June 1, 2001
Why Do So Many People Leave Graduate School Without a Ph.D.?
Most literature on why students leave doctoral programs asks what's wrong with the student. Barbara E. Lovitts, a former graduate student herself, turned that question on its head and asked instead, What's wrong with the structure of graduate programs?
Ms. Lovitts should know. She left two doctoral programs before finishing a third one, in sociology, at the University of Maryland at College Park in 1996. The experience prompted her to write Leaving the Ivory
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