Inside Higher Ed reports more job postings for PhD’s in history than ever before. Quite a switch from recent history. However, the paper hastens to add that most of the jobs pertain to Asian or African history. Furthermore more and more positions are part-time and non-tenure track.
Graduate Program Options: Merge or Close?
Inside Higher Ed reports on a possible merger between the German departments at Duke and UNC Chapel Hill, two small struggling programs. According to Inside Higher Ed: "In so doing, the two universities believe that their programs could catapult to among the largest — if not the largest — in the country, with 18 full-time…
Essay Tip: What to Do If You Procrastinated.
I was looking for something on the old blog and came across a post that I thought was timely and worth repeating. I wrote it in early January 2005, when my daughter was applying for grad school (She got in and then decided she didn’t want to go.) It gives advice for those of you…
Businessweek B-School Rankings 2006
Businessweek has published its bi-annual b-school rankings. The Top 10 US schools Chicago Wharton Kellogg Harvard Michigan Stanford MIT Sloan UC Berkeley (Haas) Duke (Fuqua) Columbia Businessweek prides itself on presenting a ranking of customer satisfaction. The "customers" are MBA students and recruiters, who are surveyed for this report. To use Businessweek’s data, please first…
US News 2007 College Rankings:
For those of you who have not yet seen it yet, the Top Ten in US News this year are: 1. Princeton University(NJ) 2. Harvard University(MA) 3. Yale University(CT) 4. California Institute of Technology 4. Stanford University(CA) 4. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 7. University of Pennsylvania 8. …
Personal Statement Tip: Dealing with Hardship
A friend of mine was recently going through a hard time. Things were going wrong, seriously wrong in her life. She wryly labeled these experiences "character building." It is a sad truth that tragedy and trial build character strength and develop wisdom. Most of us would rather be weaker and stupider than have character building…