Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey
Student Peer Support, Mentorship, and Success in the Academy
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that support Black women student success in higher education. This edited collection focuses on Black women students primarily at the doctoral level and how they have retained each other through their educational journey, emphasizing how they navigated this season of educational changes given COVID and racial unrest. Chapters illuminate what minoritized women students have done to mentor each other to navigate unwelcome campus environments laden with identity politics and other structural barriers. Shining a light on systemic structures in place that contribute to Black women’s alienation in the academy, this book unpacks implications for interactions and engagement with faculty as advisors and mentors. An important resource for faculty and graduate students at colleges and universities, ultimately this work is critical to helping the academy fortify Black women’s sense of belonging and connection early in their academic career and foster their success.
Keywords
early career growth;professional success;communities of support;supporting students;critical framework;racial minority;sense of belonging;university;colleges;academy;mentors;advisors;black women;student success;mentoring;peer mentorship;mentorship;career;faculty;higher education;graduate students;Doctoral Journey;Student Peer Support;Stem Major;Black Women Faculty;Peer Mentorship Networks;HWI;Endarkened Feminist Epistemology;Student Affairs;Black Undergraduate WomenDOI
10.4324/9781003394648ISBN
9781003394648, 9781032484853, 9781032496177, 9781000935141, 9781000935134Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2024Grantor
Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Sociology
Ethnic studies
Educational strategies and policy
Gender studies: women and girls
Teacher training