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Index Page numbers for entries occurring in figures are suffixed by an f; those for entries in notes, by an n; and those for entries in tables, by a t. ABDs. See “all but dissertation” academic employment: aspirations of doctoral students, 186, 263; by field, 189–90, 324t; by institution type, 201; of leavers, 183–84; non-tenure-track positions, 18, 189, 190–91, 190t, 266, 324t; predicted shortage of humanities doctorates, 4; quality of institutions, 199–200; six months after completion, 18, 187–89, 188t, 193–94, 324t, 325t; tenured positions , 197t, 202, 203t; three years after completion, 188t, 189, 190–91, 190t, 324t, 325t. See also faculty members; job market; publications, early-career; tenure-track positions advancement to candidacy: attrition before and after, 173, 176; data on, 232, 242, 247; time-to-advancement to candidacy, 47–48, 48t, 53, 54t, 59–63, 60t. See also coursework period; stage advising: attrition and, 12, 153, 256; changes in, 62, 81, 83–84, 241, 256; completion rates and, 151, 155; dissertation, 55, 62, 74, 75; impact of improving, 151, 153, 155, 256; importance of, 19, 62; issues with, 6, 12; publication rates and, 212, 213–14, 218–19, 328–29t; quality of, 146, 256; student perceptions of, 241 “advising” index, 144t, 146, 151 African-American students: in departments prior to GEI, 44; financial support, 125. See also race and ethnicity ages: at first tenure-track appointment, 192, 192t; publication rates and, 212; at time of completion, 191, 192t Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 15 “all but dissertation” (ABDs), 18, 170 Allison, Paul, 261n American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 3n American Economic Association, 200n American Historical Association, Committee on Graduate Education, 12, 154n, 200n, 251n Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. See Mellon Foundation anthropology departments: field work, 49, 86; impact of GEI in, 108, 312t, 314f. See also fields art history departments: attrition rates in, 173, 173f; expectations, 49; financial support in, 125; impact of GEI in, 108, 312t, 314f; student-year cost in, 50–51, 50t. See also fields assistantships: benefits of, 260; collecting data on, 245; impact of GEI, 131t, 132–33; proportion of students, 127; stipends for, 121–23, 122f; by year in program, 120–21, 121f, 122f, 260. See also research assistantships; teaching assistantships Astin, Helen S., 200n Atlantic Philanthropies, 14 Attiyeh, Gregory, 208, 209n Attiyeh, Richard, 208, 209n attrition: ambiguity of, 35, 234, 265; cumulative probabilities of, 149, 150t; cumulative probabilities predicted, 98–99, 100, 101f, 108, 134, 136–37t; distribution of, 98, 99f; faculty attitudes toward, 86, 227, 251; program characteristics and, 149, 150t, 153, 256; selective, 227; timing of, 17, 18, 96, 98, 225, 247, 251, 253, 267. See also early attrition; leavers; time-to-attrition attrition causes: before and after advancement to candidacy, 175–76, 176f; career goal changes, 175–76, 265; by gender, 176, 177f; other than financial support, 135, 254–55; research on, 12–14; student reports of, 175–76, 176f; transfers to other PhD programs, 18, 234n 338 I N D E X attrition rates: accuracy of estimates, 264–65; citizenship of students and, 104t, 105n; costs to universities of high, 7, 169, 170, 265; departmental expectations for dissertations and, 149, 151–53, 256; entering cohort sizes and, 103; factors affecting, 27–28; by field, 172–73, 173f; financial support effects, 5, 17, 133–35, 136–37t, 149, 253, 254–55; future research on reducing, 154–55; as GEI effectiveness measure, 3; by gender, 104t, 105n, 156–57, 160–61, 161f, 162t; GRE scores and, 103–4, 104t; in humanities fields, 5, 172, 264; impact of GEI on, 16, 55, 96, 100, 101, 101f, 110f, 151–53, 225, 251, 313t; institutional factors and, 15; by marital status, 157, 160–61, 161f, 162t, 261; measuring changes in, 27–28; overall, 169; with prior master’s degree, 104–5, 104t; by race and ethnicity, 104t, 105n; reasons for enrollment and, 173–75, 174f; by stage, 109, 110f, 313t. See also cumulative attrition rates AWMF. See Mellon Foundation Bachetti, Ray, 9n Bender, Thomas, 12n, 251n Berelson, Bernard, 2n, 4 Bieber, Jeffery P., 211n Blackburn, Robert T., 211n Borkowski, Nancy A., 232n Bowen, William G., 4–7, 32, 33, 36n, 37n, 156n, 169n, 229, 302n Breneman, David W., 6n, 32n, 36n, 228n Broh, C. Anthony, 300 Brown, David G., 211n Bruer, John T., 211n Buchmueller, Thomas C., 211n Budig, Michelle J., 261n business degrees. See professional degrees candidacy: attrition after, 96, 172–73, 173f, 175, 176f; clarified deadlines, 62, 74; impact of summer support on timing...