Educating Scholars : : Doctoral Education in the Humanities / / Sharon M. Brucker, Jeffrey A. Groen, Harriet Zuckerman, Ronald G. Ehrenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Ehrenberg, Ronald G.,; Groen, Jeffrey A.,; Zuckerman, Harriet,
• TeilnehmendeR: Groen, Jeffrey A.,; Zuckerman, Harriet,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 19 line illus. 64 tables.

Despite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not well in this area of higher education and hasn't been for some time. The content of graduate programs has undergone major changes, while high rates of student attrition, long times to degree, and fi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Part I. Data, Methods, and Context
• Chapter 2. Data Collection, Outcome Measures, and Analytical Tools
• Chapter 3. The Departments
• Part II. Influences on Attrition, Completion, and Time-to-Degree
• Chapter 4. The Impact of the Graduate Education Initiative on Attrition and Completion
• Chapter 5. The Influence of Financial Support
• Chapter 6. The Influence of Doctoral Program Designs
• Chapter 7. The Role of Gender and Family Status
• Part III. Transition from Graduate Study to Career
• Chapter 8. Attrition and Beyond
• Chapter 9. Early Careers
• Chapter 10. Publications: Patterns and Influences
• Part IV. Lessons and Findings
• Chapter 11. Redesigning Doctoral Programs: Lessons Learned
• Chapter 12. Principal Findings and Implications
• Appendixes
• Appendix A. Data Collection
• Appendix B. Questionnaire for the Graduate Education Survey
• Appendix C. Outcome Measures
• Appendix D. Methodology
• Appendix E. Additional Tables and Figures
• References
• Index