What are guidelines for the director to tell the student what to do, without inhibiting their freedom under the IGERT program?
In principle, IGERT students are working on an evolving team concept most of the time. To encourage individual creativity beyond the team project, Artisan-level students can write minigrants. Some of us remember 1970s style industrial research at the better sites: scientists were encouraged to spend about 1/4th of company time pursuing their own ideas. If we agree that graduate students should work 60+ hours per week, then perhaps 15+ hours per week on average pursuing individual ideas makes sense. By the way, I was very pleased to learn recently of a company that still encourages creativity time. It offers hope that the stressful conditions endured by industrial scientists in the 1990s may be subsiding.
Related Questions
- What if a Graduate Program Director or the academic department has questions about a students participation or progress during the semester?
- What if a school has no choral program or the choral director is not willing or able to sponsor the student?
- What other student benefits does the IGERT program cover?
