UW-Madison Working Group on Clinical/Professional Doctorates

Final Report of the Working Group on Professional Doctorates, April 4, 2008.

Meeting Notes: Sept 25/07, Nov 6/07, Dec 18/07, March 28/08.

Provost's Charge to the Working Group

Charge Memo (August 2007)
Attachments
-- Milner to Farrell memo recommending that a working group be charged with the support of the UAPC, June 5, 2007
-- Graduate School Guidelines for Process of Approving Post-baccalaureate Degrees, Approved by GFEC April 13, 2007
-- "Credential Creep", Burton Bollag, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2007 (requires CHE logon)
-- Health Professions Programs Task Force Report to the Provost, June 2005

Contact the working group chair, Jocelyn Milner, with questions or suggestions for links to add to this page.

Related documents and links that may also be of interest:

-- Council on Graduate Schools Report on Clinical/Professional Doctorates, released November 2007. Available for purchase.

-- UW worries about 'credential creep' in awarding degrees. Anita Weier, Capital Times, 10/10/2007

-- Graduate Education: The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation,
June 2007, Council on Graduate Schools Summary/Press Release, Full Report

-- Higher Learning Commission Task Force on the Professional Doctorate, June 2006

-- Doctor of Nursing Practice Roadmap Task Force Report, October 2006

-- Reclaiming Education's Doctorates: A Critique and a Proposal, L.S.Shulman, C.M.Golde, A. Conklin Bueschel,
and K.J. Garebedian, Education Researcher, April 2006