Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine mentoring relationships involving minority graduate students in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors take a multifaceted approach to providing strategies to improve the opportunities of minority students to acquire mentors by directing attention to institutional practices, faculty development, and the behaviors of students themselv...

Numerous studies have found a host of factors that are likely to result in more successful applications to graduate schools. This study was a retrospective examination of the variables that distinguish graduate students who believed they were better prepared for graduate school. We examined several of these factors, including variables associated with undergraduate education and the individual ...

This study focuses on analysing the acceptance level with online education among under graduate and post students during period of pandemic especially Covid-19. In this regard, student perception was analysed using secondary data as collected from various sources. As COVID-19 threatens academic calendars, educational institutions around world have been closed about 70% are engaged in education....

We cover a large geographic area from Longreach to northern New South Wales, as well as our large metropolitan population. The degree of specialisation of our teams allows large numbers of patients to be offered involvement in clinical trials – from small investigator initiated trials to large international co-operative group trials. The increasing number of trials available attests to the incr...

Pledging went slowly at fraternities and independent living groups on the first day, but picked up slightly in the late afternoon. By midnight Wednesday morning, 233 freshmen had pledged fraternities and ILGs, said Interfraternity Council Membership Recruitment Chair Dakus S. Gunn ’01. About one-half of an estimated 350 bids were accepted by 4 p.m. yesterday, according to reports from residenti...

Information literacy instruction for graduate students has historically been limited to orientations for new students Some of the reasons for this limited instruction have been faculty members' assumptions that graduate students already possess Information Literacy skills or should be able to figure out the process of finding, accessing and evaluating information on their own (Hardesty, 1995), ...