In Pursuit of the PhD / Neil L. Rudenstine, William G. Bowen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, William G., author.

Rudenstine, Neil L., author.

Series:

The William G. Bowen Series ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational surveys--United States.

Educational surveys.

Doctor of philosophy degree--United States.

Doctor of philosophy degree.

Universities and colleges--United States--Graduate work.

Universities and colleges.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What percentage of graduate students entering PhD programs in the arts and sciences at leading universities actually complete their studies? How do completion rates vary by field of study, scale of graduate program, and type of financial support provided to students? Has the increasing reliance on Teaching Assistantships affected completion rates and time-to-degree? How successful have national fellowship programs been in encouraging students to finish their studies in reasonably short periods of time? What have been the effects of curricular developments and shifts in the state of the job market? How has the overall "system" of graduate education been affected by the expansion of the 1960s and the subsequent contraction in enrollments and degrees conferred? Is there "excess capacity" in the system at the present time? This major study seeks to answer fundamental questions of this kind. It is based on an exhaustive analysis of an unparalleled data set consisting of the experiences in graduate school of more than 35,000 students who entered programs in English, history, political science, economics, mathematics, and physics at ten leading universities between 1962 and 1986. In addition, new information has been obtained on the graduate student careers of more than 13,000 winners of prestigious national fellowships such as the Woodrow Wilson and the Danforth. It is the combination of these original data sets with other sources of national data that permits fresh insights into the processes and outcomes of graduate education. The authors conclude that opportunities to achieve significant improvements in the organization and functioning of graduate programs exist--especially in the humanities and related social sciences--and the final part of the book contains their policy recommendations. This will be the standard reference on graduate education for years to come, and it should be read and studied by everyone concerned with the future of graduate education in the United States.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

CHAPTER ONE. Introduction and Principal Findings

PART ONE. Trends in Graduate Education

CHAPTER TWO. Recipients of Doctorates

CHAPTER THREE. The BA-PhD Nexus

CHAPTER FOUR. Graduate Programs: The Dual Questions of Quality and Scale

CHAPTER FIVE. The Evolution of Selected Tier I Programs in the EHP Fields

PART TWO. Factors Affecting Outcomes

CHAPTER SIX. Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree: Concepts and General Patterns

CHAPTER SEVEN. Fields of Study

CHAPTER EIGHT. Scale of Graduate Program

CHAPTER NINE. Student-Year Cost and Its Components

PART THREE. Policies and Program Design

CHAPTER TEN. Financial Support for Graduate Students

CHAPTER ELEVEN. National Fellowship Programs

CHAPTER TWELVE. Requirements and Program Content

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Program Design, Oversight, and "Culture"

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Recommendations

APPENDIX A. The Ten-University Data Set

APPENDIX B. The National Fellowship Data Set

APPENDIX C. Survey of Mellon Fellows in the Humanities

APPENDIX D Measuring Time to the Doctorate: Reinterpretation of the Evidence / Bowen, William G. / Lordf, Graham / Sosa, Julie Ann

APPENDIX E. Time-to-Degree and Faculty Promotion: A Study of Faculty Promoted to Tenure at Four Universities and Three Colleges, 1980-81 to 1989-90

APPENDIX F. Theory and Its Reverberations

APPENDIX G. Additional Tables

Definitions of Frequently Used Terms

References Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-436) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-691-63208-1

0-691-60261-1

1-4008-6247-7

OCLC:

889252976