November 2, 2001

Teaching Professors How to Teach

To the Editor:

I applaud The Chronicle for publishing Joseph C. Burke's "Graduate Schools Should Require Internships for Teaching" (The Review, October 5), which no doubt will be controversial among academics. Much more is needed. ...

Doctoral programs should also require a good dose of higher-education training.... When I came into academe six years ago, I came with 20 years of business and industry experience in my discipline. ...

I chose to pursue an Ed.D., with a