This article was written by Dr. Terrell Lamont Strayhorn—Director of the Center for Higher Education Enterprise. He is also Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies within the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.
Interestingly, in this article, Strayhorn began his introduction by showing research data from US Department of Education (p.90). It described a demographic distribution of college students—undergraduate, graduate and doctoral—that enrolled across all colleges and universities in the United States. He strived to make the audience, the reader of this article, start to prepare and engage with the factual and actual information about higher level education.1 Afterwards, he cited a lot of other sources to provide a clear picture and to amplify his notion about its problematic.2 He described the similarities and differences characteristic that influence undergraduate and graduate students continue their study, a phenomenon typically known as “attrition” or dropping out” (p.92) among graduate students and relationships between graduate students’ socialization and their success in…show more content… The survey studies’ aim was to obtain basic information about graduate students’ demographic characteristics, academic backgrounds, motivations, social experiences and including how they felt a sense of belonging in their school; He also provided a table as a result of his surveys. Whereas, the interview studies’ purpose was to make deeper meaning of the survey findings and get more information and focusing on circumstances or conditions that either foster ( or inhibit) graduate students’ sense “fitting in” among others in their field
