The new PhD : how to build a better graduate education /
Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch.
- 400 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contenidos: Introduction: Why We Need a New PhD and How We Can Create One
Chapter 1: Then and Now: Two Recent Eras of Reform
Chapter 2: Purpose, Then Path: A Practical Guide to Starting the Conversation
Chapter 3: Career Diversity: A Liberal Arts Approach to the PhD
Chapter 4: Admissions and Attrition
Chapter 5: Student Support and Time to Degree
Chapter 6: Curing the Curriculum and Examining the Exam
Chapter 7: Advising
Chapter 8: Students as Teachers
Chapter 9: Degrees: What Should They Look Like? What Should They Do?
Chapter 10: Public Scholarship: What It Is, Where It Came From, and What It Requires
Conclusion: From Words to Actions
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
"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"--