The African American student's guide to surviving graduate school
By: Alicia Isaac.
Series: Graduate survival skills
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: African Americans -- Education (Graduate); African American graduate students
Description: What does it take to get into and through graduate school? What special challenges, opportunities, and issues face an African American graduate student? The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School offers a practical roadmap to help African American students get the most out of their graduate school experience. The book covers a number of issues, including: creating a program of study, financial aid, and the dissertation process. Author Alicia Isaac thoroughly covers the entire graduate process, offering case studies, anecdotes, words of wisdom from prominent African Americans, checklists, and self-assessment scales to provide a useful guide for students involved in or considering graduate study.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133) and index.
Table of contents: title: Graduate school is ...; title: Making the right choice about where to go to graduate school and getting in with money; title: Developing a master plan; title: Staying in the game; title: Know when to leave the party; title: A handbook for mastering the moves; title: Selecting and managing your major professor and advisory committee; title: Getting through the thesis and dissertation; title: Surviving the defense; title: Looking back and moving forward; title: When racism rears its ugly head.