The curriculum of the GPS program is informed by research on graduate student experience and outcomes, and student interest at UBC.  The following is a sampling of publications related to:

• Graduate Student Development
• Graduate Student Experiences
• Graduate Student Retention and Attrition Studies

Graduate Student Development

Disparate Academic Environments: An Emergent Framework of Socialization [.pdf] by Michael D. Thompson, published in The Qualitative Report

Doctoral Student Learning and Development: A Shared Responsibility by Carolyn R. Bair, Jennifer Grant Haworth, and Melissa Sandfort, published in the NASPA Journal

For Better or For Worse: Improving Advising Relationships Between Faculty and Graduate Students [.pdf] by James T. Minor, Michigan State University

Mentoring Relationships in Graduate School [.pdf] by Harriet R. Tenenbaum, Faye J. Crosby, and Melissa D. Gliner, published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior

Socialization of Graduate and Professional Students in Higher Education: A Perilous Passage? edited by John C. Weidman, Darla J. Twale, and Elizabeth Leahy Stein, special issue of the ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report

The Effects of Doctoral Socialization on Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy by Dean Campbell, published in Academic Exchange Extra

The Ph.D. in the U.S.: Criticisms, Facts, and Remedies by Maresi Nerad, University of Washington, published in Higher Education Policy

What Matters in Graduate School? Exploring Patterns of Student Engagement, Academic and Personal Development [.pdf] by Huiming 'Ming' Wang, University of Missouri

Graduate Student Experiences

At Cross Purposes: What the Experiences of Doctoral Students Reveal About Doctoral Education by Chris M. Golde and Timothy M. Dore, prepared for The Pew Charitable Trusts

Database of Dissertation Studies Focusing on the Doctoral Student Experience (1980-2003) by Elaine Parent, University of California at San Diego

Dissertation Writers' Negotiations with Competing Activity Systems by Dana Britt Lundell and Richard Beach, University of Minnesota

In Search of a Dissertation Committee: Using a Qualitative Research Approach to Study a Lived Experience by Laurie Hernandez, published in The Qualitative Report

Negative Interactions with Faculty: Graduate Student Experiences by Karen Jagatic and Loraleigh Keashly, Wayne State University, published in Conflict Management in Higher Education Report

Social Skills Difficulty: Model of Culture Shock for International Graduate Students by Raquel Faria Chapdelaine and Louise R. Alexitch, published in The Journal of College Student Development

The Experience of Being in Graduate School: An Exploration edited by Melissa S. Anderson, special issue of New Directions for Higher Education

Graduate Student Retention and Attrition Studies

Climate for Graduate Students in Science and Engineering Departments [.pdf] by Elizabeth Litzler, Sheila Edwards Lange, and Suzanne G. Brainard, University of Washington

Context Factors Related to Women Attrition from a Graduate Science Program: A Case Study by Maria Madalena Ferreira

Degree Progress of Women Doctoral Students: Factors that Constrain, Facilitate, and Differentiate by Michelle A. Maher, Martin E. Ford, and Candace Thompson, published in The Review of Higher Education

Doctor Dropout: High Attrition from Ph.D. Programs is Sucking Away Time, Talent, and Money and Breaking Some Hearts, Too by Scott Smallwood, Chronicle of Higher Education 

Re–Envisioning the Ph.D. resource archive from the University of Washington and the Pew Charitable Trusts

Rethinking the Dissertation Process: Tackling Personal and Institutional Obstacles edited by Lester F. Goodchild, Kathy E. Green, Elinor L. Katz, and Raymond C. Kluever, special issue of New Directions for Higher Education

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Student Descriptions of the Doctoral Attrition Process by Chris M. Golde, published in the Review of Higher Education

The Path to the Ph.D.: Measuring Attrition in Sciences and Humanities by the National Research Council Office of Science and Engineering Personnel

The Ph.D. Completion Project sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools

What You Don't Know: Graduate Deans' Knowledge of Doctoral Completion Rates by Frank J. Elgar and Raymond Klein, published in Higher Education Policy