November 20, 1998

A Student's Suicide Prompts Suggestions for Reforms in Graduate Education

To the Editor:

In my research on doctoral experiences, students described repeated instances in which the climate in their departments and their relationships with their advisers contributed to unhealthy levels of stress (both physical and emotional, sometimes life-threatening) and to their difficulty in making the transition from student to scholar ("Harvard Faces the Aftermath of a Graduate Student's

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