The NY Times reports that the emotional health of college freshmen is at a 25-year low, based on the annual survey conducted by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute. In the survey, “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” involving more than 200,000 incoming full-time students at four-year colleges, the percentage of students rating themselves as “below average” in emotional health rose. Meanwhile, the percentage of students who said their emotional health was above average fell to 52 percent. It was 64 … [Read more...] about Freshmen, Stress, and Spirituality
gender
Where did you find your megaphone?
This is the first of four guest posts from Janine Giordano, a graduate student and ESN member from the University of Illinois, on the topic of cultivating your voice and finding your audience while in graduate school. When she is not teaching, she spends most of her time working on her dissertation, Between Religion and Politics: The Working Class Religious Left, 1886-1936. … [Read more...] about Where did you find your megaphone?
Ph.D. Completion Gaps
Inside Higher Ed reports on new data from the Council of Graduate Schools's Ph.D. Completion Project. It finds "significant gaps" in Ph.D. completion rates among different demographic groups. IHE's summary: Generally, foreign, male, and white students are more likely to earn their doctorates after 10 years than are their counterparts who are American, female or minority. The gaps vary greatly across disciplines. For example, in engineering, life sciences, and physical sciences, men are more likely to finish their … [Read more...] about Ph.D. Completion Gaps