Addresses three issues of concern to mental health counseling profession: professional identity, curricular expectations, and degree differentiation. Sees "mental health counseling" as preferred term for the profession as a whole. Sees 60-hour master's degree as terminal program, with doctorate expanding master's-level competencies in effort to…

Presents overview of select components most often found within family training programs: the study of systems theory, examination of family of origin, use of live supervision, and emphasis on ethical issues specific to working with couples and families. Discusses variety of challenges facing training programs, including constructivism, feminist…

Calls for historians of rhetoric to return to the archives. Argues that it is the neglect of training graduate students in standard research methodologies that prevents the field from writing "better" histories of rhetoric. Argues for archival training similar to that given to graduate students in history departments, training tailored…

Offers advice to graduate departments on how to inform graduate students about their programs. (Author/VWL)

Engineers need to develop leadership skills as well as technical knowledge to contribute to industrial innovation. Engineering education should be based on an industry needs-driven model of innovation and technological development. (SK)

Responses from 480 of 620 nursing education programs indicated the following: 24% continued with the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission; 30% switched to the new Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education; 24% plan to be accredited by both; and the new agency's alliance model was attractive to 38%. (SK)

The following criteria considered important predictors of academic and professional success were used to develop a selection method for a graduate nursing program: grade point average, nationally recognized examination, references, nursing experience, career progression, and professional development activities. (SK)

Describes methods for assessing graduate students: precourse, incourse, postcourse, and long-term assessment as well as the educational process that students experience. Addresses comprehensive program evaluation via peer review. Lists eight suggested readings and 12 related Web sites. (SK)

Suggests that working beyond the academy should be understood not as an abandonment of the academic job market, a response to failure, or a curse: instead, it should be understood as a new avenue for intellectual work, one that neither graduate-school programs nor the Modern Language Association would be wise to ignore. (RS)

Describes an elective six-week advanced practice experience for PharmD students and a required module for graduate students designed to prepare students for teaching roles. Course and rotation evaluations have been positive. Also includes perspectives of two students who tell how they applied the principles learned in roles of graduate teaching…

Replication of a 1994 study of 219 undergraduate nursing faculty used a sample of 130 graduate faculty. Results showed that 79% received a two- to three-day orientation. Longer programs yielded more information and covered topics more comprehensively. (SK)

Graduate nursing students (n=21) wrote descriptions of how they used intuition in clinical practice. Undergraduates in a nursing research course used these exemplars to learn about content analysis and develop their own intuitive thinking. (SK)

Describes mentoring in gerontology education from several perspectives: mentors versus advisors, types of mentors, phases of mentoring, mentor selection, and career advancement issues. (SK)

A study of the time it took 618 students to earn Ph.D.s in economics found that those with fellowships or prior master's degrees finished faster. Those who took jobs before completion and women with children took longer. No differences appeared in relation to marital status, gender, age, and program size. (Author/SK)

Presents the official listing of accredited doctoral programs in psychology created by the Committee on Accreditation. All of the programs offer the PhD degree, except when otherwise noted. The listing includes contact information as well as the original date of accreditation for each program and the date of the next regularly scheduled site visit…