ACLS Doctoral Futures Town Hall – Small Cohorts and Graduate Curricula

Many doctoral programs are admitting smaller cohorts—what will need to change and what opportunities might these changes create?

Smaller cohorts raise deeper questions about the kind of intellectual community we want to build and how programs must adapt to serve students well. ACLS Doctoral Futures invites graduate students, faculty, and academic professionals into an open conversation about what smaller cohorts mean for the design of doctoral education.

Explore how reduced cohort sizes might shape the way students are recruited and selected, and how they challenge us to rethink program structure across four key areas: disciplinarity, curricula, mentorship, and advising. Your experiences and insights are what will drive this conversation. Come ready to share what you’re seeing, asking, and imagining for the future of doctoral education.