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Direct linkHarper, Steven J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
The Law School Admission Council recently reported that applications were heading toward a 30-year low, reflecting, as a "New York Times" article put it, "increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt, and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upon graduation." Since 2004 the number of law-school…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Admission (School), Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Trends
Patton, Stacey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
It's the night before one of Javier Jimenez's big job interviews at the Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting. The 35-year-old graduate student, who is scheduled to earn his Ph.D. in comparative literature this spring from the University of California at Berkeley, is trying to ward off anxiety and abdominal pains. The mystique of the MLA, the…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Modern Languages, Graduate Students, Employment Interviews
Brainard, Jeffrey; Fain, Paul; Masterson, Kathryn – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Colleges have added managers and support personnel at a steady, vigorous clip over the past 20 years, new research shows, far outpacing the growth in student enrollment and instructors. Support staff--like budget analysts, computer specialists, and loan counselors--nearly doubled from 1987 to 2007. Meanwhile, jobs for instructors increased by only…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, School Personnel, College Administration, Costs
Neelakantan, Shailaja – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
In India's beleaguered higher-education system, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) stand apart. The seven institutions have turned out some of the world's finest engineers and computer scientists, eagerly recruited by top graduate schools in the United States. Many of the institutes' graduates have gone on to become the chief executives of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Development
Smith, Lauren – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
This article reports the finding of a study entitled, "Where the Engineers Are," conducted by a group of researchers at Duke University, which was published in the spring issue of Issues in Science and Technology and is a follow-up to a 2005 study. This new report on the number and quality of graduate engineering degrees conferred in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Engineering, Economic Progress
Gravois, John – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
For decades it has been happening everywhere in academe, but nowhere in particular. The sweeping shift toward non-tenure-track academic labor has been one of the most worried-over trends in American higher education. But it has been charted mostly with broad-brush data, which give little indication of the trend's progress at the institutional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty, Employment Practices
