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10 Ways to Keep Graduate Students From Quitting

By CARY NELSON and BARBARA E. LOVITTS

For the first time in 14 years, the total number of Ph.D.'s granted by universities in the United States has fallen -- with engineering and physical sciences showing the largest percentage drops. Whether this change presages a teacher shortage of "crisis" proportions, to quote the U.S. Commission on National Security for the...

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