Data on summer and fall 1981 enrollments in Pennsylvania colleges and universities are presented, including a brief narrative section on trends. Detailed statistical tables cover the following: enrollments by enrollment status and by sex, fall 1972-1981; total enrollments by type of institution, fall 1972-1981; enrollments by level of study, fall…

This coursebook provides information on the concentration in educational gerontology in the Masters Program in Adult Education at the University of Southern Maine (USM). The first section discusses educational gerontology, including its areas of focus, for whom the concentration is intended, courses in the concentration, and the certificate in…

The specific nature of graduate level economics programs in the United States was identified by this study. A survey was mailed to 240 schools listed as having a graduate economics program. A total of 102 schools (42 percent) responded, with 92 schools indicating that they currently have a graduate economics program. Survey questions were asked…

This article describes the design of a web-based environment that links teaching strategies used in different faculties with graduate attributes. Whilst graduate attributes have existed at the University of Wollongong since the 1990s, this is the first time teaching strategies that enable students to develop these attributes have been articulated…

A comprehensive description--at the national level--of those who applied for admission to the 1976-77 freshmen class of U.S. medical schools is given in this report. In order to relate this 1976-77 applicant cohort (and those accepted from it) to certain social trends in medical education and to continue monitoring changes in the size of applicant…

The Doctor of Arts (D.A.) degree, designed as a preparation for college teaching is discussed. Alternatives to the D.A. degree, variants of the Ph.D. and Ed.D. that are directed at college teaching, are summarized. The Ph.D. and D.A. are compared and the advantage of the D.A. program in preparing college teachers is outlined. A history of the…

Results are presented of a survey designed (1) to discover which universities throughout the world (Africa, North America, South America, Central America, Asia, Australia, and Europe) provide courses in adult education as a field of study and (2) to facilitate discussion at a 1970 international conference. An introduction describes conditions of…

The Master of Arts programs in Human Development and Education at Saint Mary's College (Minnesota) arose in response to a need felt by many involved in the helping professions for a nontraditional approach to graduate education. The program is designed to develop competence in understanding one's own growth as well as that of others with whom the…

The academic program review process that accounts for conceptual properties of loose coupling is analyzed, and organizational theory literature is reviewed with regard to program review and loose coupling. In addition, the academic program review process used at Ohio State University is described in detail, and the elements of loose coupling…

This paper focuses on the structure, process, and accomplishments during the first two years of the Developing Interculturally Skilled Counselors (DISC) project, which trains and supervises eight pre-doctoral trainees for one-year appointments in the areas of intercultural awareness, knowledge, and skill. Objectives of the project are listed and…

Based on adult learning and reading acquisition theories, the model forming the basis of a one-semester graduate course resulted in increased competencies of thirty-five presently employed or future adult basic education teachers each of whom taught reading to one adult illiterate during the course. The model consisted of assessment of reading by…

Types of degrees offered by Arkansas colleges and universities are described, and information on degrees conferred and output trends are examined. Data are presented from 1972-73 through 1979-80. In this time period, public institutions had overall increases of 15.3 percent in the number of degrees awarded, with the greater percentage of increase…

Suggestions for faculty who are attempting to improve their advising skills without the benefit of a formal program are offered. Good advisement is always a process composed of timely responses in areas relevant to student education. The scope of advising may encompass the following: describe the intent of the general or liberal arts part of the…

Alumni of Bellarmine College, Kentucky, who had obtained B.A. or B.S. degrees from 1974 to 1978 were surveyed in 1979. Areas of assessment were as follows: majors, desired occupation at time of graduation, attendance at graduate school, present employment status, jobs held by respondents, reasons why respondents chose their present jobs,…

The emergence of the field of labor studies in both undergraduate and graduate programs, its struggle for acceptance within academe, and its effects within the labor movement are studied. Particular emphasis is given to the impact of the credentials issues on the character of the American union, which has traditionally prized experience rather…