The Experience of Being in Graduate School: An Exploration

Author: Anderson, Melissa S.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
ISBN: 787942472
Table of Contents: ch. 1 Reflections on the Graduate Student Experience: An Overview - Melissa Anderson
ch. 2 "Grand Possibilities and Perilous Business": Academic Autobiographers on Graduate Education - Steven Weiland
ch. 3 Survival Skills for Graduate School and Beyond - Beth A. Fischer, Michael J. Zigmond
ch. 4 Developing Self-Authorship in Graduate School - Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
ch. 5 Beginning Graduate School: Explaining First-Year Doctoral Attrition - Chris M. Golde
ch. 6 Students' Perspectives on Their Master's Degree Experiences: Disturbing the Conventional Wisdom - Clifton F. Conrad, Katherine M. Duren, Jennifer Grant Haworth
ch. 7 Preparing College Faculty - Jerry G. Gaff, Anne S. Pruitt-Logan
ch. 8 Best Practices for Enculturation: Collegiality, Mentoring, and Structure - Peg Boyle, Bob Boice
ch. 9 If We Want Things to Stay as They Are, Things Will Have to Change - Jules B. LaPidus

There is much at stake in the graduate enterprise. Here students are prepared to become leaders, professionals, researchers, and scholars who will be responsible for the advancement of our knowledge and well-being. But what of the students themselves? What do they go through in graduate school? What is the graduate experience like? This volume of New Directions for Higher Education addresses the graduate experience from the standpoint of the students themselves. From a variety of perspectives and across many fields of study, these chapters present what students have reported about their experience through interviews, surveys, ongoing discussions, and autobiographies. This is the 101st issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Higher Education. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals section. (From the Publisher)

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