Profession coaches fill important gaps in Ph.D. coaching

To the editor: In “The Doctoral Dilemma” (Feb. 3, 2025), Inside Larger Ed reporter Johanna Alonso describes profession teaching as a “cottage {industry}” of “gurus” that emerged to fill important gaps in graduate coaching. As a profession coach cited within the article, I used to be dissatisfied to see such an inaccurate and biased portrayal…

A Ph.D. graduate is attacked for her “woke” dissertation

A College of Cambridge tutorial who acquired rape threats after posting a photograph of herself along with her Ph.D. thesis has condemned X’s failure to police abusive social media messages, saying the positioning is “now not an applicable platform for teachers … to share their concepts with each other.” Ally Louks’s publish to say she had handed her…

How your Ph.D. or postdoc prepares you for entrepreneurship (opinion)

Yutthana Gaetgeaw/iStock/Getty Pictures Plus Innovation has change into a scorching matter in financial circles over the previous few years. In March 2022, america’ Nationwide Science Basis created its first new directorate in over 30 years: Know-how, Innovation and Partnerships, or TIP. The passing of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 helped fund the directorate,…