{"id":9212,"date":"2015-04-07T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=9212"},"modified":"2015-04-07T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T18:09:48","slug":"by-the-numbers-digging-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2015\/04\/by-the-numbers-digging-deeper\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers:  Digging Deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Geology Department recently looked at what its majors have gone on to do since graduation, specifically examining reports provided by the HEDS (Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium). They focused on reports documenting the U.S. undergraduate institution from which Ph.D. recipients in Earth Sciences earned their bachelor\u2019s degrees. The results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>During the 1970s (1971-1980), <\/b>eight Earth Science Ph.D.s were awarded to Colorado College graduates, a number that ranked 25th (tied with Antioch and Wittenberg) among U.S. undergraduate liberal arts institutions.<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.65;\">During the 1980s (1981-1990), <\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.65;\">16 Earth Science Ph.D.s were awarded to Colorado College graduates, a number that ranked eighth among U.S. undergraduate liberal arts institutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.65;\">During the 1990s (1991-2000), <\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.65;\">18 Earth Science Ph.D.s were awarded to Colorado College graduates, a number that ranked fourth (tied with the College of Wooster) among U.S. undergraduate liberal arts institutions, behind Carleton, Colgate, and Oberlin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.65;\">During the 2000s (2001-2010), <\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.65;\">28 Earth Science Ph.D.s were awarded to Colorado College graduates, a number that ranked third among U.S. undergraduate liberal arts institutions, behind Carleton and Williams.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.65;\">Over the most recent five years for which data are available (2007-2011),\u00a0<\/b>19 Earth Science Ph.D.s were awarded to Colorado College graduates, a\u00a0number that ranked second among U.S. undergraduate liberal arts institutions, behind only Carleton.<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.65;\">Over that last five-year period,<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.65;\"> CC ranked 21st among all U.S. institutions as baccalaureate origin for Earth Science Ph.D.s \u2014 tied with Boston University, Dartmouth, MIT, University of North Carolina, and William and Mary; just ahead of Duke, Rice, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, and University of Texas-Austin, and also ahead of Princeton, Yale, and Columbia.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cNot only are a large number of Colorado College graduates getting Ph.D.s in the Earth Sciences, many are going on from there to college- and university-level teaching and research positions, or applying their scientific training in the public policy arena,\u201d said Geology Professor Eric Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>Among the CC Geology alumni who graduated after 1990, at least 19 (10 men and nine women) currently have college or university faculty positions. At least three other post-1990 graduates hold senior research positions at universities or museums, and another is a senior federal government science policy adviser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geology Department recently looked at what its majors have gone on to do since graduation, specifically examining reports provided by the HEDS (Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium). They focused on reports documenting the U.S. undergraduate institution from which Ph.D. recipients in Earth Sciences earned their bachelor\u2019s degrees. 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