Professional Training in Graduate School
“They’re Made as Hell” by Leonard Cassuto, in The Chronicle of Higher Education
When I wrote last month about the need for professional-development seminars for graduate students, my only intention was to offer some straightforward advice to the profession. Instead, I tapped a vein—no, an artery—and released a lot of pent-up emotion in readers that went way beyond the subject at hand.
Foremost among those emotions was anger. In the comments section of my column, one reader lashed out at tenured professors who have “seemingly no clue about the realities of the current higher-ed job market.” Another complained that “the system wouldn’t be in such a bad state as it is if faculty didn’t blatantly mislead students, whether through their own ignorance or lying intentionally, about the actual value of a graduate degree.” … [Read More here]
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