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...face of a shrinking academic job market, GSAS initiated the six-week program to teach Ph.D.'s the "language and jargon of business," Martyn said...
...responded to Dean Rosovsky's milestone report on the state and future of graduate education at the University. Although the Dean issued the report about two years ago, this lack of Faculty feedback to Rosovsky's call for immediate community discussion isn't surprising. Administrators and students at the GSAS feel certain that they are already grappling, if not successfully, with the issues Rosovsky raised in his report--the shrinking job market for academics, shrinking funds, and the shrinking school itself...
Rosovsky, on the other hand, has dramatic plans for the institution that carries out the somewhat anachronistic task of training teachers and researchers for jobs that no longer exist. His request for written comments by Faculty members on his several models for the GSAS of the future was supposed to precipitate the kind of discussion that led to Rosovsky's last success-the Core Curriculum. In fact, from all reports, Rosovsky had pegged GSAS reform as his next pet project...
Rosovsky waits, probably in vain, for widespread community exchange. Administrators at the GSAS have little time theoretical discussion as they pursue the much more immediate task of placing nervous students in any respectable job 9be the equivalent of a $14 million program in this country. The Canadian program gives direct subsidies to thousands of low and middle income homeowners to help them slash their fuel bills. The American program of tax incentives benefits only the rich. To take a tax credit, you have to spend money first. Of the less then 10 per cent of Americans who claimed tax credits...
...Committee on Graduate Education recently rejected any attempt to increase the amount of time graduate students can teach "as being deleterious to gaining an education," Richard Kraus, associate dean of the GSAS, said yesterday...