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Informationen zum Autor An associate professor in the Higher Education & Student Affairs Program at The Ohio State University since 1992 (now Emeritus), 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. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1-Doctoral Students & Project ParticipantsPart I-TimingChapter 2-Why the Doctorate Now?Chapter 3-What's so Different about Mid-Career?Part II-The Emotional RealityChapter 4-Fear, Costs, Guilt, IsolationChapter 5-Challenges & ExhilarationPart III-The Supporting CastChapter 6-Insiders and OutsidersChapter 7-Advisors and MentorsChapter -8Images that IlluminatePart IV-The Never-Ending JourneyChapter 9-TransformationsChapter10-Broadening PerspectivesChapter 11-ReflectionsAppendix-Research Design and MethodologyReferences
