This guide for prospective graduate students contains information on funding graduate study in the United States and abroad through scholarships, loans, and other programs. The chapters are: (1) "Graduate Degrees, Institutional Financial Aid, and Graduate School Application Tips"; (2) "External Funding"; (3) "Individual Training Fellowships"; (4)…

This paper describes two cases that illustrate the role of collaborative reflection in developing a culture of inquiry and individual and organizational renewal in school-university partnerships. Three assertions underlie the study: that individual renewal leads to organizational renewal; that developing a culture of inquiry is a prerequisite to…

This report examines the matrix of support patterns of science and engineering doctorates in 1995, showing the distribution of various modes of support to individuals. The data provided in this report are intended to be a source of contextual and background information for those interested in examining the various types of graduate support modes…

Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) allow users a small profile, battery-operated, and relatively low-cost way to take many of the capabilities of a personal computer into the field. This combination of features suggests a great potential for the use of a PDA as a field data collection instrument. This research compared the use of one kind of PDA…

This study examined relationships among doctoral candidates' background characteristics, research preparation, research environment, research involvement, student-advisor relationship, research self-efficacy, and dissertation progress. The study focused on differences in research self-efficacy and dissertation progress among students from the…

This study examined the matriculation status of all fall term 1993 master's level students of the Center for Psychological Studies of Nova Southeastern University by fall term 1998, differentiating between campus-based students and distance education students at individual sites. Data on matriculation rates were obtained on 382 campus-based…

Two writing teachers designed a graduate-level seminar where other writing teachers could share writing with the global electronic community. They expected these seminar students to embrace this new technology because the benefits of Internet writing seemed to provide a practical way to promote audience, voice, and collaboration, three of the…

The report describes the work of an American Association of Colleges of Nursing task force charged with defining the central elements of master's education for advanced practice nursing. The task force formed a consensus for two separate but related components: a statement of the essential core curriculum content for master's-educated nurses and a…

A graduate course that challenged classroom teachers to make a meaningful connection between the research literature and effective classroom teaching strategies was designed and analyzed. The Tennessee State University course, Advanced Science in the Elementary School, is a team-taught doctoral level course for teachers trained in a hands-on…

This document contains 35 papers on graduate and inservice teacher education and technology that address the following topics: teaching practice and the design of professional development activities; merits of mentoring and modeling in Internet technology integration; educating the educators; preparing teachers to investigate the effects of…

For people concerned with the future of diversity in the United States, the month of June 2003 was a momentous watershed. Nearly four decades earlier, President Lyndon B. Johnson first advocated affirmative action as a means to "seek not just freedom, but opportunity." June 2003 also saw the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's…

Using traditional building materials and a fast-track recipe, the architects, acting as construction manager, completed the Graduate Chemistry Laboratory at Stony Brook, New York, two full years ahead of schedule. (Author/MF)

Discusses the graduate engineering management program of Drexel University, including student characteristics, program objectives, academic requirements, and course options. Indicates that the program serves the demand for management talent by providing students with skills different from those of conventional programs. (CC)

Results of a survey of 486 admissions officers at undergraduate institutions and graduate, law, and medical schools for their opinions on various traditional and nontraditional grading systems. (Editor)

Considers ways in which the effectiveness of teaching research competence to doctoral students might be enhanced by examining the psychological climate of the teaching-learning situation and exploring ways in which this environment may be made maximally conducive to learning. (Author/JM)