Editor’s Note: This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “The Future of Graduate Education,” available in the Chronicle Store. It’s dicey to predict the future in the best of times.

A lack of action on long-standing issues coupled with recent societal disruptions has led to growing tensions and challenges between graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and the faculty and ...

“Dr. Silk’s leadership and strategic planning experience, both as department chair at UD and in her role as senior associate ...

Editor's Note: This interview was conducted in late 2024 and is meant to look at long-term changes in graduate education, not short-term. CU Boulder Provost Russell Moore announced last fall that he ...

As a long-time observer of hiring trends, I’m increasingly concerned about the career prospects of graduate students and postdocs in the next few years. This will very likely be the worst job market ...

ATLANTA — Two construction cranes hover over a giant worksite just outside the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. What they’re building is both a show of optimism in ...

Professor of Physics and Science Education Eric Brewe, PhD, was recently appointed to the role of Associate Dean of Graduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences. Brewe’s research focuses on ...

Enrollment in graduate and postgraduate programs declined from 2021 to 2022 even as the number of applications increased, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools. Applications ...

The Secondary Special Education concentration in the 4+1 track of the M.Ed in Exceptional Children and Youth Program is for current UD undergraduate secondary education majors or elementary teacher ...

The Department of Education has proposed changing the definition of what constitutes a “professional degree” to exclude nursing — a move that could significantly limit nurses’ access to graduate ...