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Supporting Humanities Doctoral Student Success: A Collaborative Project between Cornell University Library and Columbia University Libraries
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It is well documented that doctoral students in the humanities take longer to complete their programs and drop out at a higher rate than do students in the sciences and social sciences. In recent years, several large!scale projects have studied the issue, including the Council of Graduate Schools Ph.D. Completion Project (Council of Graduate Schools 2008), the Graduate Education Initiative funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Ehrenberg et al., 2009), and the National Research Council Assessment of Research Doctoral Programs (NRC 2010). These studies are complemented by others: the National Science Foundation tracks the number of degrees awarded in its annual Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) and produces other reports such as Time to Degree of U.S. Research Doctorate Recipients Report (Hoffer and Welch 2006).