The Council of Graduate Schools announced on Tuesday that it had received $2-million in grants from Pfizer Inc. and $400,000 in grants from the Ford Foundation to expand its research on doctoral-attrition rates. The council will use the grant money to widen the scope of its Ph.D. Completion Project, which studies the causes of doctoral-student attrition and tries to identify the best ways to curtail it. Until now, the project has been gathering data at 21 major research universities. With the new grants, it will expand to 32 campuses.
December 21, 2006
'Ph.D. Completion Project' Receives $2.4-Million in New Grants
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