Sentences with phrase «inside graduate admissions»
In Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, Posselt shows how the process of offering admission at selective Ph.D. programs is chock - full of assumptions that are seldom made explicit or challenged.
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A revealing new book, Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, education researcher Julie Posselt, investigates the processes at 10 top - ranked departments — including astrophysics, biology, physics, economics, linguistics, political science, and sociology — and examines the values and practices that appear to govern them.
Top graduate programs, which receive many more applications than they can accept, often use «objective» numerical criteria as screening devices to shorten their lists of «serious» candidates, explained education researcher Julie Posselt of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping.
About this Book: Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping Julie R. Posselt Harvard University Press, 2016
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► «[T] he process of offering admission at selective Ph.D. programs is chock - full of assumptions that are seldom made explicit or challenged,» wrote Sian Beilock, vice provost for academic initiatives at the University of Chicago in Illinois, in her review of the book Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie Posselt.