Describes a new way to link graduate education and entrepreneurship, the Intellectual Entrepreneurship program at the University of Texas at Austin, which provides opportunities for graduate students to discover how they can use their expertise to make meaningful and lasting differences in their academic disciplines and communities--to become…

Graduate faculties may be forced to change and to undertake serious reform. (HS)

Ph.D.'s are facing the worst job market in years. (HS)

In spite of the severe changes in the environment of graduate education during the past 5 years, most departments have been able to adjust in ways that allow them to continue their programs. (Author)

Discusses the work of the Panel on Alternate Approaches to Graduate Education. (PG)

Black students are encountering difficulty in gaining admission to graduate schools, and once in, the attrition rate is great for financial and scholastic reasons. (HS)

Increasingly, graduate schools and schools of continuing and professional studies are offering postbaccalaureate certificates, credentialing programs that reflect new demands in the workplace and global markets. The certificate programs lead to or supplement a graduate degree, recognize mastery in a professional or technical field, or focus on…

An independent task force, sponsored by HEW, has recommended that the bulk of federal funds for graduate study be distributed directly to students in the form of portable fellowships, rather than have the aid channeled through universities and their graduate departments. (Author)

The Rhodes Scholarship has traditionally been for males only - this article describes women's battle to open the scholarship to all qualified persons. (PG)

Reviews recent reports on graduate education and offers the following recommendations: train specialists for social service, continue federal fellowships, develop long range planning for graduate level manpower preparation, and develop equality of access for disadvantaged and minority students. (Author/PG)

Established in the 1950's with Ford Foundation funds, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences continues to provide competent scholars an opportunity to advance the status of social and behavioral sciences. (IR)

Although enrollments in undergraduate liberal arts curricula and in traditional graduate programs are slowing, enrollments in explicitly inter- or multidisciplinary graduate liberal education programs are increasing. Some of these programs are described. (LBH)

The present ludicrous Ph.D. program is a tragic waste of human lives and economic resources. (IR)

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation combined its concern that few top flight scholars are choosing the humanities for careers and its awareness of the current oversupply of humanities faculty to create a $24 million fellowship program to direct talented graduate students into English and comparative literature, American studies, history, classics,…

Discusses the increasing numbers of African Americans who are both attending graduate school and planning on academic careers. Suggests that academia will profit in many ways from this trend, noting that African American scholars are resisting labeling, finding arenas of research that resist racial categories, and desire a mandate for…