The Chronicle | February 11, 2013 | Stacey Patton
“The dissertation is broken, many scholars agree. So now what?
Rethinking the academic centerpiece of a graduate education is an obvious place to start if, as many people believe, Ph.D. programs are in a state of crisis. Universities face urgent calls to reduce the time it takes to complete degrees, reduce attrition, and do more to prepare doctoral candidates for nonacademic careers, as students face rising debt and increased competition for a shrinking number of tenure-track jobs.
As a result, many faculty and administrators wonder if now may finally be the time for graduate programs to begin to modernize on a large scale and move beyond the traditional, book-length dissertation.”
For more on the story see: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Dissertation-Can-No-Longer/137215/
