Full Description
The Black Student's Pathway to Graduate Study and Beyond: The Making of a Scholar is an informative and ambitious book designed to help Black prospective and current graduate students pursue graduate degrees successfully. The book covers broad topics ranging from admissions policies, standardized tests, networking, mentorship, financial options, qualifying and comprehensive exams, proposal and dissertation writing, publishing, gender and race, socialization, and campus culture.
This volume is organized into five graduate pathways: Pathway I: Embarking on the Graduate Admissions Process; Pathway II: Confronting Race and Gender Disparities in Graduate Education; Pathway III: Persevering to the Graduate Degree; Pathway IV: Adjusting to the Socialization of Graduate Education; and Pathway V: Preparing for Success Beyond Graduate Education. The book calls Black students' attention to some of the barriers they may encounter along the pathway to a graduate degree. The pathway to success can be linear or nonlinear since students travel different journeys and are at different vectors on the continuum.
The primary audience for this book consists of Black prospective and current graduate students, graduate deans, admissions counselors, recruiters, and faculty advisors in both black and white higher education institutions. The secondary audience includes high school students, guidance counselors, and social and religious organizations. Furthermore, this book can serve as a handy resource for undergraduates who are interested in pursuing a graduate degree.
Contents
Foreword; Dana A. Williams.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction; Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer.
Part I: Embarking On The Graduate Admissions Process.
Chapter 1. Graduate Admissions and Affirmative Action: The Effect of Critical Race Theory; Elizabeth K. Davenport, Patrice W. Glenn Jones, and Lawrence Davenport.
Chapter 2. Strategies for Admission to the Best Graduate Schools; William A. Person.
Chapter 3. When the Smoke Clears: What You Need to Know About Standardized Testing After COVID-19; Elizabeth K. Davenport, Patrice W. Glenn Jones, and Lawrence Davenport.
Chapter 4. Minority Scholarships, Loans, and Grants to Support Graduate Education; Lemuel Berry, Jr. Diversity, Equity, and Innovation: Imperatives for Today's Graduate Programs, Ernesta P. Williams.
Part II: Confronting Race and Ger Disparities in Graduate Education.
Chapter 5. Research as a Site of Resistance: A Phenomenological Study of Black Women in U.S. Doctoral Education; Tonisha B. Lane, Ebony N. Perez, Shawna M. Patterson- Stephens, and Louise Michelle Vital.
Chapter 6. Inventing Failure: Being Black and Male in Liberal Arts Graduate Programs Such as Philosophy; Tommy J. Curry.
Part III: Persevering To The Graduate Degree.
Chapter 7. Surviving the Major Examination Gamut: Qualifying and Comprehensive; Ademola A. Akinrinola and Seun B. Adebayo.
Chapter 8. Preventing Plagiarism in Scholarly Graduate Research; Liangyue Lu.
Chapter 9. Employing Scholarly Writing Skills Using Style Manuals for Writing Dissertation Proposals and Dissertations; Charlene T. Evans.
Chapter 10. Using Discipline to Develop and Maintain Good Study Habits and Techniques; Daphne E. Williams and Mxolisi S. B. Siwatu.
Chapter 11. Toward a Paradigm Shift: Adjusting to Technology in Graduate Education; Carlous Caple.
Chapter 12. Navigating the Doctoral Process: Using Critical Race Theory to Examine the Value of Developing a Mentor Relationship; Akilah R. Carter-Francique, Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer, and Tamara N. Moten.
Chapter 13. Networking Through Your Academic Journey: Bolstering Successful Passage Into STEM-Related Careers; Cheryl D. Seals, Felicia Doswell, Cheryl A. Swanier, LaVarius Harris, Divine Maloney, and John J. Porter, III.
Part IV: Adjusting To The Socialization Of Graduate Education.
Chapter 14. Psychosocial Adjustment to the Graduate School Environment; Hakim M. Rashid.
Chapter 15. Developing a Global Identity Among Black American, Black African, Black Caribbean, and Other Black Students; Steve A. Buddington.
Chapter 16. Maintaining Black Pride, Self-Esteem, and Self-Confidence in Graduate Education and Beyond; Shanette M. Harris.
Chapter 17. Race, Color, and Racialization in Graduate Education; Roshunda L. Belton-Cardoza and Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer.
Part V: Preparing For Success Beyond Graduate Education.
Chapter 18. Black Scholarship and How to Increase Publication Opportunities Early for Black Doctoral Students; Rhonda Erica Baylor.
Chapter 19. The Career Hunt: Putting it All Together and Marketing Yourself in Your Career Field; Cassandra D. Chaney.
About the Authors.
