Contents -- Introduction -- Improving Doctoral Education -- Changing the Education of Scholars -- The Council of Graduate Schools' PhD Completion Project -- A dvocating Apprenticeship and Intellectual Community -- Three Ways of Winning Doctoral Education -- Confronting Common Assumptions -- Attracting Undergraduates to PhD Study -- Generating Doctoral Degree Candidates at Liberal Arts Colleges -- Undergraduate STEM Research Experiences -- Increasing the Representation of People of Color in the PhD Pool -- Minority Students in Science and Math -- The Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute -- Curriculum Intensity in Graduate Preparatory Programs -- Assessing Programs to Improve Minority Participation in the STEM Fields -- Increasing the Representation of Women in Academia -- First a Glass Ceiling, Now a Glass Cliff? -- Increasing Women's Representation in the Life Sciences -- Attracting and Retaining Women in Engineering -- The Internationalization of Doctoral Education -- Do Foreign Doctorate Recipients Displace U. S. Doctorate Recipients at U. S. Universities? -- Opening (and Closing) Doors -- What the "War on Terror" Has Meant for U. S. Colleges and Universities -- Looking to the Future -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.