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Are We Not Apprentices?

by Anders | May 1, 2013 | Secretary's Blog

  • The Dissertation is just an apprenticeship in research, says one grad student. She offers a list of what seems like very sound advice. But I wonder: as the academic guild continues to give way to a ‘creative industries’ logic, are we still at liberty to consider our dissertations as merely embroidery samplers, or do we need to be thinking about their market value right off the bat?
  • Amidst all the talk of alt-ac careers, someone finally took a poll. It reveals what we’ve been hearing around Brown: many grad students feel a lack of advisor support for non-faculty careers.
  • Meanwhile, here are three good arguments for pursuing a non-faculty career, especially in tech.
  • Speaking of actual data, here’s a rundown of the universities getting the most federal money.
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