The years of juggled childcare, jobs and family finances melt away as the graduate beams down from the stage, amazed that their moment has come.
I was only a few months away from graduating from the University of Virginia.
Training modules, which were initially viewed as extracurricular distractions that take away from important graduate work, have now received full "buy-in" from faculty, who recognize the merits of training modules as early intervention tools and encourage enrollment of both UR and non-UR students.
Jean-Claude Brizard, the schools superintendent in Rochester for the past three years, said that while he was surprised by the data, he welcomed the effort to move the conversation away from simply graduating.
Recruiters are expensive, often add little value, and shy away from recent graduates and the unemployed.
However, simply calling for a boost in numbers on engineering courses, with or without teaching in entrepreneurial skills, is unlikely to solve the problem.In recent years there has been a big "leakage" in Britain more than half for all engineering disciplines of new engineering graduates away from the branches of manufacturing we might assume they would progress into.
Graduates study hard to become part of our industries (not to mention the debts they've taken) and businesses have a responsibility to do everything they can to offer jobs, work experience or paid internships to help stem the flow of graduates moving away from the sectors they have worked so hard to be a part of.
I would also shift support of graduate students to training grants and away from graduate research assistantships.
Most university graduates would shy away from the thought of their undergraduate dissertation being shown to anyone other than an examiner, but a US publisher is promising that the late David Foster Wallace's thesis, due for publication later this year, will "restore logic and language to their rightful places".
Another important consequence: Many of the best academic high school graduates were driven away from the majors affected by the reform and into "other majors, high paying ones, [that] were kind of sheltered by being not accessible to the technical students," Bianchi says.
This antiquated system encourages scholars to write and speak only for an audience of peers, keeping graduate students from branching away from the proto-book dissertation model and faculty from exploring popular venues for their work.
