Statistical information about foreign students attending Canadian educational institutions and on Canadian citizens and landed immigrants who have obtained their university education abroad is presented and discussed. A review of Canada's dependence on foreign-trained university graduates indicates that almost 20 percent of Canadian university…

An explanation of three innovative techniques the author has used successfully to introduce undergraduate and graduate students to sociological methodology. The three methods are: (1) body-learning, which involves moving students around physically in ways analogous to the data manipulations being taught; (2) experimental learning, which involves…

A movement in many states proposes licensing those that wish to identify themselves as professional counselors. In attempting to pass licensing legislation, however, the question of support becomes a critical one. In order to survey the attitudes of a group of Human Development Counseling (HDC) graduate students, licensure, program accreditation…

A graduate-level management training program in gerontology is presented through a description of a consortium of two universities (Boston University and Brandeis University) and consisting of three types of training (gerontology and aging, sociology and social work, and management techniques). The areas of interest described in these materials…

The Harvard-Yale-Columbia Intensive Summer Studies Program (ISSP) was established in 1965 to prepare students from predominantly black and selected southern white colleges for graduate study in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, and related fields. In 1966, 59% and in 1967, 71% of the ISSP class went on to graduate school. The original plan…

A four-part questionnaire was constructed and administered to the users of the Kansas State College Library to aid the library staff in planning for effective library service and in developing a book acquisition policy for the next ten years. The four surveys conducted were: (1) departmental, in which academic departments were asked to indicate…

Reported is a project for 38 teachers, enrolled in a graduate school reading course, who participated in a Title I summer reading program for 313 low achieving ghetto students. The teacher-graduate students served as tutors four days per week and attended college sessions on the fifth day. These sessions were devoted to instruction in the use of…

This study compares the effects of two procedures for teaching communication skills to graduate students enrolled in a masters-level counseling and guidance program. Skill training was based on Carkhuff's model and used refinements made by Gazda. Three treatment settings were established: 12 hours of skills training using videotape equipment, 12…

A 30-item survey was developed to assess several dimensions of attitudes about calculators. Reliability and validity data were gathered on students in a college statistics course. Based on N = 135, coefficient alpha was .874. Factor analyses identified 3 interpretable factors: trustworthiness of calculators, usefulness, and educational value.…

Because competency-based instruction assumes objectives, pre-assessments, learning alternatives, and post-assessments, college instructors must begin to establish programs with these components. To determine how valuable students perceive each component to be and to discover the extent to which students use each possible learning alternative, 60…

Graduate students do need and can benefit from instruction in the basis of composition, but the definition of what each student basically needs will vary so greatly that individual instruction is the only meaningful way to meet those needs. The demand for such instruction spurred the development of a graduate course at North Texas State University…

Because of the emphasis placed upon selection of materials for the undergraduate in the last two decades, the library needs of graduate students have not been given adequate attention. Due to research and specialized methods of teaching, graduate students search for a broad range of material instead of using reading lists and course reserves. In…

As long as blacks are underrepresented in graduate and professional schools, they will continue to be underrepresented in the professions and other policy-level positions. Historically, and today, the barriers to graduate education faced by blacks are diverse and include financial assistance, racism, recruitment practices, admissions policies,…

The use of Videotape-Electrowriter Remote Mode (VERM) to deliver advanced level engineering graduate courses to student not on the University of Tennessee campus is described. Begun initially as an experimental project in 1969 using videotape equipment to record blackboard presentations, classes are now sent to other campuses and to industries…

There are several barriers to increasing the number of black graduate students in the universities. The first impediment is the loss of overall graduate student support which will be sharply felt beginning in the fall of 1971. The Nixon Administration's program places a heavy emphasis on loans and persons from low income families are often…