Doctoral student success: McGill university’s holistic support model

Abstract

This chapter is a retrospective account of our observations and reflections of McGill University’s cultural shift in supporting graduate student success. We are administrators at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, who have adapted our thinking about doctoral student success to take into account student needs and experiences, and to facilitate skills development. Our approach is to look at the whole student, consistent with the World Health Organization’s definition of health and Laverick’s (Health promotion practice: Power and empowerment, Sage, Thousand Oaks 2004) “Wellness Wheel”, which we have adapted for the doctoral student context.