The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

Suggests that great literature is endangered by the critical dissections which graduate schools perform upon it and that a return to the study of literature for its own sake is essential. (TO)

The study sought to determine if doctoral graduates of North Carolina State University's Department of Adult and Community College Education who perform different professional roles (teaching, research, program development, administration) have different perceptions of the utility of the department's educational objectives. (Author/MS)

The basic arrangement of this review is by country, with entries for Great Britain and the United States sub-divided into periods. (RN)

This survey of Ph.D. graduates from three accredited library schools to determine opinions of their professional education includes recommendations for increased interdisciplinary emphasis at the master's level, provision of practicums, and continued development of postmaster's programs. (Author/MBR)

Offers a rationale for involvement of nursing doctoral programs in health services research, which examines health care delivery. Presents recommendations of the Re-envisioning the Ph.D. project, which identified problems in doctoral programs. (Contains 46 references.) (SK)

Offers a sociological perspective--informed by Weber, Foucault, and Latour--on transformations of doctoral education in countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Asserts that doctoral education has been remade, or translated, by the importation (in simplified form) of practices, beliefs, knowledges, documents, and…

According to responses from 76 percent of 200 nurses surveyed, nurses who earn doctorates in any field are likely to go on to conduct nursing research. What seems more important than type of degree is whether the nurses were exposed to computers or participated in faculty research as doctoral students. (Author)

The application of a pairwise comparison methodology (Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process) to the doctoral program selection process is illustrated. A hierarchy for structuring and facilitating the doctoral program selection decision is described. (Author/MLW)