Graduate Grind

Examining common assumptions and routines through the lens of critical theory the authors question several aspects of graduate education including the conception of graduate students as institutional capital; institutionalized prejudice based on age gender sexual orientation race and class; and competing power and value systems. The authors allow students to tell their own stories thus humanizing the results of abuses generated by a flawed system. Finding a current exploitation of students unconscionable Hinchey and Kimmel call for a new vision of graduate education one in which students are valued and treated as unique and vibrant individuals