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Vocabulary
NRC Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs at CU-Boulder
Vocabulary
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Program – A doctoral program at an
institution. Can be but need not be a department. Must have students,
have an identifiable faculty, and have awarded 5 or more PhD’s 2001-02
through 2005-06. We decide what’s a program, and how to name it.
Programs will be listed by NRC with ratings and other quantitative data.
Examples: EBIO, History, Neuroscience
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Field – One of 62 discipline/research
focuses listed in the
NRC taxonomy. Named by NRC. Examples:
Cell and Developmental Biology, Anthropology. Also known as “NRC field.”
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Primary field – The single NRC field
associated with a program. Program data (ratings, etc.) will be listed
under this field in NRC publications. Must come from the list of 62 NRC
fields.
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“Other fields” – Additional NRC fields
associated with a program. Programs will be listed for cross-referencing
only under these additional fields. Example: IPHY’s primary field is
Physiology, and their results will be listed under Physiology. An “other
field” for IPHY is Kinesiology. Our IPHY program will be listed under
Kinesiology with an asterisk directing readers to listings under
Physiology for full information. Also known as "secondary" and
"non-primary" fields.
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Subfields – Smaller discipline/research
areas nested under fields in the NRC taxonomy. In later stages, faculty
members and perhaps programs will select subfields to describe the type
of work done in the department. Example: Psychology (a program, or
faculty in Psychology) might select Behavioral Neurobiology, Social
Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and/or other subfields.
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Emerging fields – Discipline/research areas
with few large or well established PhD programs. Programs can be listed
under emerging fields but those programs will not be rated. Example: MIT
is listing Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which is an emerging
field in the NRC taxonomy, as a primary field. UCB is not planning to
list any programs with a primary emerging field.
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Taxonomy – NRC’s list of fields and
subfields, plus emerging fields
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NRC – National Research Council of the
National Academy of Science. “NRC” has also come to mean, the study of
research doctorates.
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Contact, coordinator - The program faculty
and staff designated to coordinate responses and other actions for the
program. Each program has an email list named NRC_XXXX, where XXXX is
the major code for the program; e.g., NRC_PSYC. We’ll communicate with
contacts/coordinators via these lists and using NRC_ALL, a list of all
the coordinators/contacts plus deans and steering committee.
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Steering committee – For UCB, Susan Avery,
John Stevenson, Carol Lynch, and Lou McClelland.
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