Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Leaving the Ivory Tower : The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study - Barbara E. Lovitts

Leaving the Ivory Tower

The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study

By: Barbara E. Lovitts

eText | 15 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eText

$108.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $27.00 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

Graduate schools have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 percent for the past 40 years. They have tried to address the problem by focusing on student characteristics and by assuming that if they could make better, more informed admissions decisions, attrition rates would drop. Yet high attrition rates persist and may in fact be increasing. Leaving the Ivory Tower thus turns the issue around and asks what is wrong with the structure and process of graduate education. Based on hard evidence drawn from a survey of 816 completers and noncompleters and on interviews with noncompleters, high- and low-Ph.D productive faculty and Directors of Graduate study, this book locates the root cause of attrition in the social structure and cultural organization of graduate education.

Industry Reviews
Lovitts lays a strong foundation for institutional reform in graduate education. She offers a compelling argument that graduate student attrition is a systematic, structural, and cultrual problem that can be solved. Leaving the Ivory Tower is a richresource for graduate faculty ready to embark upon the road to program improvement....
on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionEducationHigher & Further EducationOrganisation & Management of EducationStudents & Student OrganisationsSelf-Help, Personal Development & Practical AdviceAdvice on Education

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 4th April 2001

View Product

More in Higher & Further Education

Schools Without Failure - William Glasser M.D.

eBOOK

Schools Without Failure

eBook

$10.99

This product is categorised by