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Key to a Diverse Pool of Doctoral Students? ‘Relevant’ Research
A new program aims to help the students answer a question that many of them struggle with: “What are we doing this for?” → Read More
On the Dissertation: How to Find a Research Topic
A new book sheds light on a vital academic skill: the art and craft of figuring out what you want to investigate. → Read More
Why Teaching Still Gets No Respect in Doctoral Training
Graduate school has long proved a flashpoint for the resistance to scrutiny of faculty teaching. Is that finally changing? → Read More
Great Books, Graduate Students, and the Value of Fun in Higher Education
A generalist-versus-specialist debate is burgeoning, and it’s one that academe badly needs to have — out in the open. → Read More
How Do We Teach Graduate Students in the Humanities to Collaborate?
A new “lab course” for doctoral students in history builds teamwork skills — and a lot more. → Read More
How to Begin Fixing Workplace Culture for Graduate Students
Doctoral students often suffer the worst consequences of the faculty’s inattention to the academic workplace. → Read More
What’s the Best Way to Do Public Humanities? Ask a Philosopher
Not every academic can or should do public outreach, but those who do it well benefit all of academe. → Read More
Can Yale Reform Its Humanities Doctoral Programs?
Major universities have been slow to acknowledge the collapse of the tenure-track job market. A new report from Yale changes that. → Read More
How a 2-Day Boot Camp Is Helping Ph.D.s Identify Career Options
A career-diversity program overseas is worth replicating at American universities. → Read More
The Concrete Benefits of a Virtual Conference
Yes, academics miss our in-person scholarly meetups. But the online version of the annual MLA convention had its own virtues. → Read More
Will Covid Finally Force Us to Fix Our Broken Doctoral Advising?
In a barren tenure-track market, we must consider what, exactly, we are preparing doctoral students to do. → Read More
How to Write a Dissertation During a Pandemic
Many doctoral students feel a crisis of purpose amid Covid-19: Should they bother to keep writing? → Read More
Doctoral Training Should Include an Internship
Here’s one model for a university internship program that offers graduate students the diverse career options they need. → Read More
The Gender Politics of Doctoral Reform
Where are the white guys when we talk about changing the way Ph.D.s are advised and trained? → Read More
The Gender Politics of Doctoral Reform
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6 Tips to Improve Your Cover Letter
Why write an application letter so dry that even you wouldn’t want to read it? → Read More
Outcomes-Based Graduate School: the Humanities Edition
An English department looked to data to rework its graduate-program curriculum, and it paid off for the students. → Read More
On the Value of Dissertation-Writing Groups
Graduate school glorifies solitary labor, but scholarly writing has always been collaborative. → Read More
Can You Train Your Ph.D.s for Diverse Careers When You Don’t Have One?
A new seminar at Michigan helped doctoral students explore nonfaculty jobs and helped a professor learn how to teach about them. → Read More
Scholars, Know Thy History: Higher Ed Has Always Struggled to Survive in the U.S.
A new one-volume history of the American academy should be a must-read for every graduate student — and plenty of more-established Ph.D.s, too. → Read More