California Polytechnic State University's College of Business and College of Engineering have joined forces to create a joint Engineering Management Program (EMP). Students holding undergraduate engineering or equivalent degrees enter and earn both Masters in Business Administration and Masters of Science in Engineering in 24 months. The program…

The Technical-Professional Communication (TPC) Option at Maryland's Frostburg State University is a response to the growing demand from government, business, and industry to prepare MBAs to meet the high performance requirements of managers who must communicate and communicators who must manage. Students taking this 15-hour writing-intensive…

A Georgetown University course in English writing for academic purposes for foreign linguistics graduate students is described. The Writing Lab was conceived as a discussion session to accompany two commonly selected linguistics courses in which much writing is required. The initial class consisted of seven Japanese and two Taiwanese students with…

The way that college business programs address international dimensions was studied, based on a survey of business curricula in 11 colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Information was gathered in 1982 from catalogs and written materials as well as from telephone interviews. All of the schools studied, except Stanford…

Descriptions of 592 institutions that offer baccalaureate, graduate, and postdoctoral nursing programs in the United States and Canada are provided. An introductory section discusses the history and nature of university-based nursing education, both baccalaureate and graduate. The profiles, which include a general description of the college, cover…

This paper describes how clinical child psychologists are trained in a pediatric psychology program and emphasizes their interface with the school. The need for clinical child psychology training is stressed, and training programs for pediatric psychologists and clinical child psychologists are compared. The collaborative pediatric psychology…

This paper addresses the development of three graduate courses which integrate international and global aspects in the course content. The University Center for International Rehabilitation at Michigan State University is described along with its goals and objectives. The purpose and content of the three courses are summarized, including: (1) the…

This article describes a sequence of marriage and family counseling courses offered within the context of a Masters program in counselor education. Following the rationale for the courses and a general program discussion, the seven courses in the family counseling sequence are enumerated and explained, including: (1) theories of family counseling;…

General guidelines for judging and evaluating advanced degree programs are presented, and the several types of degrees and specific graduate programs are discussed in detail. Graduate programs may be fully prescribed for all students, may have significant elements of flexibility permitting adaptations to individual needs and aspirations, or may be…

Part of a broad survey of administrator preparation programs in the United States, the study reported here was an analysis of professors' open-ended responses to questions about recent and projected changes in their educational administration programs. Content analysis was used to examine past changes, expected changes, patterns of change, and…

Community mental health curriculum in schools of social work education is discussed. The contents are compiled from a series of empirical studies, interviews, and meetings with social work faculty and students, and from analyses of curriculum materials as part of a three-year study conducted by the Council on Social Work Education. Chapter 1…

Progress in the 10 years since the doctoral program in higher education was begun at the University of Georgia and events during the academic year 1978-1979 are reported. Differences between expectations and realities of the program are discussed and the future of higher education is seen as uncertain and challenging. Staff assignments are…

The third annual report of doctoral program changes at institutions in the west, conducted by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), is presented. Information included in the report was compiled from a survey of doctoral-level private institutions and state higher education agencies in the 13 WICHE states. Data are…

A 5-YEAR GRANT FROM THE FORD FOUNDATION SUPPORTS THE CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. THE MISSION OF THE CENTER IS TO (1) ESTABLISH A NATIONAL DEPOSITORY OF MATERIALS RELATING TO VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DISSEMINATION CENTER, (2) CONDUCT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD, (3) SUPPORT GRADUATE…

This paper is a descriptive history of programs for teacher educators at Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1935 to 1965. Individual sections review the doctoral program in 1935, the development of the master's programs, the beginning of a preservice program, reorganization and readjustment in 1935, the widening responsibilities of the…