April 1, 2008
Graduate-School Leaders Want Ph.D. Candidates to Finish Sooner and With Better Job Prospects
Arlington, Va.
Doctoral programs in the humanities and sciences should take basic steps to improve their students' completion rates and career prospects, several speakers said on Monday during a workshop here sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools and the National Science Foundation.
Many potential students, faced with Ph.D. programs that can take nearly a decade to complete and that offer hazy career paths, "decide that they want nothing to do with us," said Lewis M. Siegel, vice provost for
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