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In recent years the folly of this system has become increasingly evident: there are few tenure-track jobs for the graduate students being trained to work in the most specialized domains, and undergraduates are often left to wonder how courses taught by these narrowly trained specialists are supposed to connect to their lives after college.

Michael Roth: Virtuous Circle of Teaching and Research Michael Roth 2010

In recent years the folly of this system has become increasingly evident: there are few tenure-track jobs for the graduate students being trained to work in the most specialized domains, and undergraduates are often left to wonder how courses taught by these narrowly trained specialists are supposed to connect to their lives after college.

Michael Roth: Virtuous Circle of Teaching and Research Michael Roth 2010

And then there is the fact that there is no guarantee that all this training will get one a coveted tenure-track job.

Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

"Sometimes I am a writer with a book out, degrees from Columbia and Iowa, a list of fancy publication credentials and a tenure-track job," she says, "which considering how many writers work hard their whole lives to have the opportunity for any of that, let alone all of that, makes me rather clearly an 'insider,' in some circles."

Danielle Evans, an author straddling racial divides DeNeen L. Brown 2010

And then there is the fact that there is no guarantee that all this training will get one a coveted tenure-track job.

Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

I have no guarantee of a tenure-track job, and any I'm likely to get will pay very little, hardly justifying living like a monk for my most vibrant years.

Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

Of people who received Ph.D.s in the biological sciences five to six years ago, only 13% have tenure-track positions leading to a professorship, says Paula Stephan, who studies the economics of science at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

USA and other countries need to re-tool their science programs 2011

That 33% of Ph.D.s in non tenure-track positions is especially troubling, she says.

USA and other countries need to re-tool their science programs 2011

I have no guarantee of a tenure-track job, and any I'm likely to get will pay very little, hardly justifying living like a monk for my most vibrant years.

Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

"Sometimes I am a writer with a book out, degrees from Columbia and Iowa, a list of fancy publication credentials and a tenure-track job," she says, "which considering how many writers work hard their whole lives to have the opportunity for any of that, let alone all of that, makes me rather clearly an 'insider,' in some circles."

Danielle Evans, an author straddling racial divides DeNeen L. Brown 2010