Created by Sofia Rasmussen and posted at PostDocsForum.
This would never happen in Campanastan - we execute all tenured professors over 60. If that doesn't work, we then execute all PhD students over 30 (plenty of those!).
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Here's her text:
As consequence of the “Great Recession,” states across the US have been mired in debt and forced to make dramatic cuts to higher education. As funding for higher education constricts, fewer tenure track academic positions for recent graduates are opening as universities increasingly turn to economically cheaper adjunct and part-time professors to instruct their ballooning classes. Amid this reduction in the demand for PhDs is the fact that the United States is producing a record number of doctorates. The result is a job crisis for PhD candidates that must be addressed.
"There are two types of PhD theses: perfect and submitted". - Unknown
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