[1994] No Openings at This Time: Job Market Collapse and Graduate Education

LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE these days, I’m concerned about the speed-up in graduate education. The chief cause of our students’ premature professionalization is, of course, the terrible job market — which John Guillory has faulted for propagating intellectual shallowness among our students, by forcing them to become active scholars too soon. Guillory remarks, incidentally, that the social marginalization of literary studies reflected in the job crisis coincides with its strident politicization, which he reads as symptomatic of — and by no means a solution to — the decreased relevance of the discipline itself in contemporary society. What Guillory doesn’t mention, however, is the obvious role that cultural studies plays in the speed-up of graduate studies, and the way its simplistic political imperatives contribute to that speed-up. But it seems to me that the vast new territories cultural studies opens up to scholarship, along with the pressures it creates in all of us to find a hot new cultural topic (in Don DeLillo’s White Noise, one cultural studies professor to another: “I want to do with Elvis what you did with Hitler”), require a reductive politics to enable the quick consumption of knowledge that makes rapid professionalization possible. Our students are no longer surprised by our “commodify or die” ethos.

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That Isn't Real Anthropology: Teaching at the Community College

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.2.2.b3120w14740vl372 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 8-9

Author(s):

Albin Cofone

Keyword(s):

Community College ◽

Community Colleges ◽

Graduate Education ◽

Graduate School ◽

Reading Aloud ◽

Cultural Ecology ◽

Government Agencies ◽

Job Market ◽

Anthropological Theory ◽

Intellectual Challenge

Having gone through graduate school and experienced the academic and intellectual challenge of advanced study, the new anthropologist is often excited by the anticipation of a life evolving around the merits of structuralism, functionalism or cultural ecology. Until recently; it has been almost exclusively the goal of graduate schools to train anthropologists to be fieldworkers and professor. For decades this expectation went unchallenged, but with the emergence of the Seventies and the corresponding decline in the job market, it has become obvious that fewer newly-trained anthropologists will be standing in front of classrooms. Instead they will be seeking their mark in places they may not have anticipated - in government agencies, private foundations, corporations and community colleges. The anthropologist in applied areas in general, and in the community college in particular, must face realities for which his graduate education may not have prepared him. Those vicarious dreams of teaching Crow kinship and reading aloud passages from The Rise of Anthropological Theory may have to be deferred.

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Challenges and Opportunities for International Students in Graduate Education

International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology ◽

10.4018/ijavet.2015100104 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 30-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xinya Liang

Keyword(s):

International Students ◽

Graduate Education ◽

College Campuses ◽

Job Market ◽

Occupational Success ◽

The World ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Business Collaboration ◽

Market Strategies

International students pursuing graduate education in U.S. institutes have been rapidly increasing in recent years. Students from all over the world remarkably contribute to the advancement of U.S. economy and technology. This article addresses the challenges and opportunities international students face during and after graduate education. The challenges include overcoming the barriers with regard to language, culture, and employment. Along with these challenges are numerous opportunities such as introducing a different culture to U.S. college campuses, facilitating long-term academic and business collaboration, and obtaining enriched working experiences in the global job market. Strategies and recommendations to attain academic and occupational success are also discussed.

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