Graduate Education
News, opinions and advice for graduate students in higher education.
Advice
Campus employment fairs aren’t just for undergraduates. Here’s what to expect if you’re a graduate student exploring your options.
Advice
Predictions and hopes for the future of Ph.D. training.
Advice
How to direct history students toward fulfilling nonacademic careers, and make the case for the value of the field.
Advice
Two Ph.D.s who left academe and now run their own businesses offer advice on professional transitions.
Advice
Dos and don’ts for making your writing project relevant as it moves from proposal to manuscript to promotion.
Advice
Too many academics in the humanities are trapped in a cycle of professional discontent.
'There’s Some Kind of Mistake'
Labor activism has graduate teaching assistants out-earning some faculty members in the University of California system.
Advice
How collective bargaining is already starting to alter the landscape of doctoral education.
Advice
How a national project aims to give master’s and doctoral students the same level of attention as first-year undergraduates.
Tech Interference
Boston University clarified that no one believes artificial intelligence can replace graduate-student teaching assistants.