LEAVING THE IVORY TOWER by Lovitts, Barbara E ISBN 0742509419
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Graduate schools have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 per cent since 1960. This study examines what is wrong with the structure and process of graduate education in its aim to locate the root cause of attrition in the social structure and cultural organization.
Graduate schools in the US have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 percent for the past 40 years. They have tried to address the problem by focusing on student characteristics and by assuming that if they could make better, more informed admissions decisions, attrition rates would drop. Yet high attrition rates persist and may in fact be increasing. This study thus turns the issue around and asks what is wrong with the structure and process of graduate education. Based on hard evidence drawn from a survey of 816 completers and noncompleters; interviews with noncompleters, high- and low-Ph.D productive faculty and Directors of Graduate study, the study locates the root cause of attrition in the social structure and cultural organization of graduate education. The study breaks new ground in many areas and opens several new lines of research. It explains why the high rate of attrition has persisted for so many decades. It explains the stable pattern of attrition between disciplines, while at the same time explaining the variability in attrition rates across departments in the same discipline. It is the first study to explore in-depth the process of deciding to leave (and return to) a graduate course and to ask ex-students policy-relevant questions about what could have prevented their attrition and what could be done to make graduate school a better experience. It is also the first study to explore the personal and professional consequences of attrition.
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[edit] Title
LEAVING THE IVORY TOWER
[edit] Author
Lovitts, Barbara E
[edit] ISBN
0742509419
[edit] Published
29/06/2001
[edit] Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Inc.
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
61 (GBP)
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59.78 (GBP)
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