Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

LaRuth McAfee, State University of New York-Stony Brook; David Ferguson, State University of New York-Stony Brook; LaRuth McAfee, State University of New York-Stony Brook

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

career choices and experiences ofunderrepresented minority undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and facultymembers in STEM disciplines. Special attention is given to exploring factors influencingdecisions to move along paths leading to the professoriate. Questions being studied include 1)what are the key factors influencing minority students' decisions to pursue graduate study inSTEM, 2) what are the key factors influencing graduate students' decisions to select the STEMprofessoriate as a career choice, and 3) what are patterns in the experiences of minority graduatestudents, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty in STEM disciplines, with particular attention toexperiences in engineering fields? Related research includes current