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Graduate education: the Ph.D. glut

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[Two years ago the author was elected by the Washington State University faculty to a three-year term as a faculty representative to a Graduate Studies Committee charged “to examine and evaluate proposed changes in the policy of the Graduate School.” After his experiences and considerable study, the author says he feels compelled to express his observations and opinions to his fellow members of the Association for Computing Machinery.]

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