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Graduate liberal arts education is undergoing a crisis. Suffering from the same financial depression as the non-scholarly world, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has had to re-evaluate its future in terms of pressing economic constraints. Academia, the traditional employment stronghold of graduate students, no longer offers the job opportunities guaranteed by professional schools, and the population decline has forced many schools to close, taking with them potential jobs for graduate students...
...problems, which were anticipated ten years ago and articulated in a report by Dean Rosovsky earlier this year, remain the focus of concern for GSAS administrators and individual departments. Besides the more general considerations affecting the quality of the nation's graduate education, GSAS students and Faculty also spent this year discussing internal administrative problems peculiar to Harvard. No group initiated substantial changes, because "change at the GSAS is like a slow-moving ship," says Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the GSAS. But administrators and students have clearly maneuvered into positions from which to take action next year...
Trevor Barnes is a Kennedy Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences [GSAS]. Barnes, a native of Cambridge, England, has been studying the activities...
...Fewer students have the money to make it all the way through a four-year doctorate program," a GSAS admissions officer said yesterday...
Unlike the GSAS and the Law School, the B-School's flexible, twoyear relatively inexpensive curriculum attracts future executives trying to wedge their way into a tight job market...