The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 15, 2009 by Audrey Williams June
http://chronicle.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/daily/2009/01/9652n.htm
“In this profession, everything is very front-ended, and that’s a pressure-cooker situation,” says Mary Ann Mason, referring to the dizzying schedules of Ph.D. students and pretenure faculty members…. “This generation of graduate students is completely different. They no longer see how that will work for them,” she says.