Barbara E. Lovitts

Leaving the Ivory Tower (eBook, ePUB)

The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Graduate schools 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. Leaving the Ivory Tower 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 and on interviews with noncompleters, high- and low-Ph.D productive faculty and Directors of Graduate study, this book locates the root cause of attrition in the social structure and cultural organization of graduate education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780585383644
• Artikelnr.: 39550226

Autorenporträt

By Barbara E. Lovitts

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 The Invisible Problem
Chapter 4 Explaining the High and Persistent Rate of Attrition Chapter 5
Explaining Departure Chapter 6 The Lack of Information Chapter 7 The
Absence of Community Chapter 8 Disappointment with the Learning Experience
Chapter 9 The Quality of the Advisor/Advisee Relationship Chapter 10 The
Decision to Leave Chapter 11 Personal Consequences of Departure Chapter 12
Labor Market Consequences of Departure Chapter 13 Conclusions and
Recommendations Chapter 14 Appendix Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16
Index