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Knowles and Wolff both say students take too long to obtain their degrees, which forces the University to pay for more loans and causes stagnancy in the academic system...
...Wolff says one of his primary challenges in the next three years will be to work on this problem...
...hard to determine what created this situation. But enormous increases in tuition required students to take on more teaching responsibilities which left them little time to pursue their dissertations," Wolff says...
...agree with Maher that we have to resolve the problem [of long graduate careers]," Wolff says. In the humanities where the average time to complete the dissertation is eight to nine years, the problem is especially acute...
...Wolff says that students also lack incentive to finish their dissertations promptly because they have difficulty finding employment in their fields...