Degrees Earned by Faculty Teaching in Soil Science Preparatory Programs at Universities in the USA

Autor/inn/en	Brevik, Eric C.; Vaughan, Karen
Titel	Degrees Earned by Faculty Teaching in Soil Science Preparatory Programs at Universities in the USA
Quelle	In: Natural Sciences Education, 49 (2020) 1, (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Brevik, Eric C.) ORCID (Vaughan, Karen)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2168-8281
DOI	10.1002/nse2.20033
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Academic Degrees; Soil Science; Agricultural Education; Academic Rank (Professional); Educational Trends + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Bodenkunde; Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Bildungsentwicklung
Abstract	In the early 2000s some were concerned that few soil science graduate students were receiving their bachelor's degrees in soil science. However, no studies were conducted to investigate this or how it may have changed over time. Information available on university webpages for faculty in the United States was used to determine the faculty's bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree disciplines. Faculty rank was used to determine if a change had occurred in the percentage of faculty who received their bachelor's degrees in soil science over time. Only 16% of faculty teaching in programs that prepare graduates to work as soil scientists received their bachelor's degrees in soil science. This percentage increased to 56 and 67% who received their master's and doctoral degrees, respectively, in soil science, but about 26% of faculty who teach in soil science preparatory programs did not have any degrees that could be identified as a "soil science" degree. The degrees that faculty received their training in also differed by their current soil science specialty area. About 13% of assistant professors and 20% of full professors received their bachelor's degrees in soil science, so the percentage of students entering soil science graduate programs with a bachelor's degree in soil science appears to have declined with time. However, a majority of soil science graduate students having bachelor's degrees from other fields also appears to have been common going back at least several decades. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01