[Air-l] First post

[elw at stderr.org]

> Thanks for the book recommendation - I hadn't come across that one and 
> it look interestingly theoretical (which most books on the PhD aren't). 
> There has been one published here recently called 'Doctorates 
> Downunder', an edited book, most of which is in the 'how to get it done' 
> genre. Useful, but not an a very complex conceptual plane.

Have you seen the materials from the "re-envisioning the Ph.D" project?

http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/

Great work, that.

--elijah