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Overview
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.
Synopsis
Drawing on the largest survey of doctoral students ever conducted, Three Magic Letters provides a compelling portrait of the graduate school experience and sheds light on mulitple factors critical to the progression of the doctoral degree. 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.
Editorials
DiverseEducation.com
Compelling picture of graduate school life... highlights important factors that contribute to student persistence and success.University Affairs
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.Teachers College Record
Quite possibly, Nettles and Millet have produced what will quickly become a seminal piece of scholarship regarding the Ph.D.Harvard Educational Review
The first major study of doctoral education since In Pursuit of the PhD (1992)... the magnitude of this accomplishment cannot be overstated.Review of Higher Education
This book undoubtedly makes an important contribution to the research literature on doctoral education... It breaks important new ground.— Chris Golde
Inside Higher Ed
An unprecedented look at how students race, walk, or crawl to the finish line.
— Scott Jaschik
Journal of Higher Education
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
Educational Review
Impressive... Will undoubtedly contribute to debates over how to improve doctoral education both in the UK and US, and indeed other countries.— Ingrid Lunt
Inside Higher Ed.
An unprecedented look at how students race, walk, or crawl to the finish line.— Scott Jaschik