School law must be recognized as a prerequisite in training for good school administrators. What is really needed is awareness of the law, so that legal counsel will be called in when needed. Graduate courses should never be directed toward any other goal. In pursuing that goal, courses should cover both procedural and substantive law. The unique…

This report is based upon the National Science Foundation (NSF) 1975 Quick Response Survey which consisted of a stratified random sample of l,297 departments in 294 institutions (including 67 medical schools) granting a Ph.D. in science or engineering. Variables investigated were: (1) area of science, (2) full-time enrollment number, (3) part-time…

This paper was prepared in response to a need for a rational basis upon which to analyse and appraise existing and proposed organizational structures for advanced education in Alberta, Canada. The Rationale for Organization developed in Chapter 1 is based on a humanistic philosophy that views man as free and capable of infinite perfectability…

This four-part document examines the efforts of the University of Wisconsin/Sears-Roebuck Foundation (UW/SRF) Individually Guided Education (IGE) Teacher Education Project. It is stated that the project was organized to initiate perservice and graduate programs, and thereby to encourage the development of self-renewing systems of education, from…

Information is presented on existing retraining programs for women in chemistry, listed alphabetically by state. Data are included on a few institutions that do not have special programs in chemistry but do stress retraining for women. Included are 11 colleges and universities, with a brief description of the program offered, information on…

This 24-page booklet compiled by the U.S. Forest Service lists 49 colleges and universities in the United States which offer forestry curriculums leading to an undergraduate and/or graduate degree in forestry or related areas. Brief descriptions of each program are included. Schools accredited by the Society of American Foresters are indicated…

A 45-item questionnaire was sent to the 287 member graduate schools of Council of Graduate Schools in the United States in the fall of 1969. The purpose of the questionnaire was to determine graduate admissions and fellowship selection policies and procedures. A total of 245 usable questionnaires were returned for an 85 percent response rate. The…

A graduate level course was developed and tested using the techniques of computer-managed instruction (CMI) to teach the techniques of programed instruction. The CMI system included diagnostic testing, remediation, data collection, and record keeping. A study guide, independent of the computer, directed the student to textbooks and other printed…

This paper discusses the trends in Federal support for doctoral education from 1960-1971. The peak of Federal support was in 1968-69, with funds for fellowships decreasing significantly in the ensuing years. Because of cuts in Federal R&D expenditures many of the new doctorates are no longer as easily absorbed by the job market as in previous…

The award rate of doctorates has tripled since 1960 and the projections indicate that by 1980 the rate will be somewhere between 60 and 70,000. In recent years every facet of the PhD has come under attack. The degree will probably be reshaped from a standard of achievement and accomplishment to a standard of potential, from a demonstration of the…

Several special programs have been recently developed to make graduate study possible for Negroes who have potential but do not meet educational requirements of national scholarship or fellowship programs. The Southern Fellowships Fund, created by the Council of Southern Universities, Inc., administers several programs of the Council, including…

A basic design for a post-graduate university program in policy sciences is presented in this paper which aims at raising issues and bringing out the main dimensions of policy sciences teaching rather than supplying definite solutions or a detailed "model program." The suggested approach is interdisciplinary, with two years residence and the…

A questionnaire on grading systems was sent to the 287 members of the Council of Graduate Schools. Of the 240 responses, 127 indicated that they used systems other than the A-F traditional system, either in part or in toto. Other systems used include pass/fail, satisfactory/unsatisfactory, pass/no credit, and some variations of the A-F traditional…

In shaping the future of a university, a host of factors enter the planning picture. Some of these are historic and relate to tradition, others relate to institutional leadership and the pattern of governance, and others to the needs of the region and the community which the institution must serve. Some factors can be regressive such as the…

The impetus for modifying or eliminating the A-F grading system has come primarily from students. Faculty reaction has been more one of bowing to pressure than that of a carefully considered response. Arguments for and against the traditional grading systems each have merit. It seems illogical, however, to repeat on the graduate level a grading…