Examining African American Female Students’ Decision to Pursue the Doctorate

African Americans have made great advancements in postsecondary education. Over the last 30 years, enrollment and degree attainment has increased over 65 percent at undergraduate and graduate degree levels (National Center for Education Statistics, 2008). In 1976, barely 111,000 African Americans pa...

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1. Verfasser:	Carmen M. McCallum
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Academic communities Academic degree programs African American studies African Americans American minorities American studies Anthropology Behavioral sciences College students Colleges Curricula Doctoral programs Doctoral students Education Educational administration Educational institutions Ethnic groups Ethnography Ethnology Families Family members Formal education Graduate schools Graduate students Graduate studies Higher education Human societies Parents Pedagogy School enrollment Schools Social institutions Sociology Students
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Zusammenfassung:	African Americans have made great advancements in postsecondary education. Over the last 30 years, enrollment and degree attainment has increased over 65 percent at undergraduate and graduate degree levels (National Center for Education Statistics, 2008). In 1976, barely 111,000 African Americans participated in higher education. Today, over 2.4 million have enrolled or obtained a college degree, and projections indicate that enrollment and degree attainment will continue to increase well into the twenty-first century (NCES, 2008). The increase in participation over the last 10 years is partially reflective of the momentous gains African American women have made in pursuing graduate education.