{"id":387,"date":"2008-08-14T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/c\/?p=387"},"modified":"2013-01-17T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T08:10:37","slug":"best-practices-for-igert-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/best-practices-for-igert-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices for IGERT Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bigstock-Suburbs-And-City-Globe-Concept-27548780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1762\" title=\"Suburbs and city globe concept\" src=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bigstock-Suburbs-And-City-Globe-Concept-27548780-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bigstock-Suburbs-And-City-Globe-Concept-27548780-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bigstock-Suburbs-And-City-Globe-Concept-27548780-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bigstock-Suburbs-And-City-Globe-Concept-27548780.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The National Science Foundation funds IGERT programs in order to incubate new practices, not to provide long-term program funding. Once initial funding peters out, program directors and graduate school administrators face the challenge of maintaining the generous funding levels that fostered excellence. CIRGE explored ways to meet this challenge and sustain the programming initiated with IGERT funds by collecting the successful experiences of IGERT program directors, the best practices put forth by institutions on the forefront of interdisciplinary innovation of doctoral education, and the recommendations by scholars and university committees concerned with reform of interdisciplinary study and research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download report:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/best_practices_for_igert_sustainability_fin4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Best Practices for IGERT Sustainability<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation funds IGERT programs in order to incubate new practices, not to provide long-term program funding. Once initial funding peters out, program directors and graduate school administrators face the challenge of maintaining the generous funding levels that fostered excellence. CIRGE explored ways to meet this challenge and sustain the programming initiated with IGERT funds by collecting the successful experiences of IGERT program directors, the best practices put forth by institutions on the forefront of interdisciplinary innovation of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/best-practices-for-igert-sustainability\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Practices for IGERT Sustainability<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,296],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment-of-interdisciplinary-doctoral-programs","category-igert-2","tag-igert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}