According to Inside Higher Ed:
We talk about graduate education as a kind of national treasure,” Debra Stewart, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, told her audience at the Library of Congress on Thursday. “What’s new is that other countries have discovered our secret.”
Those introductory remarks, at a forum on a new report, set the tone for the panels that followed. Members of Congress, university presidents, graduate-school deans and corporate leaders convened to pledge support for an increased investment in graduate education — what the report, “Graduate Education: The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation,” called “necessary to enhance U.S. innovation and national security.
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