The Future of Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences: What is Really Best for Students?

摘要

The new President of the American Chemical Society, Bassam Shakhashiri, has designated the ACS Presidential Commission on Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences. Over the next six to eight months, the Commission will digest what it has already heard in the areas discussed here. It will hear much more through listening sessions, correspondence, and its own topical working groups, which include many contributors beyond the members of the Commission. The task is like looking into a kaleidoscope. The pieces can produce many different patterns, indeed, a continuous range of patterns. How can we find the most coherent, most functional part of that spectrum, best supporting the long-term well-being of our graduates? Imagination, thought, and sound judgment will surely be required.