GREAT Group Postdoc Committee

Postdoctoral education and training play prominent roles in the national research enterprise. Research institutions and universities are slowly beginning to establish central administrative oversight of postdoctoral affairs. Increasingly, postdoctoral scientists have begun to formalize their efforts to effect policy changes and improve their experience by organizing institutional postdoc associations (PDAs). This movement has resulted in National Postdoc Network meetings and the formation of a National Postdoctoral Association (NPA).

The GREAT Group established the Postdoctorate committee in October of 2002. The committee includes four faculty members, four postdoctoral fellows, and a faculty member chair. (Three of the postdoctoral fellow members will be nominated by the NPA.)

The GREAT Group Postdoctoral Committee seeks to examine and address the following issues:

• Provide a forum for GREAT member-institution representatives to share information on policies and best practices developed by individual institutions;
• Develop good/best practices for the implementation of postdoctoral policies by institutions;
• Support and collaborate with institutional and national postdoctoral organizations and postdoctoral affairs offices on essential postdoc issues;and
• Interact with funding agencies, especially NIH, to set policy guidelines for stipends, benefits, and duration of support for postdocs.

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