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The #1 Thing That Would Change the PhD Culture

20 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief advocacy video, the speaker criticizes the current PhD culture for providing little to no mentorship support to graduate students, despite their groundbreaking research contributions. The speaker argues that higher education institutions should train faculty to be effective mentors and should evaluate program success based on student completion rates rather than solely on research output. The video concludes with a supportive call to action, inviting viewers who feel unsupported to comment "help" to receive a link to a free dissertation help community.

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Your university accepted you into this program. They said that's a valid person to be here. So where's the support of you moving through it? There is none, and it shouldn't be that way. Our students are doing groundbreaking research and we should give them the support to match. It really is time that higher education took more responsibility and trained faculty to actually mentor, not just research. What would change if we measured success by student completion rates, not just research output? If you are feeling unsupported, you are not alone and the gap is not yours to fix all by Comment "help" and we will send you the link to our free dissertation help community. You've got this!