Because of the tight job market for professors, she said, Ph.D. students are forced to look elsewhere. The training doctoral students receive is not what they want, nor does it prepare them for the jobs they take. The study showed that graduate students said they felt unprepared both for careers as professors or for careers outside of academe. I think it's responsible for programs to be very explicit about what they do or don't do. While many graduate students act as teaching assistants for classes, educational training is not a typical part of the curriculum, Golde noted.
Most students just try to survive their first year.
You can't do it as a completely goal-oriented thing that you're suffering through. Poggi emphasized that students in her department gain museum experience through internships, and classroom experience by teaching recitations as well as College of General Studies and Writing Across the University courses. But Graduate and Professional Student Association Chair Kyle Farley, a fourth-year history grad student, said that the department's expectations were clear to him. One Web site. Student Advantage, Inc.