Graduate students and Postdocs

Carnegie Mellon is turning its literary and cultural studies Ph.D. program into one focused on computational cultural studies. The reframe comes as many humanities graduate programs face an uncertain future.

University leaders say they need to slash the budget. Education administration professors say it’ll sever a pipeline to education leadership roles.

Multiple analyses show that in certain programs, like dentistry, as many as half of students may need to take out more debt than a new federal limit allows.

Reading for pleasure is an indispensable part of scholarly formation, Victoria McGovern writes.

By Victoria McGovern

Brown University will give money to some of its graduate students whose federal research grants were cut by the Trump...

The university is advertising the open teaching positions to adjuncts, postdocs and New York–based graduate students at other universities.

The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.

Ph.D. student workers say they’re not planning to resume a walkout this fall after trying in the spring to push the university to host a private union election.