Leaving the Ivory Tower : The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0742509427
ISBN-13
9780742509429
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 27th, 2001
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
462 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 16.20 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Social research & statisticsColleges of higher educationUniversities
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Graduate schools have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 per cent since 1960. This study examines what is wrong with the structure and process of graduate education in its aim to locate the root cause of attrition in the social structure and cultural organization.
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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