Interrogating the Support and Care for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Graduate Students Experiencing Grief and Loss

• In Event: Hearing Their Voices: Learning From Graduate Students

Abstract

Graduate student attrition is a perennial issue in higher education. Despite deemed levels of student excellence, promise, and efforts made by programs to counter student departure, attrition rates remain high, especially since the offset of the COVID-19 pandemic (Donohue et.al, 2021). To better understand the types of resources needed to support graduate students' enrollment and eventual completion, this research project will examine ways to best support graduate students, and more specifically, BIPOC graduate students, who may be disproportionally experiencing grief and loss during these unprecedented times.

Author

• Chinasa A. Elue, Kennesaw State University
  Presenting Author