QMSS strives to be an active part of the incredible learning community both within CU and New York City. Therefore we actively establish new partnerships with different groups to enhance student opportunities to learn and connections within a variety of fields.
For examples of projects our students and faculty have partnered on, see the Research Fellowships page.
Common Cents Penny Harvest
The QMSS faculty are also staff for the Center for Research on Education, Engagement and Development at ISERP to share the benefits of QMSS methodologies with institutions and organizations outside of Columbia University.Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation recently awarded a grant to strengthen the quality of research on Higher Education to Columbia University's Quantitative Methods and Social Sciences (QMSS) Masters degree program. The funding will be used to launch an initiative, with the support of QMSS affiliated faculty, to strengthen the methodological and policy-related training of doctoral students in the field of higher education.
If you or someone you know is in the pre-dissertation stage of their doctoral candidacy and would be interested in applying for the summer workshop please contact the Program Coordinator (Christine Baker-Smith). Application deadlines for summer 08 are May 1, 2009. The workshop dates will be in late July 2009. Please see the full web page for more information.
Testimonials from 2008:
“I really enjoyed every aspect of the past two weeks, including learning from Drs. Goldrick-Rab, Corcoran, Weiss, and Ready, meeting colleagues from other higher ed PhD/EdD programs, and having time to think about and discuss research problems, research methods, statistical software packages. I would have certainly enjoyed additional days with this remarkable workshop faculty.”
"The workshop on Friday was interesting. Thanks for organizing the day.
Shanna really is a terrific instructor. I'm looking forward to getting to
some of the other high priority topics we'd like to cover too. I'm very keen
to do missing data and propensity score matching. Also cluster analysis
would be very interesting."
"This workshop has inspired me to read some new and interesting things
(based on what the profs taught us this summer), and even pick up
another (very hard!!) stats class this fall, so I think nothing but
good thoughts about everything that has happened so far with the
workshop."