2001; Miller and Irby 1999). The following describes the development of a pilot program that has the potential to determine if the creation of Research Support Groups for doctoral students, housed within their schools and departments, will reduce their attrition rate nationwide. Background of the Research Support Group In 1999, to address lack of community as one possible source of the high attrition rate for doctoral students, the author, who had already completed her Ph.D., formed a Research Support Group at Purdue University. The model that was developed was based in part on the learning communities' model (see Shapiro and Levine 1999). …" @default.
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• W283654829 title "Rebuilding Community: A Pilot Program for Decreasing Doctoral Student Attrition." @default.
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