An Exploration of Graduate Student Satisfaction withAdvising in Departments of Agricultural Education,Leadership, Communications, and Extension

摘要

Graduate students depend on their advisors to assist them in accomplishing their career goals andambitions. According to the mentoring–empowered model, as proposed by Selke and Wong (1993), theroles that an advisor plays are: teacher, encourager, role model, counselor, and sponsor–socializer. Thepurpose of this study was to determine the satisfaction of graduate students in a department ofagricultural education, leadership, communications, and extension with their advisors in terms ofcommunication, trust, openness, acceptance, and growth as illustrated in Selke and Wong (1993). Thefollowing research objectives were derived from the mentoring constructs found in the mentoring–empowered model (Selke & Wong, 1993). Overall agricultural education graduate students (N = 274)are satisfied with their advisor. Agricultural education graduate advisors are knowledgeable in the areas