What are the details and status of the University of Cincinnatis innovative approach to PhD education?
by Nancy Creaghead, Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati In 2004, ASHA, via its then Focused Initiative on the PhD Shortage, established a grant competition for innovative models of PhD education in communication sciences and disorders (CSD). The faculty at the University of Cincinnati (UC) were willing to take the challenge and were awarded the $50,000 grant. We initiated three pilot projects to examine ways to provide access to a PhD program: We partnered with undergraduate programs to recruit minority students into a master of arts (MA)-to-PhD program, and we partnered with a master’s program to recruit students directly into the PhD program by beginning a research relationship with them during their MA program. This article will describe our experiences with the third strategy-providing aspects of the PhD program through distance learning. We developed a model for a distance learning program that included the followi
