In recent years, some very smart people--like Michael Berube, Marc Bousquet, Anthony Grafton, and William Pannapacker, to name a few--have offered on these pages their thoughts about how to fix graduate education and, by extension, the academic labor market, which, everyone seems to agree, has "unraveled". The author approaches this issue from a…

The problems of the formation of the professional and personality qualities of graduates of higher educational institutions became especially relevant during the period in which Russia was making the transition to the new economic course of action, the system of market relations. However, the roots of these problems are to be found in the…

The author argues that specialization belongs in graduate nursing curricula at the doctoral level, in programs offering the doctor of science in nursing (DSN) degree. She states that all doctoral nursing programs should offer this degree. (CH)

The academic discipline of physical education never materialized into an identifiable set of laws or theories. It has been more convenient to dabble in the parent disciplines raising the question of whether graduate programs in physical education are so fragmented that extermination is the most appealing managerial alternative. (MT)

Problems confronted by the professoriate in higher education are discussed including: (1) the nature of higher education as a field of study, (2) the nature of the professoriate in higher education, and (3) the campus environment of higher education as a field of study. (Author/MLW)

The notion of rural social work as a specialty as well as how educational programs can address the specialty and whether the required specialized knowledge falls into a given sequence or whether it cuts across them all are discussed. (Author/MH)

Higher education is described as a name for the highest formation of soul and mind, and the highest goal of education is "wisdom." Practical wisdom and theoretical wisdom are seen as exemplified at their peak in the comprehension of the genuine statesman and the genuine philosopher. (MLW)

Four manifestations of organizational and professional segmentalism are discussed: the influence of the graduate school and the resulting preeminence of professional specialization; faculty orientation toward the discipline (and the department) rather than the institution; overspecialization in undergraduate degree programs; and faculty reward…

The implications of Americans' oral health status for the predoctoral dental curriculum and for dental education in general are discussed, including enrollments, graduate and continuing education, the specialties, and research. (MSE)

Positive aspects and drawbacks of extending master of library science programs to two years are discussed by the library school deans at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of South Carolina. Curriculum, specialization, internship programs, apprenticeships in teaching and research, and student and faculty viewpoints are…

Integration of knowledge is as critical to understanding as is new knowledge. Specialization requires new forms of integration. Graduate programs should teach future faculty to synthesize, seek new relationships between parts and whole, relate past to future and present, and find patterns of meaning not seen through traditional disciplinary…

Six points with which graduate education should be concerned are argued: Maintain the quality and quantity of graduate education and attendant reserach; articulate graduate programs with industry and government; welcome second career; encourage specialization; revitalize the M.A.; and maintain a high level of Ph.D. production. (JMF)

Discusses need for social scientific research, clinical social scientists in pharmacy, and specialists in pharmaceutical sociology and the other social sciences. To illustrate, patient noncompliance with drug regimens and the use of sociology to analyze the problem are examined. Includes a sample program in pharmaceutical sociology, course…

John Agresto, whose task has been to rebuild the war-ravaged infrastructure of a Middle-Eastern university system, is discouraged to see that narrow expertise is the only goal of education there, to the utter exclusion of intellectual breadth. He comments that, although it is not that bad in the U.S., he feels that doctoral programs as currently…

A discussion of the role of graduate education in preparing future college faculty looks at efforts over the last 45 years to integrate graduate study and professional socialization. Issues examined include the importance of specialized academic preparation, the role of teaching assistantships and internships, and the contribution of schools of…