Graduate Education

Should universities require graduate students to pare down years of research into a soundbite that can be understood by non-scholars?

As Stanford spurs discussion of trimming time-to-degree for Ph.D.s, CUNY offers model for public institutions that might want to kill tradition of grad school as a place you "check in and never check out."

Seeking to supplement traditional forms of graduate program assessment, U. of Minnesota pilots an approach that asks key questions about students' needs and goals.

Temple was the first institution to offer a doctorate in African-American studies and has seen heated debates over the discipline's direction. The rejection of the department's choice as chair has set off a new controversy.

Despite ever-growing concern about student debt, enrollment lags in federal government programs that tie loan repayment to borrowers' income.

New graduate enrollments fall, with notable declines in students from the U.S. Decreases are greatest for education and arts and humanities.

Cal State told campuses they couldn't admit graduate students in the spring if they lived in the state, but they could take non-Californians and their tuition revenue. At East Bay, one department won't go along.

U.S. research universities' global dominance will be threatened in coming years unless governments invest more and universities become more efficient and better educate under-represented groups, according to new National Research Council report.

Shift from local to far-flung branch campuses in some parts of the country reflects changes in educational delivery and demand.

New study documents relationship between job market and time to degree in the humanities and social sciences, but it’s not as straightforward as many speculate.