Links About Academia

Graduate School?

• Definition of Graduate School (everything2.com)
• Keep it simple, stupid (Rob Bossio, sci.research.careers)
• Beware: "Loving science" is not the same as being a scientist (Frank Heasley, sci.research.careers)
• Should I go to graduate school? Short answer: no. (Timothy Burke)
• Notes on the PhD Degree (Douglas Comer)
• School Days (Philip Greenspun)
• What about academia? (Slashdot)
• Chemistry careers (Kimberly Seefeld, misc.jobs.fields.chemistry)
• Caveat Lector (Dorothea and David Salo)
• Wanted: Really Smart Suckers (Anya Kamenetz, the Village Voice)

Academic Politics and Reform

• Survey on Doctoral Education and Career Preparation (Chris M. Golde and Timothy M. Dore)
• The Big Crunch (David Goodstein)
• What will steady state academic physics look like? (Patricia Schwarz, sci.physics)
• Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers
• Re-Envisioning the PhD
• Mentors and Tormentors in Doctoral Education (David Damrosch, Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System that Shapes their Lives (Jeff Schmidt, Review by Andi O'Conor, Education Review)
• UNIVERSITY SECRETS: Your Guide To Surviving a College Education (Robert Honignman)
• The Lab that Fell to Earth (Brendan Koerner, Wired)
• Why should children have to learn science? (Christie Davies, The Social Affairs Unit)
• The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation (Alfie Kohn, Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Higher Education's Meta-Profession (Raoul A. Arreola, The Department Chair)
• Graduate Student Abuse (UCLA)
• The Near Enemy of the Humanities is Professionalism (Lisa Ruddick, Chronicle of Higher Education)

Attrition Issues

• The Hidden Crisis in Graduate Education: Attrition From Ph.D Programs (Barbara Lovitts and Cary Nelson, Academe)
• Is Attrition Important, and Why? (Claudia Mitchell-Kernan)
• Thinking of Leaving? (By Degrees)
• Doctor Dropout (Scott Smallwood, Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Exit Interview: Why People Quit Archaeology (K. Kris Hirst, About.com)

Health Issues

• The Four Stages of Burnout (Mark Gorkin)
• Pursuit of the Ph.D.: Is it good for your health?
• Straight Talk about Graduate School (Dorothea Salo)
• A Tale of Graduate School Burnout (Dorothea Salo)
• Grad school burnout (Dorothea Salo, alt.support.childfree)
• Escaping Early Career Burnout (Mark Gorkin)
• Strange bedfellows (Does academic life lead to divorce?) (Christina Boufis, Salon)
• Conversations with Satan? (Ken Zuroski, sci.med)

Career Planning and Management

• Why Very Few People Need a Ph.D (Richard. A. Lawhern)
• Discouraged Job-Seekers Cite Crisis in Science Career Advice (Robert Finn, The Scientist, Free Registration Required)
• Graduate School and the Job Market of the 1990s: A Survey of Young Geoscientists (Chris Golde and Peter Fiske, EOS Electronic Supplement)
• Thinking about Graduate School in Astronomy? Another View. (Don Barry)
• Contemporary Problems in Science Jobs (Art Sowers, sci.research.careers)
• How to be an academic failure: an introduction for beginners (Carl Elliott)
• No jobs for economics graduate
• Do What You Love and You'll Probably Starve (Marty Nemko, MSN Careers)

Shortage Myths

• How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers (Eric Weinstein)
• Piled Higher and Deeper (Edward Rubenstein, via Art Sowers, sci.research.careers)
• The Science Manpower Shortage...Myth or Reality? (The Scientist)
• Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage (Norman Matloff)
• Angry Engineers Pin Shortage On Low Pay, Layoffs, Age Bias (Sharon Begley, AWC)
• The Mythical Scientist Shortage (Daniel S. Greenberg, The Scientist, Free Registration Required)
• Is There a Shortage of Scientists and Engineers? How Would We Know? (William P. Butz, et al, The Rand Corporation)
• Do We Need More Scientists? (Michael S. Teitelbaum, The Public Interest)

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