Ph.D. Placement Project

By Erin E. Templeton. Regular readers of the Chronicle are surely familiar with the ongoing discussion about the merits of graduate education both generally and in the humanities more specifically. Whatever your position on the “Go!/Don’t Go!” debate (note: two different links), one thing is clear: more information about where Ph.D.s end up would be very helpful both to potential candidates, employers, and the professoriate more generally. In his most recent column, William Pannapacker threw down the gauntlet, so to speak. Read more...