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'Playing The Game' for Black Grad Students
Eric Joy Denise shares advice and insights for new and prospective students.
Securing Funding During Graduate School
The freedom that research support brings is particularly important for radical scholars of color, writes Victor Ray, who gives advice on how to obtain it.
The Confessions -- and Confusions -- of a First-Generation Scholar
While a huge literature exists on first-generation undergraduates, there is only silence about what happens to those students when they go on to doctoral or faculty life. Herb Childress provides an insider’s description.
The Racialization of Academic Funding
The well-substantiated racial differences in research support are yet another hurdle that scholars of color face -- one that sets many of us behind, argues Victor Ray.
Program Recruitment From the Margins
Lauren Michele Jackson explores what role graduate students -- especially minority women students -- play in their program’s recruitment efforts.
Teaching While Black
KC Williams speaks to any black faculty member who has ever felt imposed upon or discriminated against for reasons having nothing to do with their abilities.
Stepping Off the Tenure Track -- Part II
Fatimah Williams Castro offers three steps to consider when exploring your career options.
Stepping Off the Tenure Track -- Part I
Who exactly did I think I was, Fatimah Williams Castro asked herself, to want to leave the professoriate?