Graduate education

Stanford pledges to pay for a master's in education for humanities Ph.D.s who want to become high school teachers.

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.

Across disciplines, the proportion of those completing doctorates with commitments for employment or a postdoc falls.

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

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.

Founder of UT-Austin's community college leadership program, the field's big fish, is moving to a for-profit, fueling worries about the future of the program's affiliates, NISOD and CCCSE.

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.