Current Issues in Graduate Education
Explore current issues in graduate education.
Doctoral Education Mismatch?
Findings from a recent survey of graduate students reveals a mismatch between doctoral education, student expectations, and career realities.
Findings from a recent survey of graduate students reveals a mismatch between doctoral education, student expectations, and career realities.
Graduate Student Unionization in Higher Education
ERIC digest sheds light on the controversy over whether graduate student unions have a place within higher education. Essential reading for informed and socially conscious grad students
ERIC digest sheds light on the controversy over whether graduate student unions have a place within higher education. Essential reading for informed and socially conscious grad students
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions
Information about labor unions representing Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and other Graduate Student Employee from the Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions, a loose-knit coalition of unions in the USA and Canada that represent graduate students employed as teachers, researchers, and university staff.
Information about labor unions representing Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and other Graduate Student Employee from the Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions, a loose-knit coalition of unions in the USA and Canada that represent graduate students employed as teachers, researchers, and university staff.
Are Grad Students Still the Best and Brightest?
Committee on Professionals in Science and Engineering online report presenting data on the quality of current graduate students
Committee on Professionals in Science and Engineering online report presenting data on the quality of current graduate students
Grad Student Unions Don't Hurt Prof-Student Relations
"University administrators have complained for years that graduate-student unions poison relations between professors and their advisees, but a new study challenges that theory."
"University administrators have complained for years that graduate-student unions poison relations between professors and their advisees, but a new study challenges that theory."
Surviving the Doctoral Years: Critical Perspectives
Examines critical issues shaping doctoral education through a survey of doctoral students' views of funding, support, the job market, and more.
Examines critical issues shaping doctoral education through a survey of doctoral students' views of funding, support, the job market, and more.
National Science Board Recommendations
The National Science Board's views on the role of federal government in graduate and post-doctoral education.
The National Science Board's views on the role of federal government in graduate and post-doctoral education.
Pursuit of the Ph.D: Survival of the Fittest?
Presents a detailed sociological portrait of doctoral students, with recommendations for improving access of graduate education.
Presents a detailed sociological portrait of doctoral students, with recommendations for improving access of graduate education.
Re-envisioning the PH.D.
Report from a national discussion on "How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet societal needs of the 21st Century?", held April 13-15, 2000 at the University of Washington. Lots of interesting material.
Report from a national discussion on "How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet societal needs of the 21st Century?", held April 13-15, 2000 at the University of Washington. Lots of interesting material.
Risky Business?
Is pursing a PhD risky business for students? Read this view from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Is pursing a PhD risky business for students? Read this view from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Toward a National Science Policy
The House Committee on Science recmmends that higher education prepare students who plan careers outside academe by increasing flexibility in graduate training programs. Encourage doctoral students to pursue coursework and gain relevant experience outside their specific areas of research.
The House Committee on Science recmmends that higher education prepare students who plan careers outside academe by increasing flexibility in graduate training programs. Encourage doctoral students to pursue coursework and gain relevant experience outside their specific areas of research.