…and Those in the Humanities.

The article focuses on the results of two studies related to doctoral programs in the humanities, which were presented at this month's annual meeting of the American Economic Association, in Boston, Massachusetts. The studies concluded that these programs can raise their students' completion rates by admitting fewer students, setting clear expectations for how they spend their summers and discouraging them from polishing or publishing their dissertations before receiving their degrees. Known as the Graduate Education Initiative, the project has now been evaluated by scholars at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.