By Vimal Patel. As a growing number of students across the country push campuses to become more racially inclusive, one of their key demands is that administrators do more to diversify the faculty. More...

By Vimal Patel. Like countless graduate-student teaching assistants before him, Bret Eynon stepped before his first class of undergraduates bewildered and poorly trained. More...

By Vimal Patel. Do American universities produce too many Ph.D.s?
It’s a decades-old question that has intensified in recent years as worries about a stagnant academic-job market, record graduate-student debt, and the often-tough working conditions for doctoral students have grown. More...

By Vimal Patel. For Ksenia Krylova, the years she has spent earning her Ph.D. have been largely worry free, at least when it comes to money. More...

By Vimal Patel. When Sydney Glassman started her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California here, she was sure she wanted to be a professor. But many factors, she says, make her less certain of that today. More...

By Vimal Patel. After taking an academic risk to use an alternative form for his dissertation — a comic book about visual thinking — he successfully defended it in 2014 and earned his doctorate in interdisciplinary. More...

By Vimal Patel. Due in part to a weakening academic job market, some colleges and higher-education groups are scrambling to collect data on what sorts of jobs Ph.D.’s are getting. The American Historical Association recently pinpointed where 2,500 history Ph.D. More...