Graduate Study For The Twenty-first Century: How To Build An Academic Career In The Humanities Graduate Study For The 21st Century Ebrary

Many Graduate Students Continue To Be Regarded As Apprentices Despite The Fact That They Are Expected To Design And Teach Their Own Classes, Serve On University Committees, And Conference And Publish Regularly. The Chronicle Of Higher Education Reports That The Attrition Rate For American Ph. D. Programs Is At An All-time High, Between 40% And 50% (higher For Women And Minorities). Of Those Who Finish, Only One In Three Will Secure Tenure-track Jobs. These Statistics Highlight Waste: Of Millions Of Dollars By Universities And Of Time And Energy By Students. Rather Than Teaching Graduate Students How To Be Graduate Students, Then, The Guide Prepares Them For What They Really Seek: A Successful Academic Career. - Publisher. The Culture Of A Graduate Program -- The Structure Of A Graduate Career -- Organization And Time Management -- The Graduate Seminar -- The Seminar Paper -- Teaching -- Exams -- The Dissertation -- Attending Conferences -- Publishing -- Service And Participation -- The Job Market. Gregory M. Colón Semenza, With A Foreword By Michael Bérubé. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [307]-311) And Index. "Many graduate students continue to be regarded as "apprentices" despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the attrition rate for American Ph. D. programs is at an all-time high, between 40% and 50% (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs. These statistics highlight waste: of millions of dollars by universities and of time and energy by students. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, then, the guide prepares them for what they really seek: a successful academic career"--Provided by publisher Many graduate students continue to be regarded as 'apprentices' despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. "The Chronicle of Higher Education" reports that the attrition rate for American Ph. D. programmes is at an all-time high, between 40 per cent and 50 per cent (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs. These statistics highlight: waste of millions of dollars by universities and of time and energy by students. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, then, the guide prepares them for what they really seek: a successful academic career

Many graduate students continue to be regarded as 'apprentices' despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the attrition rate for American Ph.D. programmes is at an all-time high, between 40% and 50% (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs. These statistics highlight waste: of millions of dollars by universities and of time and energy by students. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, then, the guide prepares them for what they really seek: a successful academic career.

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-9 The Culture of a Graduate Program....Pages 10-30 The Structure of Your Graduate Career: An Ideal Plan....Pages 31-45 Organization and Time Management....Pages 46-67 The Graduate Seminar....Pages 68-81 The Seminar Paper....Pages 82-101 Teaching....Pages 102-134 Exams....Pages 135-152 The Dissertation....Pages 153-180 Attending Conferences....Pages 181-199 Publishing....Pages 200-223 Service and Participation....Pages 224-240 The Job Market....Pages 241-267 Back Matter....Pages 268-319 Many graduate students continue to be regarded as 'apprentices' despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, this guide prepares them to seek a successful academic career