The new PhD : how to build a better graduate education /
Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch.
- 1 online resource (400 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Then and now: two recent eras of reform -- Purpose, then path: a practical guide to starting the conversation -- Career diversity: a liberal arts approach to the PhD -- Admissions and attrition -- Student support and time to degree -- Curing the curriculum and examining the exam -- advising -- Students as teachers -- Degrees: what should they look like? What should they do? -- Public scholarship: what it is, where it came from, and what it requires -- Conclusion. from words to actions -- Postscript. Graduate school after COVID-19.
"This book is a guide to fixing dysfunctional PhD education. It is written for faculty, administrators, students, and the interested general public. The coauthors discovered a surprising degree of consensus on what's wrong with doctoral programs, from admissions judgments to career outcomes. Out of their study of what went wrong, the coauthors propose a method and a model for student-centered change in doctoral education"--
9781421439778
Doctor of philosophy degree. Universities and colleges--Graduate work.