Bücher der Reihe Surviving Graduate School

This volume explores a range of issues surrounding the process of finding employment in academic settings. It includes surveying the market, preparation of credentials, marketing onself, hunting for a job, negotiating an offer, and issues arising in dual-career partnerships.

This practical volume addresses the concerns of the working professional seeking a graduate degree while trying to maintain career and family responsibilities. The helpful information, advice and short cuts the author provides are gleaned from nearly twenty years of service in the divisions of continuing education of three major state universities in the United States.

What does it take to get into and through graduate school? What special challenges, opportunities and issues face an African-American graduate student? This book offers practical advice to help African-American students get the most of their graduate school experience.

This is a comprehensive guidebook for earning a graduate degree in the United States without ever setting foot on a campus. Help and advice is given for every stage of the distance learning process.