The Dream Is Gone: Leonard Cassuto’s The Graduate School Mess
When an undergraduate student comes to me for advice about graduate school, I always say the same thing: Don’t do it. I tell them that because I was lucky to find a tenure track position after four years of searching for one. In my field, political theory, the job market was then bad and is today terrible. In The Graduate School Mess: What Caused it and How to Fix It, Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham University and author of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Graduate Adviser” column, focuses on the situation in the humanities, which sounds even worse than in my field.