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absel-3024	DePorres, Daphne; Livingston, Roland E.	Launching New Doctoral Students: Embracing the Hero's Journey	2016	8	.pdf	application/pdf	6920	354	61	Keywords: Hero’s Journey, doctoral student, learning commu- nity, cohort, doctoral INTRODUCTION This case explores the value of a two-hour experiential ac- tivity that elicits the perceptions, and examines the anxiety and comfort levels of students entering a doctoral program, with a view toward students’ successful completion of the program. This phenomenon of doctoral persistence and its converse, attrition, is most puzzling given that “Paradoxically, the most academi- cally capable, most academically successful, most stringently evaluated, and most carefully selected students in the entire higher education system—doctoral students—are the least like- ly to complete their chosen academic goals” (Golde, 2000, p. 199).	cache/absel-3024.pdf	txt/absel-3024.txt