Graduate Study Challenges

Paper Summary:

In this article, the writer explores three primary challenges a potential graduate student will face on entering a study program while working full-time and attending to family obligations. The writer notes that these include balancing one's life, learning how to socialize in a new setting and overcoming emotional barriers to success in the academic environment. The paper presents three strategies most likely to enable student achievement, including socialization, collaboration and adoption of self-development and self-efficient tools for managing one's daily tasks.

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Abstract
Introduction
Three Strategies for Success
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Anderson suggests that many Universities need to work with student's to accommodate their unique needs, as long as students are willing to engage in collaborative relationships with their peers and families. One way to teach graduate students how to balance their education, career and any psychological or emotional blocks they may have to success is by teaching students to adopt self-efficient tools, such as creating daily task lists that limit the amount of time they spend on activities to ensure they fulfill all of their obligations. Universities also have an obligation to effectively screen students to ensure that students are well-informed of how much work they will need to take on as a student, and what resources may be available to them to overcome any foreseeable obstacles they might face in the near future."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anderson, M. S. (1996). Collaboration, the doctoral experience, and the departmental environment. The Review of Higher Education, 19, 305-326.
• Austin, A. (2002). Preparing the next generation of faculty: Graduate school as socialization to the academic career. Journal of Higher Education, 73, 95-122.
• Bandura, A. (1982). Self-efficacy mechanisms in human agency. American Psychologist, 37(2), 122-147.
• Bieber, J.P., & Worley, L.K. (2006). Conceptualizing the academic life: Graduate students perspectives. Journal of Higher Education 77, 1009.
• Brink, W.J. (1999). Selecting graduate students. Journal of Higher Education, 70, 517-23.

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