The WSU Recreation and Fitness Center is offering free wall climbs for all students through the month of January. Please see the wall climb schedule below for dates and times. A new study released shows that some students earning doctorate degrees think the training does not prepare them for the jobs they take. This study, which surveyed 40,000 students from various American universities, was conducted by Chris Golde of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Golde said that no more than half of the Ph.D. students will obtain teaching jobs at universities.
Doctoral programs continue to train students to be research faculty.
Hilary Ratner, associate dean of WSU's graduate program, said that many students go on to teach, but said the university is not just training students for teaching positions. She said the university is teaching Ph.D. candidates to realize that there are broader uses for their education. This is one of the things that can be used in a company. Ratner said that the graduate program is providing students with a set of skills to better match the jobs they take. In his study, Golde said that doctoral education is unnecessarily mysterious and showed that some students do not understand how doctoral education works.