Examines the program choice of doctoral students in higher education administration. Results indicate influential factors vary according to gender, enrollment status, age, and race. Offers implications and recommendations as they relate to enrollment management, admission, and recruitment in graduate education. (Contains 38 references and 3…

Describes one teacher's experience of teaching composition theory on the graduate level at a Canadian university. Explains that there are only two rhetoric and composition programs in Canada and that, generally, Canadian universities have been slow to make the transition from neocolonialism to postcolonialism. (TB)

Investigates the nature of input available to learners in the institutional setting of the academic advising session. Results indicate that evidence for the realization of speech acts, positive evidence from peers and status unequals, the effect of stereotypes, and limitations of a learner's pragmatic and grammatical competence are influential…

Focuses on the qualifications of an ideal candidate for an undergraduate teaching position, such as competence, including linguistic, cultural and pedagogical skills; collaboration, or the ability to cooperate effectively with students, colleagues, and people from the local community; and commitment, i.e., a dedication to serving one's…

Focuses on the career opportunities available at community colleges for graduate students. The article describes the focus, curriculum, and ambience of the typical two-year college. It is concluded that an overriding requirement for teaching in these institutions involves not lesson plans or learning strategies but individual motivation. (two…

Examines the poor professional preparation of college students for postgraduate employment. The article maintains that students are unprepared to teach upper-division courses in second-language instruction. A lecture series to address problems in teaching these courses was developed and offered as a minicourse. (CK)

Discusses three papers presented at the 1994 ALA (American Library Association) annual convention in Miami Beach (Florida) that deal with investment information in academic libraries and their use by faculty, doctoral students, undergraduates, MBA (Masters of Business Administration) students, and individual investors. (Author/LRW)

Presents the results of an analysis of diaries of novice English-as-a-Second-Language teachers. General themes that emerged were novices' early preoccupations with their own teaching behavior, transfer and rejection of teaching skills used in the novice's own second-language learning, discoveries about effective teaching, and continued teaching…

Raises a number of questions about the direction of the English department in light of its fundamental transformations. Asks whether the profession wants to replace the study of literature with the study of culture or critical methodology, i.e., semiotics and semantics. Looks at graduate education and the place of literature in it. (TB)

Addresses key questions regarding how multicultural counseling programs arise, recommends readings that address ethnic parity in counseling psychology, and makes arguments in defense of affirmative action in psychology departments. Addresses the related issue of federal funding for psychology graduate students. (SNR)

Two case studies involving graduate education majors illustrate how multicultural/antiracist education and computer-mediated communication can interact successfully and further broaden cultural sensitivity in technology through diverse perceptions and contributions. Facilitating factors included theory-to-practice concepts, Internet dialogue, and…

Describes a "Basics of Teaching Physics" course as an approach to training teaching assistants (TAs) in science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) departments. The regular graduate course is based on constructivist learning: TAs construct their own understanding through guided questions, problem solving, reading and analyzing papers,…

Discussion of information available on the Internet focuses on two pilot studies that investigated how academic users perceive search engines and subject-oriented databases as sources of topical information. Highlights include information seeking behavior of academic users; undergraduate users; graduate users; faculty; and implications for…

Describes a University of Iowa Libraries' user needs assessment survey of a random sample of graduate and professional students. Results showed the need for more assistance in using the library, greater awareness of library services offered to graduate students, and the desire for more opportunities for library instruction. (Author/LRW)

Explored United Kingdom postgraduates' individual accounts of the experience of learning to see whether or not such descriptions of process reflected assumptions about "adults" appearing in some research literature. Found a diversity of approaches and experiences which did not fit with the idea of a distinctively "adult" way of…