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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even our DD who is doing a post grad work year at HYP school in chemistry says the PHD students have warned her off getting one. She doesn’t plan to go into academia if she gets one.

How will the US stay competitive with this type of system? HYP fully funds these types of PhDs![/quote]

+1. It is not just humanities PHDs who have trouble finding jobs in academia. Academia is basically run by the elderly now. Both of my parents are PhDs and professors at a university. They are 78 and 76 and have no plans to retire yet. Most of their colleagues are boomers or older. I"m a gen-xer with a PhD and am a SME at a think tank. I've never been interested in being a professor (I've done adjunct work like lots of folks in DC to pad my resume), but it is brutal out there. I think they should have mandatory retirement ages for professors (not just tenured ones, but any full-time faculty). [/quote]

PP, what are your thoughts here about your parents still teaching while your immediate peers and even younger ones languish because of no openings? I think the LAC where I attended appealed to professors in the upper end of Baby Boom age range to retire by at least 70, if not earlier, in order to create openings for younger staff. A couple of my classmates who were profs and are not yet 65 retired when they hit 30 years in order to do this. [/quote]f

In my post I said there should be mandatory retirement ages. I have been bugging my parents to retire since they turned 70. My mom has had two colleagues who the department had to appeal to family members because these folks were still working with early dementia. Their research (and teaching) is their life. It is great that they still love it, but, I think it is time for them to move on.[/quote]

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