{"id":4222,"date":"2009-03-15T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2009-03-15T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T15:24:17","slug":"grad-school-journalism-time-to-question-assumptions-says-thedigitalistscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/15\/grad-school-journalism-time-to-question-assumptions-says-thedigitalistscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Grad school? Journalism? Time to question assumptions says TheDigitalists.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My brother Greg, an online marketing\/media expert, has another thoughtful post<\/a> on TheDigitalists.com<\/strong><\/a>, this one offering some perspectives on graduate school and journalism, two topics of interest to many a JET alum.\u00a0 (Note as well the hint of sibling rivalry.)
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Grad Schools and the Shifting Job\u00a0Landscape<\/a><\/h2>\n

Lots of people go to grad school for the wrong reasons. My brother, who has a JD but no longer practices, has made it his mission in life to dissuade as many aspiring law-school applicants as he can. And rightly so.\u00a0 Far too many liberal-arts grads assume law school is the only answer to the question, “What do you do with a BA in English<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, New York<\/em> magazine is reporting on journalism schools, specifically Columbia, experiencing yet another “existential crisis<\/a>.” (For those keeping score, this is the 54,978th such crisis in the last 30 years.) And, of course, business schools are grappling with the fact that the main industry to which they have funneled most of their graduates has suddenly imploded.<\/p>\n

I think the fundamental problem these programs are facing is that, as professional schools, they were set up to train graduates in a profession. Lawyer. Journalist. Banker. Marketer. The problem is, the definitions of those jobs are not only changing, they’re blurring together.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE POST<\/a><\/h3>\n

Update<\/span>:\u00a0 As if on cue, there’s an article in Sunday’s <\/em>NY Times<\/strong> titled “Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?<\/strong><\/a>“<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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