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The Graduate School Mess

What Caused It and How We Can Fix It

Leonard Cassuto

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$29.95 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674728981

Publication Date: 09/14/2015

320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

2 line illustrations

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Leonard Cassuto is Professor of English at Fordham University.

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In the Chronicle of Higher Education, read Leonard Cassuto’s spring 2019 exchange with Association of University Presses (AUP) president Jennifer Crewe on the issues facing scholarly publishers—and the future of the monograph
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, read Professor Cassuto’s warning that the language we use to describe employment after graduation—“career diversity,” or “alt-ac”?—has an impact on how graduate students, faculty, and administrations conceive of and plan for success
In the Los Angeles Times, read Cassuto’s plea for “real jobs” for newly-minted Ph.D.s
In the Washington Post education blog “Grade Point,” read about four of Cassuto’s recommendations for reshaping graduate education
Read the Chronicle of Higher Education’s interview with Cassuto
Read a conversation about The Graduate School Mess with Cassuto in the 2016 edition of Higher Education Exchange [PDF download]
Watch Cassuto lecture on how to fix graduate education at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service
On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, listen to Cassuto explain why graduate schools must cease selling the dream of an outcome, tenured professorship, that no longer exists
Read an excerpt from The Graduate School Mess at Salon
In the Washington Post, read Leonard Cassuto’s overview of why graduate schools are “a complete disaster”
At The Conversation, read Cassuto’s outlining of the damage done by poor teaching in graduate education
Read about The Graduate School Mess in the Fordham News
Read Cassuto’s “Graduate Adviser” columns at CHE
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