University Press of America
Pages: 86
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Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7618-4437-2 • Paperback • December 2008 • $40.99 • (£35.00)
Elena Klaw, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center for Community Learning & Leadership at San José State University in San José, California. She holds a PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology and served as an Affiliate Scholar with Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Dr. Klaw has published in the areas of mentoring, mutual-help, and violence against women. She speaks widely as an activist, researcher and lecturer dedicated to social equity.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Becoming a PhD
Chapter 2 Before You Begin: Choosing an Advisor, Finding a Mentor
Chapter 3 Mentoring and Metamorphosis: Becoming a PhD
Chapter 4 Mentoring and Mothering in Academe: Remaining True to Your Life Goals
Chapter 5 Mentoring and Mastery: Getting to Tenure
Chapter 6 Mentoring and Moving On: Leaving the Ivory Tower
This book is an important contribution to the field of graduate mentoring that every faculty and graduate student should read. Through a careful analysis of a rich and diverse collection of personal narratives by graduate students and junior faculty members, Dr. Klaw provides with great insight, empathy, and clarity a road map to guide one through the perilous terrain of academia and how to address the many pitfalls along the way.
— James S. Lai, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies, Santa Clara University
Advice is best given by those who have walked the walk. In her wonderful, succinct guide to graduate work, writing the dissertation, and pursuing entry to academia, Dr. Elena Klaw takes it a step further. Mentoring and Making It provides guidance on this sometimes difficult, always stressful, process that is both warm and friendly as well as backed up by a thorough literature review and her own research into what was helpful (or not so helpful) for others who managed to succeed. I am excited to have this well-researched guide book to help demystify the challenge of academia for my students who are going on for graduate studies!
— Patricia Morey, MSW, Director, Office of Women's Programs, Assistant Dean of Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
As someone who trains undergraduate and master's level graduate students planning to pursue doctorate education, I have long been waiting for a book like this. Professor Klaw's book Mentoring and Making it in Academe addresses what I consider to be the most fundamental element to the successful completion of doctorate training but is very elusive to many students entering graduate programs. Her book has the potential to make a powerful impact on these students' endeavor to obtain a PhD. This book will definitely be a required reading for all of my undergraduate and graduate students.
— Chi-Ah Chun, PhD, Associate Professor and Program Director of NIMH Career Opportunities in Research Program, California State University, Long Bea
Elena Klaw has produced a book young academics have needed for a long time. It speaks persuasively to the need for better mentoring as a core element of academic duty, providing useful guidance, not only from the author's own deep experience but also through statements from a host of real-world interviewees. It will make us rethink our personal and institutional obligations.
— Donald Kennedy, Ph.D., Stanford University President, Emeritus