Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go
“I have found that most prospective graduate students have given little thought to what will happen to them after they complete their doctorates … The reality is that less than half of all doctorate holders — after nearly a decade of preparation, on average — will ever find tenure-track positions.
It’s hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their idealism and energy — and lack of information — are an exploitable resource. If you cannot find a tenure-track position, your university will no longer court you; it will pretend you do not exist and will act as if your unemployability is entirely your fault. It will make you feel ashamed, and you will probably just disappear, convinced it’s right rather than that the game was rigged from the beginning.”
I don’t know if this situation is specific to the humanities, or to American universities, but fucking hell that’s bleak.
Thx Andrew.
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I wish that these kinds of articles would stop being written so I could engage in the kind of denial it claims that...
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