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
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.
Advice
An English department reversed its enrollment slide and reinvigorated graduate training, too.
Scholarship & Research
The sudden withdrawal affects early-career scholars who applied for a prestigious federal grant with a diversity notation — flagging that they came from underrepresented backgrounds.
Advice
If you don’t know how to advise your doctoral students on industry career options, why not partner with experts who can?
Advice
Dos and don’ts for defending your scholarly writing from a harsh critique.
Advice
Help your department’s grad students take back control from a system that often seems designed to make them feel powerless.
