AAU PhD Education Initiative
The overarching objective of the AAU PhD Education Initiative is to change the established culture surrounding doctoral education at AAU institutions by promoting more student-centered doctoral education at AAU universities by making diverse PhD career pathways visible, valued, and viable.
As Duke’s lead on data transparency, we committed to:
Driving Institutional Change. Influence the culture and behavior at the department level to provide PhD students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to be successful in careers both within and beyond academia.
Promoting Data Transparency. Identify institutional policies and practices to make PhD program data—including data about the career pathways and employment trends of their PhD alumni—widely available.
Implementing Effective Strategies. Highlight and encourage effective university, disciplinary society, and federal agency strategies and programs.
The formal announcement can be found here.
Founded in 1900, the AAU consists of 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. Its member institutions award nearly half of all U.S. doctoral degrees.
