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Changing supervisors without 1) losing your funding and/or 2) having to start over on your dissertation is extremely difficult at many universities.
As a result, academic supervisors wield excessive power over their graduate students.
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Changing supervisors without 1) losing your funding and/or 2) having to start over on your dissertation is extremely difficult at many universities.
As a result, academic supervisors wield excessive power over their graduate students.