A postgraduate course on palliative nursing includes four class sessions and four peer review meetings in which students discuss case studies and assignments. The course is intended to prepare nurses for the bureaucratic, biomedical, social-therapeutic, and informal roles of terminal care. (SK)

Surveyed new faculty about the pivotal events in their graduate teaching experiences which contributed positively and negatively to their professional development as teacher scholars. Responses fell into the areas of scholastic, planning, management, presentation and communication, evaluation and feedback, and interpersonal skills. (EV)

This presidential address draws on the body of research on graduate education and the early career faculty experience to argue that the current preparation of aspiring faculty does not fully match the demands they are likely to face in the near future. Concludes with recommendations for improving the preparation of the next generation of faculty…

The slow demise of the graduate vocational teacher education program at Rutgers University illustrates some of the problems facing vocational education and teacher education today. (JOW)

Examines whether American Psychological Association (APA)-accredited and nonaccredited programs differ in views and offerings of neuropsychological training. Of 72 programs surveyed, 59 percent of APA-accredited programs and 53 percent of nonaccredited programs offered course work in neuropsychology. Found that students viewed neuropsychological…

Graduate study has long been important for professional development in adult and continuing education. The use of a variety of strategies can make this a highly proactive approach to such development. (Author)

Nursing information specialists perform such roles as user liaison, information systems installer, systems analyst, coordinator of patient care systems, and knowledge engineer. A survey of 97 informatics specialists shows that the majority work in hospitals, 67% have training in information systems, and 63% have master's degrees. (SK)

Explores the application of counseling principles to teaching. These include establishing a relationship, using group skills, recognizing transference, and managing countertransference. (Author)

Describes how a graduate student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln uses his distance education courses to improve production on his family's farm. (EV)

Provides a directory of 136 assistantships in college unions and student activities from 47 schools. The first section is a tabular listing allowing comparison of assistantships. Information in this section is grouped by Association of College Unions International regions (a map delineating the regions is provided). The second section is a…

Gives black scholar Thomas Sowell's personal account of his journey from Howard University, a historically black college that provided him with what he perceived to be a mediocre education, to Harvard University, which challenged him intellectually and socially. He attended Columbia University to study for his master's degree, then moved on to…

Middle managers taking postgraduate courses identified the extent to which learning organization principles were practiced in their organizations. The process used indicates a role higher education can play in introducing learning organization concepts in graduate study. (Contains 42 references.) (SK)

Evaluated a peer review process in a graduate instructional design course. Discusses influences on the effectiveness of peer review and proposes peer review as an authentic and efficient means to introduce graduate students to the strategic knowledge needed to apply instructional design skills. (Author/LRW)

Looks at graduate programs in career and technical education that offer innovative ideas that can boost enrollment while maintaining or improving the academic experience for students. (JOW)

This paper focuses on the design and implementation of Gerontology: Synthesis and Action, the capstone seminar for the undergraduate and graduate certificate in gerontology program at Marylhurst University, a small, private liberal arts university in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. The institutional and programmatic context in which this…