Graduate students in transition
Subtitle: assisting students through the first year
By: Kenneth A. Tokuno, editor.
Contributors: Tokuno, Kenneth A. 1947-
Series: First-year experience monograph series -- no. 50
Publisher: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781889271613
Subjects: Graduate students -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Graduate work; Graduate students -- Services for; Graduate students -- Counseling of; Mentoring in education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Overview of graduate student education: issues, theories, and specific populations; title: Transitions in context: an overview of U.S. graduate education / by Kim Rapp and Chris Golde; title: Theories relating to the transition into graduate study / by Kenneth A. Tokuno; title: Transitional needs of masters' students / Joshua Alexander and Michelle Maher; title: Graduate students of color: unique challenges / by Miya Simpson; title: International graduate students: adjusting to study in the United States / by Maureen Snow Andrade; title: Strategies, initiatives, and innovations; title: Orientation programs for graduate students / by Michael Poock; title: Graduate students' transition courses / by Jan Allen; title: A new context for mentoring: graduate learning communities / by Richard Pratt and Kenneth A. Tokuno; title: Graduate student centers: locus for services and community / by Lydia Soleil; title: An expanded perspective on the graduate transition: strategies to support students from application through completion of the first year / by Leslie B. Sims; title: Conclusion and recommendations / by Kenneth A. Tokuno.