'U.S. News' Seeks Medical Deans' Input on Rankings, and Gets an Earful
The deans said some of the magazine's measures were meaningless, while the publication's editor defended the rankings as one of many tools for choosing a college.
View ArticleMore Universities Break the Taboo and Talk to Ph.D.'s About Jobs Outside Academe
Ohio State's recent Alternative Career Day is part of a growing movement to recognize that taking a job outside academe is by no means an admission of failure.
View ArticleProtesters Plan a National 'Student-Debt Refusal' Campaign
Occupy Wall Street members are drawing up three pledges concerning student debt, says a New York University professor working with the movement.
View ArticleGraduate Student Debt Matters
Faculty need to take a stand against a cynical overreliance on loans that hamstrings our graduate students.
View ArticleAcademic Job Hunters: Don't Sell Yourself Short, Even Now
Negotiating for more pay and benefits is still possible, say hiring managers, despite young scholars' desperation for a job, any job.
View ArticleDaniel Greenberg, an M.B.A. Student Who Worked on a Microfinance Program for...
Daniel Greenberg learned that security is paramount when he helped create a marketing strategy for a lending program to serve low-income residents of Iraq.
View ArticleThe Art of 'the Ask'
Your main goal in asking fellow academics for career help should be making it easy for them to say yes.
View ArticleAt Annual Meeting, Graduate-School Administrators Focus on Changing...
Participants discussed ways to build on gains in diversity and plan the future course of their graduate programs, even in tough times.
View Article'Like Flies in Buttermilk': Black Deans Talk Candidly About Diversity in...
Among their worries was that efforts to improve diversity might be pushed back if the Supreme Court revisits the issue of affirmative action in admissions.
View ArticleIt's a Buyer's Market for Colleges Hiring Junior Faculty
Ph.D. and master's graduates from elite universities are taking faculty positions at less-prominent institutions.
View ArticleOK, Let's Teach Graduate Students Differently. But How?
What should graduate teaching look like when it aims to prepare students for a range of careers?
View ArticleThe Art of Rejection
Two veterans of the academic job market say that rejection never really gets easier, but it could be handled better.
View ArticleHistorians Face New Pressure to Track Where Their Ph.D.'s Work
Accurate data are important for persuading potential donors that a department merits support, but faculty often resist questions about whether what they do is worthwhile.
View ArticleMaking a Public Ph.D.
How, specifically, do you put together a program that will prepare graduate students for nonacademic careers?
View ArticleWhat They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School 2.0
Many doctoral students have only the vaguest concept of what it's like to work in the academic world. Here's what you need to know.
View ArticleUnion Battle Causes Rifts Among Faculty and Graduate Students at U. of Michigan
Research assistants who don't want to organize say they worry the efforts could imperil their relationships with their advisers and other professors.
View ArticleThe Comprehensive Exam: Make It Relevant
How can we use comp exams to identify doctoral students who are suited for dissertation work and those who aren't?
View Article21 Colleges to Study What Helps Minority Ph.D. Students in Sciences Succeed
Grants from the Council of Graduate Schools will allow the colleges to investigate which interventions keep such students on track to earn their degrees.
View ArticleA Comic Dissertation
Nick Sousanis decided to write his dissertation, about the use of comics for teaching and learning, in comic-book form.
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