Preparing Graduate Students for a Variety of Futures

Bearing in mind the factors that have led to the long term decline of the academic job market — let alone new challenges now facing parts of U.S. higher education — today’s graduate programs today have little choice but to consider how to pivot and equip their students to succeed by finding novel places where their advanced research skills have relevance and applicability.

In this webinAAR, Emily Crews, Director of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago, and Courtney Wiersema, Director of the University of Chicago’s ChicagoGRAD program, discuss what departments should be doing to better prepare their grad students for a variety of futures.

This webinAAR is part of a series of Academic Relations Committee (ARC) remote sessions that are offered each month; all these meetings tackle topics of direct relevance to the success of a department and each session is recorded and posted on the committee’s page at the AAR site.