April 30, 1999

Master's Degrees Are the Hot Topic at a Meeting on Doctoral Education

By DENISE K. MAGNER

Programs in the humanities are seen as a way to sustain graduate enrollments without adding more Ph.D.'s to the faculty-job market

Scholars in the humanities came here to talk about the future of doctoral education, but somehow the conversation kept turning to the master's degree.

For only the second time in its history, the Modern Language Association convened a national meeting on doctoral education. Nearly 200 professors,

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