The addresses and committee reports presented at the meeting of the Association of Graduate Schools include: (1) an editorial by W. Donald Cooke on the confusion over the direction graduate education should be taking; (2) a report by the President, Bryce Crawford, who feels that graduate admission must be highly selective and graduate instruction…

Briefly reports on a Conference held in Washington, D.C. of the American Association of University Women in May 1974. Topics covered include: social factors and attitudes, support systems for graduate women students, admissions, counseling, financial support, and legal positions. (Author/PG)

ACS Graduate Education Panel recommends: (a) that new graduate programs should be developed to augment traditional programs. (b) that new Ph.D. granting departments should be established only if a need exists and they can be adequately financed. (DS)

This article has two thrusts -- the first, to present the model and guidelines developed at the Purdue NASSP-PSSAS Conference, and the second to summarize reactions from the field to the proposed model. (Editor)

ACS Panel on Preparing Chemists for Society's Future Needs recommends: (a) that educational community broaden its curriculum at all levels so that educational programs are more society oriented. (b) that government agencies support multi-discipline research and make use of chemists to solve social problems. (DS)

These proceedings of the Fourth Annual Association for Communication Administration (ACA) seminar include an outline of the areas of concern for the speech communication arts and sciences by Dr. David H. Smith; a list of the persons attending the seminar and participating in the preparation of the task force reports; David H. Smith's paper Current…

The papers contained in the first section of this publication were prepared as background material for a Contemporary Music Project (CMP) Conference on College Music Curricula held in October 1970. The papers concern musical analysis and evaluative competence, compositional processes and writing skills, music history and literature, performance…

Included in these proceedings are papers on such topics as developments and trends in two-year engineering technology programs, cooperative education programs, women in engineering, registration and certification of engineering technology graduates, management education, market analysis, continuing engineering education, industrial training…

Presented are position statements for the support of the mathematical sciences and a description of the present state of both research and education in mathematics and related disciplines. The report calls attention to the penetration of mathematics and mathematical modes of thought into many new areas of scholarship and the resultant increase in…

The proceedings open with an editorial "Time for Change," by Dean W. Gordon Whaley who warns that unless graduate education examines not only the nature of its successes and does everything it can to enhance them, but also the reasons for the failures and alienations and does its utmost to remove those, it will be headed for extinction.…

The rationale, history, strengths, and weaknesses of Doctor of Arts programs preparing students to become specialists in the education process both as theoreticians and as teaching practitioners were discussed at this conference. Formal presentations and workshops are reported as they were presented at the conference. Workshops and other sessions…

The development of a methodological framework for planning, programming, and budgeting which is specific to graduate training and research activities at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is described. This pilot project is regarded as a step towards developing and implementing a generalized approach to an output-oriented finance…

This document presents the proceedings and addresses of the 25th annual conference of the Association of Graduate Schools in the Association of American Universities. Presentations cover: doctorates in the seventies, postdoctorates and employment, graduate student support, and methodology toward assessing quality in Ph.D. programs. Reports of the…

Discusses the agenda, arrangements, and costs of a regional meeting designed to help seniors in planning careers. Suggests the physics groups sponsor similar meetings in their regions. (CC)