Tracking Student Progress

before and aftergraduation

NDOGS10 July 2015

Before Graduation

Before Graduation

o Who has never heard of IDPs and/or myIDP?

o How many have integrated IDPs into their programs?

o How many have a University/College mandate to do so?

o How many are using myIDP exclusively?

Before Graduation

o Meetings with mentor(s)

o Annual or semi-annual thesis committee meetings

o Work-in-Progress presentations to peers/faculty

o Individual Development Plans

Before Graduation

Career Goal: Pharma research

YR of Study

Learn methods 1

Publish first author paper 2

Attend national meeting 2

Start Pharma collaboration 3

Go to small focus meeting 3

3 mo collab work at Pharma 3

Apply for industry postdoc 4

Publish second paper 4

Graduate 5

Annual Progress report of Billy IdolYR2, Department of Pharmacology

1. Describe research progress made by student

2. Discuss the IDP goals proposed by the student for this year

I. Publish first author paperII. Attend national meeting

3. Recommendations for the student

Before Graduation

o How do you plan to use IDPs?

o What other tools do you use to track/encourage student goals and progress?

o Do you have an institutional plan or is this program-by-program?

o Can you report on faculty and student buy-in yet?

After Graduation

o Where are graduates and what are they doing?

o Are they doing what we trained them for?

o Are they using the skills & knowledge we gave them?

o Could we have better prepared graduates for the careers they ended up in? Do we need to alter our curriculum?

o How do you catch up with decades of graduates?

After Graduation

A Grad School experiment in “Google stalking”

As part of graduate program review, we gave (securely) info on 3108 graduates, from 16 degree programs, to a vendor who uses public data searches to find alumni.

The company provided outcomes ~2-3 weeks later. Outcomes were contact info, current employment.

Total cost ~$1000 (only charged for those found)

After Graduation

Program# of Employment

Matches# of Records

Submitted% Employment

MatchesBrass, Woodwinds, and Percussion 62 406 15.3%Classics 7 40 17.5%German Studies 9 50 18.0%Geography 34 82 41.5%Mathematics Teaching 11 87 12.6%Romance Languages and Literature 1 30 3.3%Sociology 25 77 32.5%Computer Science & Engineering 192 463 41.5%Electrical Engineering 181 416 43.5%Cancer and Cell Biology 18 51 35.3%Biostatistics and Epidemiology 16 94 17.0%Environmental Genetics and Molecular Tox’y 7 16 43.8%Industrial Hygiene 10 39 25.6%Occupational Safety & Ergonomics 2 3 66.7%Educational Leadership 183 1,113 16.4%Educational Studies 30 141 21.3%

788/3108 returned employment info (25.4%)

After Graduation

Year of Degree

Awarded

# of Employme

nt Matches

# of Records Submitte

d

% Employme

nt Matches

2003 34 177 19.2%2004 45 194 23.2%2005 58 185 31.4%2006 70 328 21.3%2007 50 269 18.6%2008 77 286 26.9%2009 68 301 22.6%2010 81 297 27.3%2011 61 267 22.8%2012 69 264 26.1%2013 93 274 33.9%2014 82 266 30.8%

Surprisingly insensitive to year of graduation

After Graduation

Employment data was hardest to find. Yield higher for finding addresses (1174, 38%) . International alumni almost invisible.

Next analysis is comparison with Alumni Foundation database for accuracy and completeness.

Lesson learned

Still need to contact alumni to get the most complete employment dataset, but fast/affordable cyber sampling of alumni can return a sizeable subset of employment data.

Bruce Weinberg will tell us how to do this right tonight…

After Graduation

o Do you collaborate with your alumni foundation to track graduates?

o What are your effective touch points with alumni (letters, program updates, brochures, past mentor)?

o What works? Are you satisfied?