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"Faculty member Betsy Lucal now strongly urges any student who will listen to reconsider their plans to earn a Ph.D."
Summary from Academica Top Ten - Monday, September 26, 2016:
"“I think they should not do it,” says IHE contributor of pursuing a PhD “I strongly urge any student who will listen to reconsider their plans to go on to earn a PhD,” writes Betsy Lucal for Inside Higher Ed.
A professor at Indiana University South Bend, Lucal writes that universities’ increasing tendency to cut costs and follow the principles of “consumerism, individual empowerment and self-interest” has created a higher ed landscape in which she, a tenured professor, questions whether she will be able to make a living from academia for the remainder of her career.
Lucal outlines a number of other reasons to avoid earning a PhD and entering academia."
Via iPamba
