Friday, November 30, 2007
What do you love about NU's grad programs? How could we improve?
I'm serving on the re-accreditation committee focusing on graduate education. Part of our charge is to evaluate what we are doing well and where we can improve these programs, so I wanted to ask you, the graduate and professional students who are in the midst of these programs, what you think. You can reply to this thread on the blog, or directly to me. Tell me what you think: What are we doing well in the graduate programs at Northeastern?How do we know that we are do it well?What is distinctive about graduate education at Northeastern?What could we do better? How?Thanks for your help!Tammy Hartke, VP for Academic Affairs
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I think the best way to improve graduate education is the provide graduate level courses! Seems intuitive, no? While courses taught mostly for undergraduates have been helpful to me, it can't compare to intensive graduate level work of a full course (not a Seminar). Graduate students often complain "I'm not here to teach, I'm here to do research!" And while that may be true of science students, we are also here to learn! The fact that there is not a SINGLE graduate course available to me in my department in my field is a huge disappointment to me.
-Kristen Severi, Department of Biology, PhD Student
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