Shrinking Pipeline Research Articles

Perspective: Tectonic Shifts in Academic Pediatrics: Changes and Adaptation

Pediatric academia is evolving in the face of many changes: a challenging funding environment, trainees who favor clinical care and part-time careers over biomedical research, and a shrinking pipeline of physician-scientists and clinician-scholars. The trend toward fewer pediatric-based academicians with classical academic interests is the consequence of numerous factors and parallels the decline in MDs entering research careers in other fields. With increasing interest in clinical positions. After fellowship, fewer trainees focus on the rigorous prospective clinical or basic projects which used to dominate fellowship research training. Trainees increasingly choose clinician or clinician-educator career paths. Contributing to this shift are substantial economic pressures that favor the recruitment and development of clinician faculty over research scholars. As these trends continue, there will be a less pluralistic pediatric research base, and high-value pediatric research will become consolidated at institutions with the financial capacity to support pediatric research. The challenge in pediatrics is to anticipate and manage these academic shifts and determine where pediatric academia should move. The author offers several ideas for managing and adapting to the challenges facing academic pediatrics.

Climbing onto the shoulders of giants

The "incredible shrinking pipeline" problem has become the euphemism for the dilemma of declining numbers of women seeking bachelor's degrees in a computing discipline. The problem is well recognized, and many have suggested reasons for it. Unfortunately, much of what has been written is based on anecdotal evidence or inferences made from statistical results from small samples of very specific groups in the computing disciplines. There have been few multi-disciplinary approaches to analyze the problem with even fewer attempts to create a model that might explain it. This paper is the end of a beginning. Having received a National Science Foundation grant to study gender-based differences and ethnic and cultural models in the computing disciplines, the principle investigators document the work that has led to launching a nationwide study of the problem to commence in Fall 2004.

The incredible shrinking pipeline

article Share on The incredible shrinking pipeline Author: Tracy Camp "The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline", Communications of the ACM "The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline", Communications of the ACMView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGCSE BulletinVolume 34Issue 2June 2002 pp 129–134https://doi.org/10.1145/543812.543846Online:01 June 2002Publication History 25citation1,225DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations25Total Downloads1,225Last 12 Months77Last 6 weeks14 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

Survey results from the incredible shrinking pipeline (abstract)

The percentage of bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science to women has decreased almost every year over the last decade. That is, even though more women are awarded bachelor's degrees, and even though the percentages of bachelor's degrees awarded to women in disciplines similar to computer science increased, the percentage of bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science to women decreased. Thus, the pipeline, which represents the ratio of women involved in computer science from high school to graduate school, shrinks both from one end to the other _and_ in the middle. Since the number of women at the bachelor's level affects the number of women at levels higher in the pipeline and in the job market, these facts are of great concern to many in the computing community.In this paper, we review the harsh facts concerning the percentage of degrees awarded in computer science to women. When we presented these facts in CACM (October 1997), we requested that the community respond to the facts through an interactive survey. At this time, 120 people have responded to the survey. In this paper, we present the results we have obtained from compiling these 120 survey responses.

The incredible shrinking pipeline

The incredible shrinking pipeline