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

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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"

Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism. Read Dan's interview in The Nation thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com Buy On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich haymarketbooks.org/books/1949-on-shedding-an-obsolete-past