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year's ACTR I sat on a panel discussing graduate school professionalization. It
was quite a valuable conversation that looked at, among other things, the
prospect of a Grad student getting a coveted professorship. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></DIV><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">

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an article in The Nation addressed a similar subject. And the outlook is not rosy.
Here is the link to that article: <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education?page=0%2C0"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education?page=0%2C0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></DIV><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">

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always,<o:p></o:p></span></DIV><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">

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