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10 Steps To Reform Graduate Education In The Humanities, Katina Rogers Dec 2020

10 Steps To Reform Graduate Education In The Humanities, Katina Rogers

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Desperate times call for big changes. Here’s a summary of ten things professors and administrators should do to fix a broken graduate system—and suggestions for graduate students on how to survive in the mean time.


Cgs Research And Policy Forum: Putting The Humanities Phd To Work, Katina Rogers Jun 2020

Cgs Research And Policy Forum: Putting The Humanities Phd To Work, Katina Rogers

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These slides are from a presentation to the quarterly CGS Research & Policy Forum. The forum featured Dr. Katina Rogers and her new book, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020). The talk centers on the notion that career development is not a standalone issue. Rather, it is embedded in questions of equity, inclusion, evaluation, labor structures, and more. There is an underlying stumbling block to meaningful change: a misalignment between values and structures, with a dominant economy of prestige often undermining efforts to support the public good. The structures that …