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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Graduate & Professional School Opportunities for Minority Students
Author: Higher Education Opportunities for Minorities and Women, Annotated Selections
Author: The Black Student's Guide to Graduate and Professional School Success
Author: Vernon L. FarmerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313058067
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This guide is designed to help black students prepare for standardized tests, negotiate admissions, find a faculty mentor, choose a field of study, select the best curriculum, adjust to the campus, master technology, engage in research and publishing, secure graduate assistantships, develop a global identity, maintain black pride and self esteem, and interact with other cultural groups. What are the models of success for black students in graduate and professional school careers? What should be expected and prepared for? What struggles lie ahead, and how have others overcome the obstacles? This guide is designed to help black students prepare for standardized tests, negotiate admissions, find a faculty mentor, choose a field of study, select the best curriculum, adjust to the campus, master technology, engage in research and publishing, secure graduate assistantships, develop a global identity, maintain black pride and self esteem, and interact with other cultural groups. In the first section of this guide, 21 scholars offer sound, nuts-and-bolts advice on preparing for-and excelling in-graduate and professional school. In the second section, 40 scholars from varied professions share the personal experiences that led to their successes. In the third section, current students recount their problems, solutions, and overall achievements. Their essays embody the advice and information provided in previous chapters, humanizing and reinforcing the themes of the entire book. Their success may begin in theory, but their stories and accomplishments are real. The primary audience for this guide consists of black undergraduates, black graduate students both prospective and current, deans of graduate and professional schools, graduate admissions counselors and recruiters, faculty advisors, and collegiate coaches in both predominantly black and white higher education institutions. The secondary audience includes high school students, parents, teachers, coaches, guidance counselors, and civic, community, and religious organizations.
Selected List of Postsecondary Education Opportunities for Minorities and Women
Author: The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School
Author: Alicia IsaacPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book 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.
Selected List of Postsecondary Education Opportunities for Minorities and Women
Author: Linda Byrd-JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Selected List of Postsecondary Education Opportunities for Minorities and Women
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
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Category : African American college students
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
Author: Joan BolkerPublisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1429968885
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.
Scholarships for African-American Students
Author: Peterson's Guides StaffPublisher: Petersons
ISBN: 9780768913569
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Provides information on thousands of scholarships that are geared specifically for African American college students.
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