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"Compelling picture of graduate school life... highlights important factors that contribute to student persistence and success." -- DiverseEducation.com
"The book is impressive for not merely telling you what doctoral students are thinking... but in relating what they are thinking to how they are doing -- mentally, financially, socially and professionally." -- University Affairs
"Quite possibly, Nettles and Millet have produced what will quickly become a seminal piece of scholarship regarding the Ph.D." -- Teachers College Record
"The first major study of doctoral education since In Pursuit of the PhD (1992)... the magnitude of this accomplishment cannot be overstated." -- Harvard Educational Review
"This book undoubtedly makes an important contribution to the research literature on doctoral education... It breaks important new ground." -- Chris Golde, Review of Higher Education
"An unprecedented look at how students race, walk, or crawl to the finish line." -- Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
"This informative, comprehensive, and enjoyable book goes far beyond the initial question about funding to examine essentially all aspects of the doctoral experience." -- Kelly Ward; Susan K. Gardner, Journal of Higher Education
"Impressive... Will undoubtedly contribute to debates over how to improve doctoral education both in the UK and US, and indeed other countries." -- Ingrid Lunt, Educational Review
"Three Magic Letters provides a huge amount of new empirical data to help us understand the process of graduate education. The authors' analyses and insights demonstrate substantial understanding of how process variables and socio-demographic factors interact. The analysis of underrepresented minority student experiences, in particular, points directly to actions that graduate schools can and are taking to improve the quality and outcomes of the graduate experience." -- Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools
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Drawing on the largest survey of doctoral students ever conducted, Three Magic Letters provides a compelling portrait of the graduate school experience and identifies key issues affecting the success and failure of doctoral students.
Michael T. Nettles and Catherine M. Millett surveyed more than nine thousand students from the top twenty-one doctorate-granting institutions in the United States. Their findings, based on rational analysis of a vast amount of descriptive data, shed light on multiple factors critical to the progression of the doctoral degree, particularly adequate institutional funding and engaged and accessible faculty mentors.
This comprehensive volume will provide faculty chairs, administrators, and students with information and evidence for assessing their policies, practices, and programs to improve the graduate school experience and the future of the Ph.D.
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AFTER NEARLY A CENTURY OF CONTROVERSY in political and academic arenas over the feasibility, value, and design of doctoral education, the first Ph.D. degree was established in the United States at Yale University in 1860. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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