Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: The Admissions scandal and a service for PhDs

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about Versatile Ph.D., a popular career platform owned by the foundation behind the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal:

Julie Posselt, associate professor of education at the University of Southern California — which is among the institutions targeted in the admissions fraud case — wrote an eye-opening 2016 book about the graduate admissions process. (Posselt also has contributed to Inside Higher Ed.) She said this week that she didn’t have enough information to infer what motivated the Key Foundation to purchase Versatile Ph.D.

What is clear is that Versatile Ph.D. gathers “copious personal information about people who may feel anxious about or wronged by the faculty job market, just as a lot of high school students feel anxious about the market for college admissions. I want to know how they were using it or may have intended to use it. How are people and companies exploiting the difficulty of accessing higher education and faculty jobs?”

Read the full article in Inside Higher Ed. Posselt is a national expert on graduate admissions.