This is the third annual survey of total graduate and postdoctoral enrollment in science and engineering in the United States. Data elements collected from 7,505 departments of 355 Ph.D.-granting institutions include: enrollment status (full and part-time); level of study (first year and beyond first year); citizenship; sex of students; type…

This study compared 105 women university baccalaureates intending graduate study the year following graduation with women graduates matched by age and major who did not intend such study. Aspirers had significantly higher GPAs than non-aspirers, were more satisfied with their undergraduate major, had more often selected their major as preparation…

This issue of "Epistle" contains articles viewing the work of reading professionals from four vantage points. Richard Allington assesses the value of doctoral programs from the perspective of a research trainer. Anthony Giordano presents a method for developing the independent thinking and problem-solving skills of preservice teachers. Rita…

Washington's Senate Resolution 1976-233 directed the Council for Postsecondary Education to survey courses offered in institutions of higher education in Washington, covering such areas as Canadian problems, government, history, natural resources, and so on, and compile an inventory of courses covering such Canadian subject matter. The response to…

Reactions from local educators to the proposed combined Masters Degree Program in Elementary and Secondary Education at Indiana University, South Bend, were elicited in personal interviews, group meetings, written responses, and telephone conversations. Responses and questions are summarized according to the format of the program description under…

This document is the first in a multi-document final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Program in Educational Research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, September 1972 to August 1974. Part one of this document gives a brief overview of the entire final report, describing the three products emerging from the program (student growth,…

This document, the sixth of a final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Program in Educational Research, is a collection of three essays. The first--Notes on the History of Interdisciplinarity--by Judy Rosen, brings together and outlines the general points and findings of the literature that has been generated in an attempt to evaluate the…

Students at Colorado's Graduate School of Public Affairs gain experience in places like the state house or Steamboat Springs before facing the tough demands put on today's government administrators. (Editor)

A University of Louisville (Kentucky) graduate-level preservice program involving counselor-consultants and reading specialists is designed to integrate the skills of both groups into an interdisciplinary, team approach aiding children with academic and/or behavioral disorders. (MJB)

During his graduate-study-abroad summer program, the author found that the career education movement in England and Scotland concentrates on the school-leaving age of sixteen, rather than the developmental career education features in this country. He notes some national differences and offers suggestions for learning on both sides. (MF)

Using a model followed in earlier research, graduate and professional school grades are predicted from undergraduate grades and standardized aptitude measures. Results indicate that first year grades in graduate school are more predictable than senior grades. (Author/JKS)

It is noted that the Supreme Court's Bakke decision does not require affirmative action in admissions--it merely allows it. The Court's support for the use of race as a permissible criterion in university admissions is no guarantee to minority persons that they will receive special consideration in competition with whites. (Author/LBH)

An assessment of the present situation, future needs, and changes in response to those needs of graduate programs in business administration is formulated. (MDR)

Results support the application of adaptation level theory to college grading standards, for it was found that at the institution student fields with lower ability students as compared with those with higher ability students employed less stringent grading criteria. (Author/RC)

Based on a study of 52 high school seniors treated by a clinical professor of pediatrics and psychiatry, this report discusses developmental difficulties experienced by college-bound students as they anticipate acceptance or rejection by an institution. Considered are: the application form, interviews, waiting period, early decision, end of high…