This document presents the proceedings and addresses of the 25th annual conference of the Association of Graduate Schools in the Association of American Universities. Presentations cover: doctorates in the seventies, postdoctorates and employment, graduate student support, and methodology toward assessing quality in Ph.D. programs. Reports of the…

This paper presents a profile of minority graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. Following a brief overview of Berkeley's Graduate Minority Program (GMP), data is presented concerning the number of GMP students supported; available funds and average grants for students from 1968-69 to 1973-74; distribution of GMP students…

A very significant and enigmatic situation confronting graduate education today is the lack of adequate and reliable data relating to the manpower supply and demand and employment status of Ph.D.'s. Considering this, the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States authorized a study of the manpower situation. A questionnaire was sent to…

On the instruction of the Council of Ontario Universities, the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning in cooperation with the Committee of Ontario Deans of Engineering has conducted a planning assessment for doctoral work in industrial engineering and systems design. Recommendations for doctoral work in engineering studies are presented.…

The "Epistle" is the publication forum of the professors of reading teacher educators a special interest group of the International Reading Association. In this issue "Doctoral Programs in Reading: Organization and Faculty," by Robert Palmatier and Anthony Manzo, reports on the results of a survey of a sample of 17 programs graduating doctorates…

Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who desire a useful research tool, this bibliography cites the works of and about British novelists, beginning with Joseph Conrad and terminating in 1950. The listings are selective with proper emphasis given to less celebrated but distinctive writers. A preface explaining the numerous…

This is one of a series of reports by technical consulting groups that are advisory to the Montana Commission on Post-Secondary Education. The primary purpose of these reports is to provide the commission with information relevant to its task of developing plans for the future of Montana postsecondary education. The technical group was required:…

Producing a viable graduate program in curriculum requires identification of the audience for the program and determining new areas for professional participation. The program must be flexible enough to meet the individual needs of its participants and must make them capable not only of coping with change but also of using various methodologies to…

Three approaches that can guide a nation's public policy with respect to graduate education and the supply of highly educated persons are discussed: manpower planning, human capital analysis, and the principle of free student choice. The first two perspectives were judged to be inappropriate and the free-choice principle endorsed. The reliance on…

This document explains the functioning of Polish institutions under control of the Ministry of Higher Education and other ministries and enumerates important proposed steps for reforms in Polish higher education. A major portion of the study contains detailed tables of statistics on the curriculums, enrollments, and graduations of various Polish…

It has often been suggested by economists and other social scientists that the educational system may conveniently be viewed as a production process. The primary output of this process is an increase in the student's stock of knowledge and skill, and the inputs to the process including the student's time (the productivity of which depends upon a…

This paper presents the conceptual development and application of a new interactive approach for multicriterion optimization to the aggregate operating problem of an academic department. This approach provides a mechanism for assisting an administrator in determing resource allocation decisions and only requires local trade-off and preference…

This report provides data on doctoral production and attrition at The University of California at Berkeley and also nationwide to provide a baseline for comparision of progress or regression. It was designed to contribute to the indentification of those aspects of graduate life that need affirmative action in order to bring the proportion of…

This second volume of the series of the Albany Regional Medical Program represents a condensation of the collected data relating to the health manpower inventory of the Region and the presently available educational facilities for training health care personnel. Six sections of this volume include: manpower directions in New York State: 1965-1975;…

This document reviews a study project on the state of graduate studies in political science in Canadian universities. Data collection were based on a review of graduate programs and a questionnaire sent out to graduate advisors. Results of the study indicate: (1) Canadian political scientists have a very favorable opinion of the quality of…