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In our new book, The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education, we make a case for student-centered, career-diverse, public-facing graduate school. But we also acknowledge the challenge of change, a challenge graduate education has not met for decades...

Ask most high school students or adults to give word associations with “college,” and they typically respond with: freedom, opportunities, friends, learning, or other broad and generally positive, hope-filled language. Ask them to respond to “college admission...

Dear Parents, As we walked to our car with our first-born in arms on an icy Minnesota morning in November 1996, nothing could have been further from my wife’s or my mind than college. We were more interested in answering “now what?” than thinking forward...

We conceived of this book in the spring of 2016 in response to the fragmented and incomplete state of the literature that informs debates and decisions related to college admission testing. For many students, teachers, parents, policymakers – frankly, nearly...