Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id SAA08484 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 18:03:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id UAA28420; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 20:01:49 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 20:01:48 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: doc-talk CHE Chronicles Grad Woes (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell Institute for Research in Social Science e-mail: cassell@irss.unc.edu University of North Carolina Ph: 919/962-0782 Fx: 919/962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 14:28:03 -0700 (PDT) From: owner-doc-talk@quake.net To: doc-talk@asgs.org Subject: doc-talk CHE Chronicles Grad Woes =================================================================== DOC-TALK =================================================================== On Tue, 30 Sep 97 The Chronicle of Higher Education reported a review of an article in the September issue of Spin Magazine, entitled, "Meet the New OverEducated Underclass." We pass it along FYI--rdt ========================================= Graduate school, once contemplated by nearly every idealistic undergraduate, now has become "an invitation to purgatory," writes Eric Weisbard, one of the magazine's senior writers. More than 40,000 students will receive their doctorates this year. Few have illusions about what awaits them: a handful of good jobs, each sought by hundreds of applicants; university presses that are increasingly unwilling to publish the academic books needed to gain tenure; and protracted separations from loved ones, the author says. Mr. Weisbard writes that what galls today's unemployed is that they were encouraged to enter graduate school, amid forecasts of an expected wave of faculty retirements beginning in the mid-1990s. Instead, universities have chosen to replace retiring professors with a cadre of graduate instructors, who work cheap, and often with no benefits. Mr. Weisbard concludes that the old professorial apprenticeship has become "a way to cloak the creation of an academic underclass." (The magazine can be found at newsstands.) =================================================================== DOC-TALK SPONSORED BY THE ASSOC FOR SUPPORT OF GRADUATE STUDENTS ===================================================================