ASHA Stretegic Plan

Issue B

Third Quarter Progress Report (July - September)

A critical shortage and continuing attrition of doctoral-level faculty in higher education is affecting the preparation of professionals as well as the conduct of research in communication sciences and disorders.

3rd Quarter Highlights

• Ongoing dissemination of "Reward Yourself with a College Professor" Brochure at NO meetings with external groups (e.g. Special Interest Division meetings).
• Mentoring Academic Research Careers (MARC) mentoring program enrollment was completed. 75 mentor/mentee matches were established.
• An article on the MARC program appeared in Special Interest Division 10: Issues in Higher Ed Perspectives Newsletter.
• 9 students received notification of their Students Preparing for Academic and Research Careers (SPARC) Award. Announcements of the award recipients were published in Access Academics & Research eNewsletter and posted on the Faculty, Researchers, and PhD students Web pages on the ASHA Web site.
• Through the assistance of Sen. Mikulski & Rep. VanHollen of Maryland, a request for a line-item appropriation in the FY2007 Labor-HHS-ED appropriations bill was made to seek funding for doctoral students with the American Speech-Language Hearing Foundation acting as the primary distribution organization to award grants to CSD academic programs. 

There are 9 strategies in the work plan for Issue B. Following is the status for the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd quarter.

NOTES:  Many of the strategies included in the Strategic Plan work plan are ongoing. Please access the 2006 work plan to review all of the strategies being implemented.

View the progress reports for the ASHA Focused Initiative on the PhD Shortage related to Issue B.