The Rutgers University Career Opportunities Program (GCOP) was designed to give graduate opportunities to otherwise excluded groups. Presently the program requires 60 credit hours of college from applicants, although a baccalaureate degree is not required. Almost without exception GCOP students are non-white and poor, and the program often…

The purpose of this study was to identify the optimal graduate school admission policy for a medium size state university. The techniques used were Bayesian and cost-benefit decision analysis. Standardized test results, personal interviews with university administrators, and performance of graduate students provide the data necessary for…

This document examines graduate studies in the history departments of the universities of Ontario. Emphasis is placed on the present state of affairs in relation to: faculty, graduate students, master's programs, Ph.D. programs, cooperation, and libraries and archives, immediate developments, and the future. A summary of the recommendations…

This booklet contains a summary of the colloquium discussion including the major observations and recommendations, and three of the papers that were presented. The colloquium discussion focussed on a number of broad questions in relation to foreign graduate student programs: (1) prospects, assumptions, policies; and responsibilities from the…

In this memo the graduate faculty of the University of Washington records the approval by the Graduate School of the policy that the Doctor of Arts (D.A.) degree may be offered by the faculty in specifically authorized graduate units at the university and sets forth the general characteristics expected in graduate programs which may be offered…

This collection of readings, comments, and class notes has been prepared for the law student as an introduction to the research methods of sociology. The fundamental argument is, that in the growing use of social science by the law, the lawyer needs to know how the social sciences accumulate their evidence and build their theories. The materials…

A brief description of these materials is given in SO 000 276. This volume contains the last four sections of readings, comments, and class notes on: the problem of sampling, the problem of inference, measures of association, and data analysis. An 11 page bibliography of additional readings in methodology is appended. (SBE)

This study is an analysis of the educational attainment of teachers, based on the hypothesis that educational preparation beyond the necessary level is beneficial to the teacher, the school student, and the educational administration alike. The questions considered are 1) What changes in teacher aspirations and values are brought about by advanced…

The papers in this volume were delivered at a Symposium on the "Effective Use of Resources in State Higher Education" at the annual meeting of the Southern Regional Education Board in Houston, Texas, June 11-12, 1970. The papers deal with three general subjects: (1) the orderly development of graduate education; (2) evaluating the community junior…

This paper is intended to begin laying out the organizational specifications for analyzing clinical settings in education (settings in which the activities of teacher development and educational research are carried out in close conjunction with a public school system's instructional program). Seven organizational properties important to…

A verbatim conference report of papers, seminar group reports, panel discussions, and program reviews was compiled to stimulate development of an overall plan for educational change and the creation of special structures to execute the plan. Major conference presentations included: "Emerging Strategies and Structures for Educational Change in the…

By 1980, the cost of graduate education may reach an annual rate of $20 billion, the number of graduate students may rise to 1.3 million, and substantially increased federal support for most US colleges and universities will be required. This report presents a national policy for graduate education that would maintain the current strong position…

This brief summarizes the data obtained during a survey of 105 predominantly white US graduate schools of arts and sciences concerning black enrollments and Ph.Ds recently awarded to Negroes. The survey was conducted during the summer of 1968. Seven statistical tables summarize the responses of 64 of the institutions on enrollments, 63 of which…

This plan for the Berkeley campus of the University of California is an attempt to formulate an educational blueprint for the development of the campus schools, colleges, academic departments and research units during the 1970's. In contrast to previous academic plans which encompassed a decade of continuous expansion and were concerned with…

This research identifies urban-oriented interdisciplinary instructional programs currently being offered at colleges and universities throughout the United States, presents an overall analysis of these programs, and ascertain the vocational and educational areas of pursuit chosen by graduates of these programs. Following a description of the…