Fixing Grad School
Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University and the author of The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It (Harvard University Press, 2015), analyzes every aspect of what graduate schools get wrong and why, with particular focus on the lack of actual teaching instruction.
Now: you went to college, stuck it out for a masters and a PhD...yet you STILL can't get a teaching job. Discussing w/ @LCassuto on @WNYC.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) October 1, 2015
50% of PhD students don't finish. 25% don't get a job in field. A sliver achieve tenure. @LCassuto: "It's immoral." pic.twitter.com/xLiaw6St2o
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) October 1, 2015
@BrianLehrer 1 Get PhD in Dragonslaying. 2 Discover there are no dragons. 3 Teach Dragonslaying!
— Xopher SJW ½tongue (@Halftongue) October 1, 2015
@BrianLehrer @LCassuto In biological sciences, you get stuck at the low paying "Post-doc" level for up to ten years after graduating.
— Elaine Zhang (@wzhang33) October 1, 2015
@BrianLehrer Adjunctification is a deliberate policy. More full time jobs in humanities/social sciences would help the market a lot.
— Jonathan Cope (@stupidplover) October 1, 2015
