There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

you will have to produce written proposals for you research. In some programs at Northwestern, you will need to write a formal dissertation proposal. And when you become an independent researcher, you ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Roger Conover, the press’s executive editor, tells me that the handbook has been staple reading for ...