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Graduate students need a PhD that makes sense for their real lives

  • Written by Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English and American Studies, Fordham University
imageDoctoral programs often prepare graduates to become professors, but those jobs are scarce today.JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Images

There used to be a time – back in the 1960s – when it made sense for doctoral programs to prepare students to become professors. For that brief postwar moment, there were more jobs for professors than...

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