Tipsters, I strongly encourage you to read the following article in the
Chronicle which concerns the following:
Are too many of the best new psychology Ph.D.'s taking jobs in industry rather
than in academe? How should Ph.D. programs respond to the increased interest of
their graduate students in working for industry?
It can be freely obtained if you visit:
http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i18/18a01001.htm
You can submit your questions/comments in a forum at:
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/
Here is a quote from the article (particularly the second paragraph) that I
thought was noteworthy:
When students like Mr. Boyd jump ship, not only does academe
lose a potential
faculty member, but programs cannot rely on
those Ph.D.'s to burnish their
institutional reputation
through scholarship and teaching. Mr. Boyd, for
example, is
now of little use to the Stanford department. "It's unlikely
he's
going to publish, go to conventions, or teach," Mr.
Zimbardo says of his former
student. "A lot of the value that
went into teaching him will be wasted. He
will be lost in
terms of that luster for the department."
Students and
professors alike have become all too aware of
that fact, and that threatens to
undermine the student-teacher
relationship as students keep their intentions
under wraps.
Professors can't bask in any reflected glory when their
apprentice
joins a team of researchers at, say, Microsoft.
"Many of our graduate students
know from the start that they
don't want to go into the academy," says Richard
C. McCarty,
the executive director for science at the American
Psychological
Association. "But they keep it quiet because
they know their advisers aren't
open to that."
Enjoy.
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