Degrees of Success, Degrees of Failure: The Changing Dynamics of the English PhD and Small-College Careers.
2000; Modern Language Association; Volume: 1; Issue: 126 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2689-1123
Autores Tópico(s)Education Systems and Policy
ResumoI have taught for twenty-five years at the University of Iowa, and in that time I've mentored doctoral students who have gone on to entry-level po sitions at the following colleges: Luther, Saint John's, Bethel, Elon, Carle ton, Grinnell, Central, Wooster, Drake, Wittenberg, Mary Washington, Augustana, Hope, Wartburg, Cardinal Stritch, College of Saint Mary, Mount Holyoke, Puget Sound, Gustavus Adolphus, Hobart and William Smith, Saint Olaf, Kalamazoo, Lafayette, Millsaps, Mount Mercy, Findlay, Viterbo. This Whitmanesque catalog of small-college America is an in complete one?I could in fact add many more. In the same period, I've had students take positions at the following AAU institutions with prominent English PhD programs: Wisconsin and Berkeley. That is a complete list. A few others have taken jobs at large institutions with graduate programs in English, like Kansas State and Texas Tech, but most of my doctoral stu dents became professors at small colleges. And, perhaps not surprisingly, most of them did their own undergraduate work in small colleges. What is surprising, at least to many of my colleagues, are the implica tions of an important change in dynamics over the past ten years at institu tions like Iowa. We once were happy to build our graduate classes out of the best English majors from small colleges in the Midwest, students who for the most part were excited about taking jobs and forming careers in
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