Category: Graduate School
The Cascading Labor Market of Underemployment
| May 2, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Graduate School, Teaching, Work |
Tomorrow, when the monthly unemployment numbers come out, we’ll learn that the underemployment and unemployment rates remain relatively high. Big surprise there. According to the latest Freakonomics podcast on NPR’s Marketplace, there’s a new theory for why the high unemployment rate persists. Apparently, we’re getting hit with the side effects of a trend that began over a…
New Master’s Degree Book From Order of Education
| March 14, 2013 | Posted by Editor under Arts & Humanities, Book Reviews, Education, Graduate School, Writing |
Here at Order of Education we’re proud to bring you the first in our line of published books on the topic of education. This first book is written by the site editor, Joshua A. Boldt, and it is entitled Should I Get a Master’s Degree in English? In this first book publication by Order of…
A Financial Win for the Humanities, For Once
| March 7, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Arts & Humanities, Education, Graduate School, Writing |
Today, I’m bringing you the uplifting academic story of the week sponsored by the humanities. But first, if you’ve spent any time on Order of Education, you know good news about the humanities is rare. Political obsession with STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) have pretty much squeezed the humanities into a tiny corner…
Two Big Problems With Graduate Education in the Humanities
| February 21, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Arts & Humanities, Education, Graduate School, Politics |
“Graduate education in the humanities is in crisis.” Departing MLA President Michael Bérubé and I apparently agree on many things.1 Of course, he’s been in the academy a lot longer than I have, but you don’t have to be an industry veteran to recognize the precarity of graduate education in the humanities. Sure, humanities departments have been saying…
Should I Get an Online Master’s in English?
| November 14, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Graduate School |
Apparently, lots of people are wondering whether or not to pursue a master’s degree in English. Three of my posts, Why Did I Get a Master’s Degree in English?, Five Bad Reasons to Earn a Master’s Degree in English, and Five Good Reasons to Earn a Master’s Degree in English have garnered quite a bit of attention. Several great…
Humanities Graduate School Enrollment Drops Again
| September 29, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Arts & Humanities, Education, Graduate School |
Anybody catch this article yesterday in The New York Times? New Enrollment Drops Again in Graduate Programs. Anyone surprised? Higher education hasn’t exactly been getting good publicity lately. Every time I turn around these days, there’s a new headline warning us about the risk of pursuing a graduate degree, especially a degree obtained in humanities…
Guide to Solving the Student Debt Crisis
| July 6, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Education, Graduate School, Politics, Work |
I’ll tell you how to solve the Student Debt Crisis, but first . . . Imagine you’ve decided to check out a new restaurant that’s just opened downtown. You read the Yelp reviews and they are generally pretty positive, so you’re going to give it a shot. Saturday night rolls around and you head downtown.…
Five Good Reasons to Earn a Master’s Degree in English
| June 15, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Arts & Humanities, Education, Graduate School, Work, Writing |
And now for the counterpart to my last post, Five Bad Reasons to Earn a Master’s Degree in English. It’s not all bad. Some people have perfectly good reasons for pursuing a master’s degree in English. As long as you know why you’re doing it, graduate school can be an incredibly rewarding and lucrative experience. Here…
Five Bad Reasons to Earn a Master’s Degree in English
| June 13, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Graduate School, Work, Writing |
I have a feeling some people are not going to like this post. Think of it as tough love. Let me start by saying it’s not my objective to discourage everyone from going to graduate school or from pursuing a dream of earning a master’s degree in English. Not at all. All I want to…
Why Did I Get a Master’s Degree in English?
| June 4, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Arts & Humanities, Education, Graduate School |
A warning of sorts for anyone considering a master’s degree in English… Why did I get a master’s degree in English anyway? Good question. Wish I had a nice answer to it, but I don’t. When I finished my undergraduate studies at the University of Kentucky in 2003, I told myself I was never going back…
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