Graduate Education
Our news, opinion, and advice stories about graduate education in higher education can answer questions, like:
- Can students pay for graduate school?
- How are universities managing their graduate programs?
- What will graduate education look like in the future?
Advice
Too many Ph.D. students still feel compelled to make their career plans in secret.
Advice
An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.
Advice
With hiring on hold in many sectors, what should graduate students, postdocs, and their universities be doing?
Advice
Five tips to improve your mentoring and make it less time-consuming.
The Review | Essay
The story of a philosopher and her wayward student.
'This is not a drill'
A renewed focus on engagement, some researchers say, is urgent and overdue. “When science is sidelined,” one said, “people get hurt.”
Advice
A lack of oversight and accountability allows abusive faculty mentors to operate unchecked in research labs.
Advice
The old approach — professor as role model and advice giver — is no longer sustainable.
'The Chilling Effect'
Colleges are pausing and resuming offers, reducing spots, and delaying decisions as the Trump administration pushes for research-funding cuts.
Advice
What to tell your Ph.D. students about their nonacademic options.
