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MILWAUKEE — Marquette University is celebrating 100 Years of the Marquette Graduate School during the 2022-23 academic year and will kick off a year of centen
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.
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). Cassuto is the author or editor of nine books, among which are The Cambridge History of the Ameri...
summary For too many students, today's 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 began graduate school. But all eight members of that original group will be trained according to t...
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Leonard Cassuto and former university administrator Robert Weisbuch about their new book.