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Educating scholars : doctoral education in the humanities /
Despite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not well in this area of higher education and hasn't been for some time. The content of graduate programs has undergone major changes, while high rates of student attrition, long times to degree, and fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Despite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not well in this area of higher education and hasn't been for some time. The content of graduate programs has undergone major changes, while high rates of student attrition, long times to degree, and financial burdens prevail. In response, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 1991 launched the Graduate Education Initiative (GEI), the largest effort ever undertaken to improve doctoral programs in the humanities and related social sciences. The only book to focus exclusively on the current state of doctoral edu. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-336) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400831524 1400831520 1282463268 9781282463264 1282935771 9781282935778 9786612935770 6612935774 9786612463266 6612463260 |