The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (www.woodrow.org/responsivephd) has identified fourteen research universities as the sites for their Responsive Ph.D. Initiative. With an initial grant from Pew Charitable Trusts, the foundation is organizing an effort to sharpen the focus on doctoral education. The fourteen universities are charged with developing and testing models for innovation and change. The initiative focuses on three areas: paradigms, practices, and people. As the Foundation notes, "As the shapers of doctoral education reflect on the enterprise of producing PhDs, new questions have surfaced:

• Through what new paradigms can the learning associated with the highest degree in academic disciplines inform more fully the life of the nation?
• By which new practices can the doctorate more perfectly represent adventuresome research?
• And how can the increased involvement of new people from a wide variety of backgrounds aid in the diversification of the American intellect?"

In keeping with this agenda, each university is expected to design a program that meets the needs of their faculty, students, and community constituents. The ASU initiative will focus on how we might construct a more valuable Ph.D. for ASU.

Participating Universities
The following research universities have been chosen to participate in this project:

Arizona State University University of Michigan University of Washington University of Texas, Austin Duke University Indiana University University of Colorado, Boulder

Washington University, St. Louis University of Pennsylvania University of Wisconsin, Madison Princeton University Howard University Yale University University of California, Irvine

To learn more about ASU's Responsive Ph.D. Initiative, please see the following:

• ASU's Initiative
• Focus Groups
• The National Initiative