Why Graduate Schools Are a Complete Disaster—And How to Fix It

Woman with a spilled ice cream cone
Photograph courtesy of Ryan McGuire
Woman with a spilled ice cream cone
Photograph courtesy of Ryan McGuire

Leonard Cassuto, author and professor of American literature at Fordham, argues that tenured professors have a responsibility to provide graduate students with a realistic image of their professional prospects after graduation, and to help them prepare for outcomes other than permanent academic positions.