Why Your Advice for Ph.D.s Leaving Academe Might Be Making Things Worse

Why Your Advice for Ph.D.s Leaving Academe Might Be Making Things Worse
Erin Bartram, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/04/13
This is a follow-up to the Erin Bartram story, the history PhD who couldn't find a position and left the field, writing a letter about her departure that everyone read. I wrote about it back in February. The Chronicle also published a short abridged version of her article. The original is much better and we know this because the comments that follow from the academic crowd that reads the Chronicle are, well, brutal and unsympathetic. More...