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...less-than-stellar doctoral completion rates, discussing ways to improve student retention, communication, and mentorship. But at Harvard, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) students fare “a lot better” than those at other universities, according to former GSAS Dean Theda Skocpol. Only about 57 percent of the nation’s graduate students complete their Ph.D.’s within 10 years, though graduation rates in different disciplines vary greatly, according to a study released by the Council of Graduate Schools, the workshop’s co-sponsor...
...It’s kind of hard for intellectuals in isolation to take a strong stand when the information that’s in the public sphere is just plain false,” Government professor Theda R. Skocpol said...
...Because of the draft, the embrace of the Ivory Tower was more difficult in the 1960s and 1970s, Skocpol said...
...Today, Skocpol said she thinks few Harvard faculty members have direct ties to soldiers serving in Iraq...
...served under three presidents, four deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, only one provost..but there was a lot of interim-ness,” said former GSAS Dean Theda R. Skocpol this winter, “so it was hard to make progress or big news on big pending problems...