Surveys alumni and program directors to determine relationship between participation in internship and success in graduate school for students served by the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program. Internship rigor was positively related to success in graduate school as measured by placement, secured funding, and completion. Three…

Compares two accredited marriage and family therapy programs: one includes a separate course on gender, and the other integrates gender through the curriculum. Results indicate that students from the integrated program view their peers as incorporating gender ideas in therapy to a significantly greater extent. Students from the program that has a…

Future collaborative teacher training programs must meet customer needs and foster more shared responsibility. This article considers a medical-school model that offers only graduate-level training, requires training programs to control their own admissions, relocates teacher-educators' offices and coursework in selected school buildings, and…

Previous econometric studies of relationship between undergraduate debt and postbaccalaureate activity generally do not find an inverse relationship between debt and activity. Multiequation model developed in this article shows that increase in expected educational debt significantly reduces probability that a student expects to enroll in graduate…

Business management students in a graduate entrepreneurship course diagnosed and researched problems for clients of the Small Business Development Center and presented findings to clients, the class, and evaluators. The model gives students conducting experience and develops closer ties to the business community. (SK)

Based on the author's experience as advisor to practicing administrators in their final year of a three-year part-time masters program in education management at a British university, this article explores whether the academic demands of an award-bearing program and those of action learning interact detrimentally. The strands of activity should be…

A graduate student and faculty adviser use narrative to explore how the power dynamics of this relationship affect knowledge creation and graduate student socialization. Their stories illustrate aspects of ethics, power, responsibility, gender, and reproduction of inequitable social structures. (SK)

Graduate students (n=134) used the analytic hierarchy process, which weights expressed preferences, to rate four learning activities: lectures, discussion/reflection, individual projects, and group projects. Their preferences for discussion/reflection and individual projects were independent of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles.…

Study seeks to determine the content of higher education law courses in student affairs graduate programs and the legal focus in presentations at the American College Personnel Association and National Association of Student Personnel Administrators national conferences. Reviews syllabi from 23 institutions and conference programs from 1990…

A British Columbia off-campus program enables cohorts of adults to undertake graduate study at a distance. Groups promote transformative learning and continuing professional development. Key principles include adult-centered learning; diverse, inclusive groups; learner participation in program design; and collaborative learning. (Contains 49…

The McNamara/Thompson guidelines for teaching basic statistics in principal preparation programs say courses should stress data analysis skills; illustrate statistical concepts using school-related, real-world data; concentrate on descriptive statistical methods; and familiarize candidates with univariate distributions, exploratory data-analysis…

Offers a personal portrait of graduate training and compares it to that of today. Discussing the appearance of polarization between research and teaching, emphasizes the importance of both in whatever the institutional setting and argues that the discovery of new knowledge should underlie the work of all postsecondary teachers. (Author/VWL)

Describes the experiences of 12 Sri Lankan teacher educators as they developed Internet-based study materials while undergoing specialized postgraduate training at the University of Woolongong (Australia). Topics include teaching and learning with the Web; and designing Web study guides, including links to other Web sites. (Author/LRW)

A description of collaborative teaching in an online course shows the combined challenges of virtual classrooms and team teaching were faced. Teachers and learners adopted new roles, and new teaching structures were created to provide focus for learning in an asynchronous environment. (SK)

Provides a response to the reactants of the authors' article (2000 [this issue]). Praises the reactants' comments about theory, research, training, and practice which expanded the authors' overview of suicide by focusing on contemporary issues in suicidology and provide specific suggestions for counseling psychologists who are dealing with…