July 11, 2008
Portfolios Are Replacing Qualifying Exams as a Step on the Road to Dissertations
To hear Eve Levin tell it, five years ago the graduate program at the University of Kansas' history department was like many others — filled with small cohorts of anxious, fearful procrastinators.
When she looked at the paths of the department's doctoral students, Ms. Levin, an associate professor of history, found that they were taking an average of eight or nine years to complete their Ph.D.'s, a length of time that, while not that unusual in academe, was hardly ideal for
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