Grand Canyon University was fined $37.7 million by the US Education Department. We want to state upfront that the school is vehemently defending itself from what it has termed “lies and [...]
Ross Stevens, Ph.D. ’96, has gifted $100 million to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business’s PhD Program. Madhav Rajan, Booth’s dean, explained, “Thanks to [...]
Inside Higher Ed has a nice editorial on the importance of Ph.D.s connecting with others outside their departments. We unequivocally support all of their arguments and believe the editorial is [...]
Duke’s Graduate Students Union (DGSU) has petitioned the university to accelerate the release of a promised $500 payment on the first day of classes. They also cited Durham’s [...]
The Daily Nous has a nice blog about what is going on with the current volume of philosophy Ph.D. applications. The blog, linked above, shares some anecdotal evidence from schools reporting [...]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a great article about how the current pandemic has caused well over 100 Ph.D. programs to pause admissions. The silver lining here is that [...]
If you haven’t yet heard the news, the University of Chicago English department declared that they will only be admitting graduate school applicants interested in “working in and with [...]
Yesterday, the University of Chicago announced new funding guidelines for Ph.D. students in humanities and social sciences. These reforms will take two years to fully roll out and will be made [...]
Brown University dropped the GRE requirement for 24 of its Ph.D. programs. The decision is effective immediately, which will be welcome news for many prospective 2020 matriculants. It’s [...]
Richard Vedder wrote a great editorial in Forbes earlier today about the underemployment among English Ph.D. graduates and what is preventing the needed ‘market correction.’ We think [...]