Success in Graduate School and Beyond is designed to empower graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in STEM with practical tools, tips, and skill development strategies to plan and create their dream career pathway. Intended as a professional development course book, this balanced, self-reflective guide to workplace readiness is organized into five sections that support graduate student development: self-reflection, wellness, skills, networking, and planning for future success. Written in a conversational style, this guidebook includes clear learning outcomes based on the authors’ successful graduate professional development course at the University of Toronto. Covering increasingly important career subjects such as mentorships, transferrable skill development, emotional intelligence, and EDI, this guidebook solves a skills gap and builds core competencies demanded from industries and academia. Interspersed personal accounts from the authors about key topics and seven Alumni Career Profiles describing various career trajectories work to encourage self-awareness and promote essential skill development and networking proficiency. With this book, STEM students will be equipped with the abilities and tools to achieve success in graduate school and beyond.

Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and connectedness is down, empathy across citizens is deteriorating, political awareness and participation are low, and job prospects and financial security are sobering for many citizens, even the college educated. The response to these pressures is not to double down on one mission of higher education, namely job creation. Instead, higher education marching into the next decades requires an integrative approach that promotes job creation, skill development, citizen cultivation, and knowledge dissemination—all oriented towards strengthening communities and providing opportunity for all citizens to pursue the good life. Across eight chapters, this book provides historical and theoretical analyses of the role of higher education in society across these four missions, as well as applied mini and extended case examples demonstrating how the four missions can be successfully integrated. The extended cases consist of one pedagogy example, a teaching initiative labeled “joined up service learning” that represents deep partnership between the university and community, and an institutional design case of an academic research center and its work conducted in partnership with community stakeholders. Recommendations are advanced for an integrated approach to performance funding of higher education institutions, tenure and promotion expectations for faculty, and graduation requirements for students, among others.

Peterson's Graduate Schools in the U.S. is the "snapshot" paperback version of the hardcover Peterson's Graduate & Professional Programs: An Overview (book one of the six-volume hardcover Grad series). This book includes articles with information on how to finance a graduate education, tips on choosing the right program, and why accreditation is important. It has up-to-date information on hundreds of U.S. institutions that offer master's and doctoral degree programs in a wide range of fields--from accounting to zoology--with facts and figures on enrollment, faculty, computer and library facilities, expenses, and contact information. The program listings are searchable by state or filed and includes an alphabetical school index.

Maybe you've already made it through law school and are about to embark on the real-life art of practicing law. There are a few things you need to know to be successful! A career in law can be one of the most fast-paced and exciting ventures. However, if you fail to lay the proper foundation, you could end up with no evidence to support yourself. Take it from the pros—there is a right way to do things! Join these three legal brains as they come together to give you Strategies for Success in Law School and Beyond.

Differentiated Academic Advising Strategies for Students Beyond the Margins features the voices of current scholars and practitioners who articulate culturally responsive academic advising strategies that expand traditional academic advising practices. The chapter authors encourage higher education practitioners to situate their work within the unique and diverse needs of their students for the purpose of truly and authentically supporting the whole student. Additionally, this volume highlights new and innovative scholarship centering on the needs of diverse students.