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GRADUATE EDUCATION DIRECTORY


Twenty years ago, a scholar took her first job ABD. Today, it takes a book contract. By the time most Ph.D. degree holders find jobs, they have already done nearly enough scholarship to qualify for tenure. Soon enough, the only way to get a tenure-track job will be to have had one already.
(Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor)

 

Attracting the Best and the Brightest (pdf), Issues in Science and Technology, by William Zumetta and Joyce S. Raveling, University of Washington.

Esther Goldberg, a graduate student in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, conducted a Graduate Student Survey between October 2001 through March 2002.

You can view the results of The 2000 National Doctoral Program Survey released October 17, 2001.

A series of live web casts with audio archives from the University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate School feature discussions of Critical Issues in Graduate Education (index), including The Impact of Technology on the Future of Graduate Education and What Students Have to Say About the Graduate School Experience. This second web cast features Chris Golde, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation and Kim Suedkamp-Wells, former President of the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students.

If you are looking for information about writing a thesis or dissertation please see the section on Research: Theses and Dissertations. The section on writing Research Proposals will be of interest to graduate student embarking on a thesis or dissertation.

If you are interested in exploring issues related to quantitative research be sure to visit the Quant Corner. My Qualitative Research site which contains an extensive hypertext Bibliography reflecting the many genres of qualitative inquiry and it provides more detailed information about the research process.