AAS Graduate Admissions Task Force: Final report and recommendations
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| author | Levesque, Emily M. Ivie, Rachel Johns-Krull, Christopher Krahm, Grace Lopez, Laura A. MacGregor, Meredith A. Monzon, Sebastian Piacitelli, Daniel R. Redfield, Seth Rice, Tom |
| author_facet | Levesque, Emily M. Ivie, Rachel Johns-Krull, Christopher Krahm, Grace Lopez, Laura A. MacGregor, Meredith A. Monzon, Sebastian Piacitelli, Daniel R. Redfield, Seth Rice, Tom |
| contents | In March of 2024 the AAS formed our Graduate Admissions Task Force (GATF), asking us to produce recommendations aimed at improving the state of graduate admissions in astronomy. The task was a timely one, as the past decade has seen dramatic shifts that are currently being exacerbated by rapidly-shifting funding and policy challenges. The GATF surveyed recent applicants to astronomy graduate school and admissions leaders in degree-granting graduate programs, held in-depth conversations with select programs, and explored how other fields approach admissions. Based on this work, we have quantified recent changes in the astronomy graduate admissions landscape, addressed mismatches between perception and reality, and identified several key ways to address some of our current challenges. In this report we summarize the results of this work and the four main recommendations we believe the AAS should take to make lasting positive changes. We emphasize that the goal of our report, and the GATF's work, is not to help programs select students, or to help applicants get into graduate school. Instead, we have focused on ways to make the admissions process itself more streamlined, fair, and efficient for everyone involved. |
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| spellingShingle | AAS Graduate Admissions Task Force: Final report and recommendations Levesque, Emily M. Ivie, Rachel Johns-Krull, Christopher Krahm, Grace Lopez, Laura A. MacGregor, Meredith A. Monzon, Sebastian Piacitelli, Daniel R. Redfield, Seth Rice, Tom Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Physics Education Physics and Society In March of 2024 the AAS formed our Graduate Admissions Task Force (GATF), asking us to produce recommendations aimed at improving the state of graduate admissions in astronomy. The task was a timely one, as the past decade has seen dramatic shifts that are currently being exacerbated by rapidly-shifting funding and policy challenges. The GATF surveyed recent applicants to astronomy graduate school and admissions leaders in degree-granting graduate programs, held in-depth conversations with select programs, and explored how other fields approach admissions. Based on this work, we have quantified recent changes in the astronomy graduate admissions landscape, addressed mismatches between perception and reality, and identified several key ways to address some of our current challenges. In this report we summarize the results of this work and the four main recommendations we believe the AAS should take to make lasting positive changes. We emphasize that the goal of our report, and the GATF's work, is not to help programs select students, or to help applicants get into graduate school. Instead, we have focused on ways to make the admissions process itself more streamlined, fair, and efficient for everyone involved. |
| title | AAS Graduate Admissions Task Force: Final report and recommendations |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Physics Education Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09759 |