Questionnaires were returned by 814 graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin in response to a survey of their opinions and attitudes on the adequacy of academic advising procedures and the sources of information most commonly utilized when they need information on topics pertaining to their graduate work. The study was undertaken in…

Different and competing theories of the disadvantagement of women in academia are explored through reviews of the literature and an examination of the graduate training experiences of men and women. An explanatory model of graduate training experiences from a human capital theory approach is constructed that considers the human capital accumulated…