Placeholder for discussion: Metaprofessional Milk and Cookies, 4/29

Our final Using Theory event of the semester, Metaprofessional Milk and Cookies, will take place on April 29 at 4 p.m.--note the special time. It will involve neither saltines nor ginger ale, at least in the literal sense, but it will involve milk and cookies, perhaps only in the literal sense.

We will be reflecting on graduate-student professionalization through a discussion of two texts on the subject, John Guillory's "Preprofessionalism: What Graduate Students Want," ADE Bulletin 113 (Spring 1996). and Walter Broughton and William Conlogue's "What Search Committees Want", Profession 2001.

Jeff Glover G6 will be helping to lead the discussion. Many thanks to Professor Janice Carlisle, Craig Fehrman, Jeff Glover, and Gabriele Hayden for helping to prepare this event. AG and CG may add additional discussion questions here on the blog, but in the meantime this placeholder entry can serve as a place for discussion. Please feel free to use the comment function to post questions and thoughts. Follow the link below for some additional notes by AG.


Broughton and Conlogue use the Carnegie classification of higher education. More information on the classifications can be found at the Carnegie Foundation's website, on this page. The Carnegie foundation no longer uses the system referred to by Broughton and Conlogue (Research I, Research II...); the Wikipedia entry on the classifications explains the changes.

John Guillory has written at more length on the subject of graduate-student professionalization, in "The System of Graduate Education" [JSTOR], PMLA 115, no. 5 (October 2000): 1154-63.