Daring the Doctorate is the first major work to address the life circumstances of mid-career doctoral students. Based on the experiences of fifteen successful graduates, the author develops perspectives and frameworks to assist those contemplating doctoral study, as well as faculty and staff advisors and even recent graduates who wonder whether only they found the road to graduation so complicated.
Daring the Doctorate is the first major work to address the life circumstances of mid-career doctoral students. Based on the experiences of fifteen successful graduates, the author develops perspectives and frameworks to assist those contemplating doctoral study, as well as faculty and staff advisors and even recent graduates who wonder whether only they found the road to graduation so complicated.
Ada Demb has supervised twenty-one doctoral students to completion and has taught courses about strategy and leadership, academic affairs, internationalization, and technology. She earned her Ed.D. at Harvard University. For more than thirty years, she has focused on the policies, procedures, and structures that affect human behavior in organizations. This is her fourth book.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1-Doctoral Students & Project Participants Part I-Timing Chapter 2-Why the Doctorate Now? Chapter 3-What's so Different about Mid-Career? Part II-The Emotional Reality Chapter 4-Fear, Costs, Guilt, Isolation Chapter 5-Challenges & Exhilaration Part III-The Supporting Cast Chapter 6-Insiders and Outsiders Chapter 7-Advisors and Mentors Chapter -8Images that Illuminate Part IV-The Never-Ending Journey Chapter 9-Transformations Chapter10-Broadening Perspectives Chapter 11-Reflections Appendix-Research Design and Methodology References