Author: Burton R. Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520338715
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Author: Brian S. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487508611
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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A Research Agenda for Graduate Education is a challenge to the higher education community to conduct research on graduate education as it would any other area of educational research.
Author: Leonard Cassuto
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421439778
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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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, 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 the needs of that single one of them who might snag a job at a research university. Graduate school has been preparing students for jobs that don't exist—and preparing them to want those jobs above all others. In The New PhD, Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch argue that universities need to ready graduate students for the jobs they will get, not just the academic ones. Connecting scholarly training to the vast array of career options open to graduates requires a PhD that looks outside the walls of the university, not one that turns inward—a PhD that doesn't narrow student minds but unlocks and broadens them practically as well as intellectually. Cassuto and Weisbuch document the growing movement for a student-centered, career-diverse graduate education, and they highlight some of the most promising innovations that are taking place on campuses right now. They also review for the first time the myriad national reform efforts, sponsored by major players like Carnegie and Mellon, that took place between 1990 and 2010, look at why these attempts failed, and ask how we can do better this time around. A more humane and socially dynamic PhD experience, the authors assert, is possible. This new PhD reconceives of graduate education as a public good, not a hermetically sealed cloister—and it won't happen by itself. Throughout the book, Cassuto and Weisbuch offer specific examples of how graduate programs can work to: • reduce the time it takes students to earn a degree; • expand career opportunities after graduation; • encourage public scholarship; • create coherent curricula and rethink the dissertation; • attract a truly representative student cohort; and • provide the resources—financial, cultural, and emotional—that students need to successfully complete the program. The New PhD is a toolbox for practical change that will teach readers how to achieve consensus on goals, garner support, and turn talk to action. Speaking to all stakeholders in graduate education—faculty, administrators, and students—it promises that graduates can become change agents throughout our world. By fixing the PhD, we can benefit the entire educational system and the life of our society along with it.
Author: Burton R. Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520915107
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, France, the United States, and Japan—which was first reported in the edited volume The Research Foundations of Graduate Education (California, 1993)—this book offers in-depth comparative analysis and draws provocative conclusions about the future of the research-teaching-study nexus. With characteristic clarity and vision, Burton R. Clark identifies the main features and limitations of each national system: governmental and industrial dominance in Japan, for example, and England's collegiate form of university. He examines the forces drawing research, teaching, and study apart and those binding them together. Highlighting the fruitful integration of teaching and research in the American graduate school, Clark decries the widely held view that these are antithetical activities. Rather, he demonstrates that research provides a rich basis for instruction and learning. Universities, he maintains, are places of inquiry, and the future lies with institutions firmly grounded in this belief.
Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: Advancement of Teaching
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Graduate education in the United States and issues related to the survival of scholarship are addressed. Ways to balance undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies are considered, including issues related to research training and the undergraduate major. It is suggested that graduate schools coordinate their emphasis on general education with undergraduate colleges. Topics of discussion include: the dominance of the Ph.D. as the credential for college teachers; the effects of graduate education on undergraduate teaching; the shrinking of the collegiate student body and its implications for the need for scholars in the future; the role of general education in the preparation of scholars; the need for perspectives on foreign cultures in the scholar's training; distinctions between traditional graduate divisions and professional schools; tensions between colleges (within and separate from universities) and the graduate divisions of universities; moral and ethical concerns of those engaged in research; and the degree to which concern for equality of opportunity in education might change the quality of scholarship. Appendices provide brief narrative descriptions and statistical tables on trends in graduate education, including enrollments, the number of institutions offering graduate degrees, and sources of student support. (SW)
Author: Marcia Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Author: United States. National Commission on Student Financial Assistance. Graduate Education Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Author: Robert V. Smith
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489974105
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A guide to help graduate students in the sciences cope with the greatest challenge of graduate school--conducting research.
Author: National Science Board (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175615
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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There is a growing concern among educators and policymakers about the level of attrition from Ph.D. programs in the sciences and humanities at some U.S. universities. Reliable estimates of graduate student attrition are difficult to obtain, however, because most information comes from the administrative records of individual institutions. This book provides a summary of datasets that could be used to analyze patterns of graduate student attrition and degree completion nationally, along with an analysis of recent studies on the subject. Based on this information, the committee examines the feasibility of designing a system to produce national estimates of graduate student attrition.
