It is no secret that American graduate education is in disarray.
Graduate students take too long to complete their studies and face
a dismal academic job market if they succeed. The Graduate School
Mess gets to the root of these problems and offers concrete
solutions for revitalizing graduate education in the humanities.
Leonard Cassuto, professor and graduate education columnist for The
Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that universities' heavy
emphasis on research comes at the expense of teaching. But teaching
is where reforming graduate school must begin. Cassuto says that
graduate education must recover its mission of public service.
Professors should revamp the graduate curriculum and broaden its
narrow definition of success to allow students to create more
fulfilling lives for themselves both inside and outside the
academy. Cassuto frames the current situation foremost as a
teaching problem: professors rarely prepare graduate students for
the demands of the working worlds they will actually join. He gives
practical advice about how faculty can teach and advise graduate
students by committing to a student-centered approach. In chapters
that follow the career of the graduate student from admissions to
the dissertation and placement, Cassuto considers how each stage of
graduate education is shaped by unexamined assumptions and ancient
prejudices that need to be critically confronted. Written with
verve and infused with history, The Graduate School Mess returns
our national conversation about graduate study in the humanities to
first principles.
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