Why Graduate Students Reject the Fast Track

by E Wayne Ross on January 15, 2009

Academe: Why Graduate Students Reject the Fast Track

A study of thousands of doctoral students shows that they want balanced lives.

I could not have come in to graduate school more motivated to be a research-oriented professor. Now I feel that can only be a career possibility if I am willing to sacrifice having children.
—Female Respondent, University of California Doctoral Student Career and Life Survey