Recently I wrote about the dirty little secret in academia: That the majority of PhD students do not end up in faculty positions, but instead work in government, for NGOs, or elsewhere in industry. In that piece, I argued that (1) this situation isn’t entirely new, (2) interpreting it as a type of failure makes assumptions about … Continue reading
Contributed by David Barner By some accounts, there is a dirty little secret in academia, a secret which applies to psychology departments, and most other departments on campus: Most PhD students will not end up on the other side of the desk in tenure track positions, and worse, only the best-of-the-best PhDs, from the best-of-the-best … Continue reading
