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Higher Ed Crisis w/ Dennis Hogan

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What's the Function of Training Graduate Students in a Discipline?

27% of all PhDs not being employed as 10-year track or 10-year professors. "It's incredibly bleak," says John Sutter, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania. People are getting these degrees and then graduating into nothing,. They're teaching high school, which is in some cases a really great outcome but not, again, what you're necessarily being trained to do when you get a PhD in a subject like history"

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