<div dir="ltr">This is a problem not only for PhD's. Job losses and falling income affect everybody who has to work for a living. It started with the financial crisis, and is being made worse by austerity policies. It will keep on getting worse until those policies are changed.</div>
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<div>I am posting this because linguistics is one of the disciplines I think needs to consider this seriously. There are too many academics in the liberal arts with no chance of full-time, secure employment in the area in which they have done their PhD.</div>

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<div>I am not knocking the discipline. I just see too many folks in the areas where I have lived looking for part-time employment because they cannot get full-time work.</div>
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<div><span style="line-height:14px;text-align:left;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:11px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">A lot of what drives prestige attribution in academics
 are rejection rates. Publishing in a journal with a 95% rejection rate is usually more prestigious than publishing in a journal with a 50% rejection rate. Getting into a college or program with a high rejection rate is usually more prestigious than getting
 into one</span><span style="line-height:14px;text-align:left;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:11px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;display:inline"> with
 a lower rejection rate. <br>
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So it is only natural that academics, enculturated into this system, might believe that their department is better the more applicants it gets for a position. Up to a point perhaps. But if you are, as we had at places I have been in English departments, Linguistics
 Departments, Philosophy Departments and so on getting, say, hundreds of applications per position, it isn't prestige that is involved. It is an ailing discipline that needs to declare a moratorium on PhDs. Remember, potential graduate students  trust us. They
 will enter our programs if they seem interesting, even if there is about zero chance for them to get a good job. They do this because they believe that you wouldn't have accepted them knowing they had little chance of employment. <br>

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<div><span style="line-height:14px;text-align:left;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:11px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;display:inline">We need to
 think about this and talk about it more as a discipline.  One might make the case that PhD students should not be admitted to programs who have less than 95% employment rate in the subject of the PhD. Perhaps a few points lower. At least perhaps we could consider
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