On Making and Becoming a Graduate

Authors

  • M. Anwar Sounny-Slitine Environmental Studies Program, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 78626 USA Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 USA
  • Kaitlin A. Tasker Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 USA
  • Kalli F. Doubleday Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 USA
  • Molly H. Polk Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 USA
  • Brandee R. Knight Environmental Studies Program, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 78626 USA
  • Caitlin Schneider Environmental Studies Program, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 78626 USA

Abstract

This article is a response to Doolittle article On making and becoming a professor, where he outlines the evolution of graduate students from an incoming master's student to a defending doctoral candidate.

References

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Doolittle, W.E. 2014. On making and becoming a professor. The Southwestern Geographer 17:12

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Pascarella, E.T. 1980. Student-faculty informal contact and college outcomes. Review of Educational Research 50:545-595.

U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. American Community Survey - Educational Attainment.

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Published

2015-03-20

Issue

Vol. 18 (2015)

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