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It’s time to confer more money and authority on a position whose weakness in the campus hierarchy has always been a given.

The University of St. Thomas, in Houston, is reviewing its hiring processes after faculty members accused its business-school dean of lying about his credentials.

For many students a PhD is a bridge to nowhere. We talk to the authors of a new book who argue universities should be readying graduate students for the jobs they will get beyond academia and the need for changes to graduate education.

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With the rising costs of tuition and the changing job market, university graduate degrees have garnered more and more scrutiny. The New PhD proposes a way

New PhD policy April 6, 2021 The history of educational policies in Pakistan is replete with non-consultative abrupt decisions which disrupted the ongoing policies and put things upside down. One such example was the nationalization of the private and missionary educational institutions by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1972. This sudden and unplanned decision seriously disturbed the fabric of the educational system in Pakistan and some renowned educational institutions fell victim to the policy. Ano...

Leonard Cassuto, a professor of English at Fordham University, teaches and writes about American literature and culture. Cassuto studies the place of higher education in the United States. He writes a monthly column for the Chronicle of Higher Education called “The Graduate Adviser.” His latest book is The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education (with Robert Weisbuch; Johns Hopkins, 2021). It follows The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It (Harvard, 2015...

summary For too many students, todays PhD is a bridge to nowhere. Imagine an entering cohort of eight doctoral students. By current statistics, four of the eight—50%!—will not complete the degree. Of the other four, two will never secure full-time academic positions. The remaining pair will find full-time teaching jobs, likely at teaching-intensive institutions. And maybe, just maybe, one of them will garner a position at a research university like the one where those eight students...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Leonard Cassuto and former university administrator Robert Weisbuch about their new book.

Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch This book examines the failed graduate school reforms of the past and presents a plan for a practical and sustainable PhD. For too many students, todays PhD is a bridge to nowhere. Imagine an entering cohort of eight doctoral students. By current statistics, four of the eight—50%!—will not complete the degree. Of the other four, two will never secure full-time academic positions. The remaining pair will find full-time teaching jobs, likely at teaching-int...