Leonard Cassuto
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Leonard Cassuto is a professor of English at Fordham University who writes regularly for The Chronicle about graduate education. His latest book, written with Robert Weisbuch, is The New Ph.D.: How to Build a Better Graduate Education, published in January 2021 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. He welcomes comments and suggestions at lcassuto@erols.com. Find him on Twitter @LCassuto.
Stories by this Author
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AdviceHow to Empower Your Graduate Dean and Save the Ph.D.
It’s time to confer more money and authority on a position whose weakness in the campus hierarchy has always been a given. -
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Key to a Diverse Pool of Doctoral Students? ‘Relevant’ Research
A new program aims to help the students answer a question that many of them struggle with: “What are we doing this for?” -
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On the Dissertation: How to Find a Research Topic
A new book sheds light on a vital academic skill: the art and craft of figuring out what you want to investigate. -
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Why Teaching Still Gets No Respect in Doctoral Training
Graduate school has long proved a flashpoint for the resistance to scrutiny of faculty teaching. Is that finally changing? -
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Great Books, Graduate Students, and the Value of Fun in Higher Education
A generalist-versus-specialist debate is burgeoning, and it’s one that academe badly needs to have — out in the open. -
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How Do We Teach Graduate Students in the Humanities to Collaborate?
A new “lab course” for doctoral students in history builds teamwork skills — and a lot more. -
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How to Begin Fixing Workplace Culture for Graduate Students
Doctoral students often suffer the worst consequences of the faculty’s inattention to the academic workplace. -
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What’s the Best Way to Do Public Humanities? Ask a Philosopher
Not every academic can or should do public outreach, but those who do it well benefit all of academe. -
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Can Yale Reform Its Humanities Doctoral Programs?
Major universities have been slow to acknowledge the collapse of the tenure-track job market. A new report from Yale changes that. -
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How a 2-Day Boot Camp Is Helping Ph.D.s Identify Career Options
A career-diversity program overseas is worth replicating at American universities.
