Search Results - "Graduate school"

Challenges to graduate schools / by Heiss, Ann M.

Is graduate school really for you? the whos, whats, hows, and whys of pursuing a master's or Ph.D. / by Seligman, Amanda I.

Table of Contents: “…So you want to go to graduate school -- Financing your education -- Graduate expectations -- Coursework is hard work -- Dissertations and theses -- The academic culture -- Having a life in graduate school -- Degrees, jobs, and academic careers.…”
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What they didn't teach you in graduate school 299 helpful hints for success in your academic career / by Gray, Paul, 1930-2012

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The doctoral experience success and failure in graduate school / by Delamont, Sara, 1947-

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Do babies matter? gender and family in the ivory tower / by Mason, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The graduate school years : new demographics, old thinking -- Getting into the game -- Capturing the golden ring of tenure -- Alone in the ivory tower -- Life beyond tenure -- Towards a better model.…”
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Dean's list : eleven habits of highly successful college students / by Bader, John B.

Table of Contents: “…Facing freshman year -- Habit #1 : Focus on learning, not on grades -- Habit #2 : Build an adult relationship with your parents -- Habit #3 : Work the system by understanding the system -- Habit #4 : Approach the curriculum like a great feast -- Habit #5 : Understand that majors and careers are not the same thing -- Habit #6 : Don't just work hard, work smart -- Habit #7 : Build integrity to get into professional or graduate school -- Habit #8 : Learn from diversity at home and abroad -- Habit #9 : When you are failing, understand why -- Habit #10 : Cope with failure by rebuilding and forgiving -- Habit #11 : Plan boldly for life after college.…”
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Mama, PhD women write about motherhood and academic life /

Table of Contents: “…a life I never planned / Rosemarie Emanuele -- Coming to terms at full term / Natalie Kertes Weaver -- One mamá's dispensable myths and indispensable machines / Angelica Duran -- That mommy thing / Alissa McElreath -- Failure to progress : what having a baby taught me about Aristotle, advanced degrees, developmental delays, and other natural disasters / Irena Auerbuch Smith -- Infinite calculations / Della Fenster -- I stand here teaching : Tillie Olsen and maternity in the classroom / Julia Lisella -- The facts, the stories / Leah Bradshaw -- I am not a head on a stick : on being a teacher and a doctor and a mommy / Elisabeth Rose Gruner -- Lip service / Jennifer Cognard-Black -- Body double / Leslie Leyland Fields -- The long and winding road / Jean Kazez -- The bags I carried / Caroline Grant -- Of the boys / Martha Ellis Crone -- Free to be-- mom and me : finding my complicated truth as an academic daughter / Megan Pincus Kajitani -- Nontraditional academics : at home with children and a PhD / Susan Bassow, Dana Campbell, Liz Stockwell -- A great place to have a baby / Rebecca Steinitz -- Recovering academic / Jennifer Margulis -- The orange kangaroo / Nicole Cooley and Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Ideal mama, ideal worker : negotiating guilt and shame in academe / Jean-Anne Sutherland -- In theory/in practice : on choosing children and the academy / Lisa Harper -- Motherhood is easy; graduate school is hard / Tedra Osell -- Momifesto : affirmations for the academic mother / Cynthia Kuhn ... …”
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