Hi everybody.
I wanted to get folks opinion on this, is anyone familiar with the spanish dpt at yale and the current controversies surrounding it?
I found this online and was quite disheartened: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/02/05/spanish-dept-grad-apps-plummet/
Seems like the program has been undergoing serious challenges lately. Apparently, none of the five people accepted last year chose to go. Also, only 19 people applied this year which is significantly low according to their standards. I recently received an acceptance but coming across this brought up mixed feelings:
“Unfortunately the pool of graduate program applicants is very, very small, and the candidates are not very promising,” Spanish professor Anibal González-Pérez GRD ’82 said. “The recruitment of new professors at assistant and senior level will be important to give our department a new perspective. It is true that the department can become very isolated and backwards-looking if it does not refresh its faculty.”
How do they expect people to want to attend the school when they are expressing doubts about the candidates?
Thoughts?
