Understanding Admitted Doctoral Students’ Institutional Choices: Student Experiences versus Faculty and Staff Perceptions

Abstract

How does status consumption operate among the middle classes in less industrialized countries (LICs)-those classes that have the spending power to participate effectively in consumer culture? Globalization research suggests that Bourdieu's status consumption model, based upon Western research, does not provide an adequate explanation. And what we call the global trickle-down model, often invoked to explain LIC status consumption, is even more imprecise. We study the status consumption strategies of upper-middle-class Turkish women in order to revise three of Bourdieu's most important concepts-cultural capital, habitus, and consumption field-to propose a theory specific to the LIC context. We demonstrate that cultural capital is organized around orthodox practice of the Western Lifestyle myth, that cultural capital is deterrltorialized and so accrues through distant textbook-like learning rather than via the habitus, and that the class faction with lower cultural capital Indigenizes the consumption field fo sustain a national social hierarchy.

Rethinking the Structure of Student Recruitment and Efforts to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Doctoral Education

“…Posselt (2013) posits professors also have valuable roles to play in encouraging the yield of desired populations. In their study of a highly selective American research university, Bersola, Stolzenberg, Fosnacht, and Love (2014) point to the particular importance of faculty contact in the yield of underrepresented minority students.…”

Recruitment Efficacy of a Summer Undergraduate Research Program: Impact on Graduate School Intent and Selection

“…Institution factors are of least importance to students in selecting a graduate school after participation in the USRG program. Results suggest that as a group, the USRG program participants are already beginning to consider a graduate school selection criteria that students consider when matriculating in a graduate program 2 . Individually, however, some participants are still considering factors (e.g.…”

“…Individually, however, some participants are still considering factors (e.g. location, cost, academic reputation) that are important to students at the beginning of their search process 2 . This suggests that either the summer undergraduate research experience influences each participant differently because of dissimilarity in experiences across the different program dimensions or has no influence on the participants' criteria for selection of a graduate program.…”

“…This would help universities determine strategies to effectively recruit summer undergraduate research program participants to the university in case the factors that influence student's final selection of a graduate program change during the "lengthy and complex" (p. 516) decisionmaking process 2 .…”

“…Successful recruitment of an inclusive student body is essential to enriching the quality of graduate programs 1,2 . Therefore, universities implement multiple activities to recruit diverse students for post-baccalaureate studies to their institutions.…”