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Simpson speculates that the success of so many English graduate students this year was likely due to the department’s structure as a “vocational program” that produces not only “technically competent scholars” but also employable candidates with desirable...
“We’re continuing to graduate outstanding Ph.D. students who would love to go on to an academic career, but the market is not very strong for them,” he says. “Should we just have them flipping burgers or should we...
But Kitagawa also notes that while being a college fellow was a “good experience,” the program was “just established a year ago, so not too many institutions recognize what I did.”
But not every graduate student is convinced that this year’s reported success exempts Harvard students from a national trend.
According to William Pannapacker, a Harvard English graduate student in the 1990s and a contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education, one year of success is not enough evidence to ignore the gravity of the “academic labor market.”