Anna L. Green, LeKita V. Scott, Brenda Jarmon's Journey to the Ph.D.: How to Navigate the Process as African PDF

By Anna L. Green, LeKita V. Scott, Brenda Jarmon

ISBN-10: 1579220789

ISBN-13: 9781579220785

ISBN-10: 1579220797

ISBN-13: 9781579220792

As a brand new new release of African american citizens completes collage, progressively more scholars are intending to the Ph.D. as a stepping stone to a profession within the academy and to totally perform shaping our society. so much African americans are wakeful that they're the 1st of their households to embark in this trip. they're acutely aware they are going to meet limitations and prejudice, are inclined to face isolation and frustration, and locate few assets of help alongside the best way. This booklet, by way of twenty-four Black students who "have been there," bargains a consultant to aspiring doctoral scholars to the formal method and to the non-public, emotional and highbrow demanding situations they're prone to face. The authors come from a variety of disciplines - from computing, schooling and literature to technology and sociology. even if their studies and backgrounds are as diverse as they're as members, their richly diversified chapters cohere right into a rounded advisor to the problems in case you keep on with of their footsteps. From wondering the reader approximately his or her purposes for pursuing a doctorate, delivering recommendation on monetary matters, the alternative of collage and doctoral application, and relocation, during the procedure and timetable of software, interviews, reputation and rejection, the authors cross directly to describe their very own trips and the teachings they've got discovered. those women and men write candidly approximately their studies, the thoughts they used to take care of their motivation, make the transition from HBCUs to PWIs, stability relations and paintings, make the precise offerings and preserve excited by priorities. They talk about easy methods to paintings successfully with advisors and mentors, make all-important connections with academics and construct expert and private aid networks. They recount how they handled tokenism, tested credibility, dealt with racism, maintained their values and tradition, and persuaded supervisors to legitimize their examine pursuits in African American concerns. this is often either an inspirational and sensible ebook for each African American contemplating pursuit of a doctoral measure.

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Anyone can make straight ‘A’s at an HBCU,” they said, and I started to believe them. Despite this, I applied to a Predominately White University anyway. To my surprise, I was accepted. Clark & Garza (1994) identified several misconceptions that students of color have about graduate school studies. For example, according to Clark & Garza (1994), students of color believe GRE scores determine graduate school admittance. I too believed that I would not be admitted to graduate school because of my Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores.

John, 2000, p. 38). D. has been my long-term goal since I was in the eighth grade. However, throughout my schooling, I lacked the academic confidence I needed to believe that my dream would become reality. 0 GPA upon graduating with my master’s, I questioned whether I had what it took to do well at a so-called elite university. Some Black people and the larger part of society said I had gone to an inferior college. “Anyone can make straight ‘A’s at an HBCU,” they said, and I started to believe them.

I too believed that I would not be admitted to graduate school because of my Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. Then I thought, if I am accepted, I will not do well. Besides, my GRE scores said I would fail. Nevertheless, my “D R E A M S HANGING IN THE AIR LIKE SMOKE” 37 personal experiences confirmed that the GRE does not “assess every discipline-related skill necessary for academic work or all subjective factors important to academic and career success, such as motivation, creativity, and interpersonal skills” (ETS, 1991, qtd.

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