Graduate Students
Stale Ph.D.'s Need Not Apply
Recent job ads reveal a bias, critics say: Search committees aren't interested if your degree is more than a few years old
Candidates interviewed for jobs at the MLA's 2012 annual meeting. Were those who earned their Ph.D.'s more than three years earlier at a disadvantage?
September 19, 2012
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When Harvard University and Colorado State University recently posted job ads indicating that applicants should be very recent recipients of Ph.D.'s, many people saw the ads as confirmation of something they already suspected about the unspoken...
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