ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

@anne_kreft @johank76 @TEG @SteveCooke @grimmiges @Xna_NaJu @jocelyn_etienne @JorgeStolfi @academicchatter I I always tell prospective Ph.D. students to present the "I want to be a faculty just like you" narrative regardless of their actual goal. In private and safe spaces you can say otherwise, because you are so right.

@rspfau @grimmiges @allanmccoy @JorgeStolfi @david_colquhoun @SteveCooke @freyablekman @SerhatTutkal @anne_kreft @jocelyn_etienne @academicchatter I think this is more widespread, and highlights the importance of prospective students know the difference between fully funded and self funded programs. I see this a lot with "professional" doctorates like ED.D. the quality of these programs tends to be much lower from a research perspective and the field recognizes that. They do provide more flexibility and often can work full time while completing the program. Unfortunately students don't know this sometimes and end with $250,000+ in student loans and limited prospects.

@jocelyn_etienne @TEG @anne_kreft @SteveCooke @academicchatter
This is a US perspective, but I think it's important to make the point of that the unemployment rate for Ph.D. holder is less than 2% fairly consistently.
I think the problem is that faculty in Ph.D. programs over focus on tenure track positions as the "best" or "worthy" pathway, when less than 10% of graduates of even some of the best programs end there.
In fairness for students there should be more transparency and support for other careers, and I don't mean just the growing world of post-doc researchers trying to get academic jobs.
In my field, education, I have seen graduates work for a very wide range of employers including tech, think thanks, school districts, museums, and many non-TT jobs at universities like me.

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I probably should have shared this earlier. Virtually all Research 1 US universities stipend Ph.D. students for their TAing or research assistantship (max 20hrs/week)
The UC system, the largest public university system in the US and I think the world is unionized, as are most others.
UC grad students just negotiated a new contract that is equivalent to a $95,000/year full time salary (they will get $34,000 for 50% 9 months employment, or about $45,000 for 12 months, full tuition remission, health benefits, child care, and leave.

https://www.science.org/content/article/grad-student-unions-strike-controversial-deal-university-california