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The Graduate School Mess : What Caused It and How We Can Fix it / Leonard Cassuto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassuto, Leonard, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--United States--Graduate work.
- Universities and colleges.
- Education, Higher--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- American graduate education is in disarray. Graduate study in the humanities takes too long and those who succeed face a dismal academic job market. Leonard Cassuto gives practical advice about how faculty can teach and advise students so that they are prepared for the demands of the working worlds they will join, inside and outside the academy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: In Search of a Usable Future
- 1. Admissions
- 2. Classwork: The Graduate Seminar and Beyond
- 3. The Comprehensive Exam: Capstone or Cornerstone?
- 4. Advising
- 5. Degrees
- 6. Professionalization
- 7. The Job Market Reconceived
- Conclusion: In Search of an Ethic
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674495593
- 0674495594
- OCLC:
- 927140822
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