Educating Scholars (eBook)

Doctoral Education in the Humanities

Sharon M. Brucker, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Jeffrey A. Groen, Harriet Zuckerman (Autoren)

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2009
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3152-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Meeting the challenges faced by today's U.S. doctoral humanities programsDespite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not well in this area of higher education and hasn't been for some time. The content of graduate programs has undergone major changes, while high rates of student attrition, long times to degree, and financial burdens prevail. In response, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 1991 launched the Graduate Education Initiative (GEI), the largest effort ever undertaken to improve doctoral programs in the humanities and related social sciences. The only book to focus exclusively on the current state of doctoral education in the humanities, Educating Scholars reports on the GEI's success in reducing attrition and times to degree, the positive changes implemented by specific graduate programs, and the many challenges still to be addressed.Over a ten-year period, the Foundation devoted almost eighty-five million dollars through the GEI to provide support for doctoral programs and student aid in fifty-four departments at ten leading universities. The authors examine data that tracked the students in these departments and in control departments, as well as information gathered from a retrospective survey of students. They reveal that completion and attrition rates depend upon financial support, the quality of advising, clarity of program requirements, and each department's expectations regarding the dissertation. The authors consider who earns doctoral degrees, what affects students' chances of finishing their programs, and how successful they are at finding academic jobs.Answering some of the most important questions being raised about American doctoral programs today, Educating Scholars will interest all those concerned about our nation's intellectual future.

Autor

Ronald G. Ehrenberg is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. Harriet Zuckerman is senior vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and professor emerita of sociology at Columbia University. Jeffrey A. Groen is a research economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sharon M. Brucker is a project coordinator at the Survey Research Center of Princeton University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 19 line illus. 64 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement • academic advising • academic degree • academic department • Academic tenure • Academic term • Academic year • All but dissertation • American Academy of Arts and Sciences • American Educational Research Association • assistant professor • Bachelor's degree • Beyond Bias and Barriers • Calculation • Career • Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education • class size • collective impact • comprehensive examination • Course credit • coursework • credential • Critical period • doctorate • Doctor of Philosophy • Education • educational program • Education in the United States • estimation • Ethnic Studies • Faculty (academic staff) • fellow • First professional degree • freshman • Funding • Graduate assistant • Graduate Record Examinations • Graduate school • Harriet Zuckerman • Harvard University Press • higher education • Higher education in the United States • Higher Education Research Institute • Hyman Bass • Inside Higher Ed • Institution • Institutional Research • Jerry A. Hausman • job interview • labor relations • law degree • Lecture • lecturer • Liberal arts education • Master of business administration • Master of Fine Arts • master's degree • Mathematica Policy Research • National Academies Press • National Defense Education Act • Neil L. Rudenstine • of education • opportunity cost • oral exam • percentage • Percentage point • Postdoctoral researcher • Probability • Profession • professional development • Qualitative research • Requirement • Research assistant • research associate • Robert K. Merton • Sarah E. Turner • Scholarship • school of education • science education • Scientific American • Seminar • statistical significance • Student benefits • student teaching • Student voice • Study skills • Supervisor • Teacher Education • teaching assistant • Thesis • Thomas Ehrlich • Tuition payments • Unintended Consequences • University • University of California, Berkeley • University of California, Los Angeles • weighting • women in science • Yale University • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3152-0 / 1400831520
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3152-4 / 9781400831524