Ph.D.’s, Adjuncts, and the Teacher-Training Conundrum

By Paula Krebs - Chronicle Vitae. Well, I complained back in the winter that graduate programs don’t spend enough time talking to teaching-intensive institutions about what they need out of new Ph.D.’s. Grad students ought to know how to get jobs and be successful at colleges and universities with 4-4 and 5-5 teaching responsibilities, so why not ask those institutions what “success” means?
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