Tracking Student Progress before and after graduation NDOGS 10 July 2015

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 researchYR of Study Learn methods1 Publish first author paper2 Attend national meeting2 Start Pharma collaboration3 Go to small focus meeting3 3 mo collab work at Pharma3 Apply for industry postdoc4 Publish second paper4 Graduate5 Annual Progress report of Billy Idol YR2, 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 paper II.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

Program # of Employment Matches # of Records Submitted % Employment Matches Brass, Woodwinds, and Percussion % Classics % German Studies % Geography % Mathematics Teaching % Romance Languages and Literature1303.3% Sociology % Computer Science & Engineering % Electrical Engineering % Cancer and Cell Biology % Biostatistics and Epidemiology % Environmental Genetics and Molecular Tox’y % Industrial Hygiene % Occupational Safety & Ergonomics2366.7% Educational Leadership1831, % Educational Studies % 788/3108 returned employment info (25.4%)

After Graduation Year of Degree Awarded # of Employment Matches # of Records Submitted % Employment Matches % % % % % % % % % % % % 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?