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The Black Student’s Pathway to Graduate Study and Beyond

The Making of a Scholar

Edited by:
Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer, Grambling State University

Published 2023

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.

ENDORSEMENTS:
"This book will be helpful not only for students seeking a meaningful experience in graduate and professional school, but perhaps more importantly, institutions that desire to create productive pathways for Black students to the advanced-degree workplace. The chapters unpack important lived experiences that should be carefully considered." — Jerlando F. L. Jackson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"The Black Student’s Pathway to Graduate Study and Beyond: The Making of a Scholar makes key contributions to the extant literature. By underscoring Black graduate students’ engagements with Academe, the scholars provide nuanced perspective through an array of contextual lenses (e. g. admissions; race and gender; socialization; transition) that are endemic to higher education in general, and the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) setting in particular. Critical Race Theory is the theoretical framework that provides scaffolding upon which the volume’s scholars theorize best practices, strategies, and solutions that are authentic representations of their experiences. The pathway is an appropriate metaphor for this book—the scholars have provided illumination; it is incumbent upon us to initiate the journey." — Fred A. Bonner II, Prairie View A&M University

CONTENTS
Foreword, Dana A. Williams. Acknowledgments. Introduction, Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer. PART I: EMBARKING ON THE GRADUATE ADMISSIONS PROCESS. Graduate Admissions and Affirmative Action: The Effect of Critical Race Theory, Elizabeth K. Davenport, Patrice W. Glenn Jones, and Lawrence Davenport. Strategies for Admission to the Best Graduate Schools, William A. Person. 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. 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 GENDER DISPARITIES IN GRADUATE EDUCATION. 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. Inventing Failure: Being Black and Male in Liberal Arts Graduate Programs Such as Philosophy, Tommy J. Curry. PART III: PERSEVERING TO THE GRADUATE DEGREE. Surviving the Major Examination Gamut: Qualifying and Comprehensive, Ademola A. Akinrinola and Seun B. Adebayo. Preventing Plagiarism in Scholarly Graduate Research, Liangyue Lu. Employing Scholarly Writing Skills Using Style Manuals for Writing Dissertation Proposals and Dissertations, Charlene T. Evans. Using Discipline to Develop and Maintain Good Study Habits and Techniques, Daphne E. Williams and Mxolisi S. B. Siwatu. Toward a Paradigm Shift: Adjusting to Technology in Graduate Education, Carlous Caple. 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. 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. Psychosocial Adjustment to the Graduate School Environment, Hakim M. Rashid. Developing a Global Identity Among Black American, Black African, Black Caribbean, and Other Black Students, Steve A. Buddington. Maintaining Black Pride, Self-Esteem, and Self-Confidence in Graduate Education and Beyond, Shanette M. Harris. Race, Color, and Racialization in Graduate Education, Roshunda L. Belton-Cardoza and Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer. PATHWAY V: PREPARING FOR SUCCESS BEYOND GRADUATE EDUCATION. Black Scholarship and How to Increase Publication Opportunities Early for Black Doctoral Students, Rhonda Erica Baylor. The Career Hunt: Putting it All Together and Marketing Yourself in Your Career Field, Cassandra D. Chaney. About the Authors.

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