PhDon't! Are we Overproducing PhDs?
Description
President Barack Obama calls for a recommitment to educate scientists and engineers, but there is a surplus of highly qualified PhDs who will never get the jobs they spent over a decade training to do. Dan Rather speaks to PhDs who cannot find full time professor positions, PhDs who decided to make a career change, and the president of Princeton University who describes why we are overproducing PhDs in this episode of Dan Rather Reports.
Runtime
46 min 17 sec
Series
Subjects
- Education, Higher (39)
- Universities and colleges (46)
- Underemployment (2)
- Doctor of philosophy degree (1)
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