Socialization in Higher Education and the Early Career Theory, Research and Application

This book celebrates the contributions of John Weidman and his colleagues to the understanding of student socialization in higher education. It includes innovative chapters reflecting new approaches to higher education student socialization with respect to students of color, gender, STEM, and students in higher education systems outside the USA. Specifically, the book examines socialization between and within in a range of groups, including national, international and minority students, parents, doctoral students, early career faculty, and scholarly practitioners. The book assesses methodological approaches and suggests directions for reformulating theory and practice. Using sociological perspectives to address issues and concerns at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, the book gives renewed life to the college impact literature. It includes revisions and expansions of the original Weidman frameworks based on the synthesis of existing research with new work reflectingunique perspectives by a variety of authors.

John Weidman has been an indisputable force in the study and understanding of student socialization in higher education. This new book by Weidman and his coeditor, Linda DeAngelo, represents an undeniably significant and welcomed expansion of the original “Weidman model” of student socialization. In updating and revising the original model, chapter authors give attention to various contemporary issues such as student diversity, gender differences, early career experiences, and internationalism. Whether one samples only some of the articles that constitute this book or reads all of them, the professional payoff will be substantial.

Kenneth A. Feldman, Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University

John Weidman has made a number of groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of student socialization in postsecondary education. This book, edited with Linda DeAngelo, brings together a group of fine scholars whose contributions will push our understanding even further. It is a significant addition to the college impact literature.

Ernest T. Pascarella, Petersen Chair in Higher Education, University of Iowa

 

Section One: Introduction.- 1. Student Socialization in Higher Education: An Exploration.- 2. Conceptualizing Student Socialization in Higher Education: An Intellectual Journey.- Section Two: New Perspectives on Undergraduate.- Socialization.- 3. Tied Together Wirelessly: How Maintaining Communication with Parents Affects College Adjustment and Integration.- 4. Rethinking Weidman’s Models of Socialization for Latinx.- Along the Postsecondary Educational Pipeline.- 5. Creating Porous Ivory Towers: Two-way Socialization.- Processes that Embrace Black Students’ Identities in Academia.- Section Three: Socialization into Professional Careers.- 6. The Professoriate in Liberal Arts Colleges: Early Career.- Faculty Socialization and Learning.- 7. Doctoral Student Socialization and Professional Pathways.- 8. Preparing the Scholarly Practitioner: The Importance of Socialization in CPED-Influenced EdD.- Programs.- Section Four: International Perspectives on Student Socialization in Higher Education.- 9. The Socialization of International Doctoral Students in the USA.- 10. Professional Socialization and Career Development of Chinese International Tourism and Hospitality Students and Graduates: A Revised Framework. 11. Understanding Graduate Student Socialization in China: A Theoretical Framework.- 12. The Socialization of Doctoral Students in the Emergence of Structured Doctoral Education in Germany.- Section Five: Diversity and Interdisciplinarity in STEM.- Graduate Student Socialization. 13. Doing, Caring, and Being: “Good” Mentoring and its Role in the Socialization of Graduate Students of Color in STEM.- 14. Emancipatory Research Counter-spaces: Re-Examining Black Doctoral Student Socialization.- 15. Interdisciplinarity and Doctoral Education: Socialization, Process, and Outcom.- Section Six: Epilog.- 16. Implications of Measurement Issues for Advancing the Socialization Framework.- 17. Toward a 21st Century Socialization Modelof Higher Education’s Impact on Students.

John C. Weidman is emeritus professor of higher and international development education at the University of Pittsburgh.  Over his career, he has served as department chair and institute director as well as consulting extensively on international higher education reform and policy.  He developed a framework for undergraduate student socialization (Weidman, 1989) that was expanded to encompass graduate and professional student socialization (Weidman, et al., 2001; Weidman & Stein, 2003). These models formed the bases for a more comprehensive framework (Weidman, 2006; Twale, et al., 2016) that will be expanded further in the proposed book.  This work on student socialization in higher education is widely recognized (Weidman, 2006, 1989; Weidman, et al., 2001; Weidman, et al., 2014; Weidman, 2010; Weidman & Stein, 2003), having been cited more than 1600 times on Google Scholar.