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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=843384721-10042007>Dear
ABD's:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=843384721-10042007>You
will be receiving a survey regarding our doctoral program about now. Please do
fill it out and return it. Our national ranking will depend on your
participation and on what you say.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=843384721-10042007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=843384721-10042007>Many
thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
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<P><FONT size=2>Steven Gould Axelrod<BR>Professor of English<BR>Director of
Graduate Studies<BR>University of California<BR>Riverside, CA 92521<BR>951 780
5653 (home phone) </FONT></P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Dallas
Rabenstein [<A href="mailto:graddean@ucr.edu"
eudora="autourl">mailto:graddean@ucr.edu</A>] <BR>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007
10:56 AM<BR>To: Deans:; NRC Program chairs:; NRC Grad Advisors:<BR>Cc: NRC
Working Group:<BR>Subject: Fwd: NRC Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs
Status Reports<BR><BR><BR>Dear Colleagues,<BR><BR>The faculty surveys for the
NRC Assessment of Doctoral Programs are <BR>now officially closed. The student
surveys are all that remain to be <BR>completed in the data collection phase.
(Some faculty will be asked <BR>to rate other graduate programs).<BR><BR>I am
forwarding the April 2nd status report of faculty participation <BR>in the NRC
assessment of doctoral programs. Our final faculty <BR>participation was
82.6%, as compared to 73.0% nationally. Faculty <BR>participation went
from 79.8% (March 26th) to 82.6% (April 2nd) - a <BR>total of 15 additional
faculty completed their questionnaire during <BR>the final week.<BR><BR>Student
surveys are scheduled to go out on April 9th. Students who <BR>have
advanced to candidacy in Economics, English, Physics and <BR>Chemical
Engineering will receive surveys.<BR><BR>Faculty selected to be raters of other
graduate programs will be <BR>notified on April 9th or soon thereafter.
NRC plans to use <BR>approximately 10,000 faculty as raters.<BR><BR>Again,
thanks for your help in achieving a high level of <BR>participation by our
faculty.<BR><BR>Dallas<BR><BR><BR><BR>><BR>>
2006 ASSESSMENT OF DOCTORATE<BR>>RESEARCH
PROGRAMS<BR>><BR>>
The Faculty
Survey<BR>>
Total Number of Faculty Released to
Date<BR>>108314<BR>>
Faculty Survey: Average Institutional Completion <BR>>Rate 73.0
%<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>* The number of faculty listed for a program
may not match the<BR>>number submitted<BR>>for several reasons (e.g.,
faculty listed in multiple programs are <BR>>only counted
once).<BR>><BR>><BR>>
<BR>>Number
<BR>> <BR>>of
Number
<BR>> Faculty Survey <BR>>Faculty
Complete %Complete<BR>>
<BR>><BR><BR>> Anthropology
<BR>>16
11
68.8<BR>> Applied Statistics
<BR>>10
7 70.0<BR>>
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
<BR>>31
22
71.0<BR>> Chemical & Environmental Engineering
<BR>>12
12 100.0<BR>>
Chemistry <BR>>25
22
88.0<BR>> Comparative Literature
<BR>>17
15
88.2<BR>> Computer Science
<BR>>22
19
86.4<BR>> Dance History
<BR>>10
6 60.0<BR>>
Economics <BR>>24
21
87.5<BR>> Electrical Engineering
<BR>>20
17
85.0<BR>> English
<BR>>25
20
80.0<BR>> Entomology
<BR>>27
24
88.9<BR>> Environmental Toxicology
<BR>>16
13
81.3<BR>> Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
<BR>>24
21
87.5<BR>> Geological Sciences
<BR>>15
13
86.7<BR>> Hispanic Studies
<BR>>8
7 87.5<BR>>
History <BR>>23
16
69.6<BR>> Mathematics
<BR>>18
13
72.2<BR>> Mechanical Engineering
<BR>>15
13
86.7<BR>> Philosophy
<BR>>19
18
94.7<BR>> Physics
<BR>>30
26
86.7<BR>> Plant Biology
<BR>>32
25
78.1<BR>> Plant Pathology
<BR>>16
13
81.3<BR>> Political Science
<BR>>14
12
85.7<BR>> Psychology
<BR>>27
23
85.2<BR>> Sociology
<BR>>21
17
81.0<BR>> Soil & Water Sciences
<BR>>12
11 91.7<BR>>
<BR>><BR><BR>> TOTAL
<BR>>529
437
82.6<BR>><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Dallas L. Rabenstein<BR>Dean, Graduate Division
and<BR>Distinguished Professor of Chemistry<BR>University of
California<BR>Riverside, CA 92521<BR>Phone: 909-787-4302<BR>FAX:
909-787-2238</DIV><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP><FONT face="Monotype Corsiva, Zapf Chancery" color=#000080
size=5>Tina Feldmann<BR></FONT>Administrative Assistant -- Graduate
Studies<BR>Department of English<BR>University of California,
Riverside<BR>Riverside, CA 92521-0323<BR>office: (951)
827-1454<BR>FAX: (951) 827-3967<BR></P></BODY></HTML>