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Leaving the Ivory Tower
The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study
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Leaving the Ivory Tower
The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study
About this book
Graduate schools have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 percent for the past 40 years. They have tried to address the problem by focusing on student characteristics and by assuming that if they could make better, more informed admissions decisions, attrition rates would drop. Yet high attrition rates persist and may in fact be increasing. Leaving the Ivory Tower thus turns the issue around and asks what is wrong with the structure and process of graduate education. Based on hard evidence drawn from a survey of 816 completers and noncompleters and on interviews with noncompleters, high- and low-Ph.D productive faculty and Directors of Graduate study, this book locates the root cause of attrition in the social structure and cultural organization of graduate education.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Table of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 - The Invisible Problem
- Chapter 2 - Explaining the High and Persistent Rate of Attrition
- Chapter 3 - Explaining Departure
- Chapter 4 - The Lack of Information
- Chapter 5 - The Absence of Community
- Chapter 6 - Disappointment with the Learning Experience
- Chapter 7 - The Quality of the Adviser-Advisee Relationship
- Chapter 8 - The Decision to Leave
- Chapter 9 - Personal Consequences of Departure
- Chapter 10 - Labor Market Consequences of Departure
- Chapter 11 - Conclusions and Recommendations
- Appendix - Most and Least Successful AdviserāAdvisee Relationships from the Point of View of the Faculty
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author