Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities

by Gregory M. Colon Semenza

Book Overview

Many graduate students continue to be regarded as "apprentices" despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the attrition rate for American Ph.D. programs is at an all-time high, between 40% and 50% (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230100333
• ISBN13: 9780230100336
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"