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This book examines the failed graduate school reforms of the past
and presents a plan for a practical and sustainable PhD. For too
many students, today's PhD is a bridge to nowhere. Imagine an
entering cohort of eight doctoral students. By current statistics,
four of the eight-50%!-will not complete the degree. Of the other
four, two will never secure full-time academic positions. The
remaining pair will find full-time teaching jobs, likely at
teaching-intensive institutions. And maybe, just maybe, one of them
will garner a position at a research university like the one where
those eight students began graduate school. But all eight members
of that original group will be trained according to the needs of
that single one of them who might snag a job at a research
university. Graduate school has been preparing students for jobs
that don't exist-and preparing them to want those jobs above all
others. In The New PhD, Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch argue
that universities need to ready graduate students for the jobs they
will get, not just the academic ones. Connecting scholarly training
to the vast array of career options open to graduates requires a
PhD that looks outside the walls of the university, not one that
turns inward-a PhD that doesn't narrow student minds but unlocks
and broadens them practically as well as intellectually. Cassuto
and Weisbuch document the growing movement for a student-centered,
career-diverse graduate education, and they highlight some of the
most promising innovations that are taking place on campuses right
now. They also review for the first time the myriad national reform
efforts, sponsored by major players like Carnegie and Mellon, that
took place between 1990 and 2010, look at why these attempts
failed, and ask how we can do better this time around. A more
humane and socially dynamic PhD experience, the authors assert, is
possible. This new PhD reconceives of graduate education as a
public good, not a hermetically sealed cloister-and it won't happen
by itself. Throughout the book, Cassuto and Weisbuch offer specific
examples of how graduate programs can work to: * reduce the time it
takes students to earn a degree; * expand career opportunities
after graduation; * encourage public scholarship; * create coherent
curricula and rethink the dissertation; * attract a truly
representative student cohort; and * provide the
resources-financial, cultural, and emotional-that students need to
successfully complete the program. The New PhD is a toolbox for
practical change that will teach readers how to achieve consensus
on goals, garner support, and turn talk to action. Speaking to all
stakeholders in graduate education-faculty, administrators, and
students-it promises that graduates can become change agents
throughout our world. By fixing the PhD, we can benefit the entire
educational system and the life of our society along with it.
Long seen as proving grounds for professors, PhD programs have
begun to shed this singular sense of mission. Prompted by poor
placement numbers and guided by the efforts of academic
organizations, administrators and faculty are beginning to
feel called to equip students for a range of careers.
Yet, graduate students, faculty, and administrators
often feel ill-prepared for this pivot. The Reimagined
PhDÂ assembles an array of professionals to address this
difficult issue. The contributors show that students, faculty, and
administrators must collaborate in order to prepare the
21st century PhD for a wide range of careers. The volume also
undercuts the insidious notion that career preparation is a zero
sum game in which time spent preparing for alternate careers
detracts from professorial training. In doing so, The
Reimagined PhDÂ normalizes the multiple career paths open to
PhD students, while providing practical advice geared to help
students, faculty, and administrators
incorporate professional skills into graduate training,
build career networks, and prepare PhDs for a variety
of careers. Â
In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial
relationship between English and American literature in the
nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American
literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and,
finally, to transcend the contemporary British influence.
Describing the transatlantic double-cross of literary influence,
Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature
distinctly different from English models and the English insistence
that any such attempt could only fail. The American response, as he
demonstrates, was to make strengths out of national disadvantages
by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of the self,
and by reinterpreting and ridiculing major British texts in mocking
allusions and scornful parodies. Weisbuch approaches a precise
characterization of this double-cross by focusing on paired sets of
English and American texts. Investigations of the causes, motives,
and literary results of the struggle alternate with detailed
analyses of several test cases. Weisbuch considers Melville's
challenge to Dickens, Thoreau's response to Coleridge and
Wordsworth, Hawthorne's adaptation of Keats and influence on Eliot,
Whitman's competition with Arnold, and Poe's reshaping of Shelley.
Adding a new dimension to the exploration of an emerging aesthetic
consciousness, Atlantic Double-Cross provides important insights
into the creation of the American literary canon.
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