- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Beating the odds: Factors that impact Black STEM doctoral students' time to degree, 2020
- Creator:
- Terrell, Michael S.
- Date of Original:
- 2020-12
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Research into university programs and whether or not the participation of minorities is being addressed are critical areas of concern within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field at all collegiate levels. The National Science Foundation and the Council of Graduate Schools have both issued a call to get more minority participation in STEM at the doctoral level. The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to explore Black STEM doctoral students’ perceptions of factors that contributed to graduating in five years or less. This study conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with students from two urban research universities, one Historically Black College or University (HBCU), and one Predominantly White Institution (PWI), in the South to determine similar themes among the sample. The researcher found that the participants’ perceptions of the variables hypothesized to help Black STEM doctoral students graduate in 5 or fewer years were mixed. Tenacity was mentioned by all of the participants as a necessary character trait to graduate in a timely fashion.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2020_terrell_michael_s
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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