This report presents the findings and recommendations of a workshop regarding the effect of international economic and technological changes on graduate student training in the physical sciences and mathematics. Concerns identified about current graduate training include the declining availability of public resources to support training, the…

In light of the importance of mentoring as a tool for social integration into the "organization culture," this research examined mentoring in academia among women at the graduate and undergraduate level in three programs at the University of Minnesota. The three programs were designed to recruit, retain, and graduate persons of color at…

Instructional design is a process that is creative, active, iterative and complex; however, many diagrams of instructional design are interpreted as stifling, passive, lock-step and simple because of the visual elements used to model the process. The purpose of this study was to determine the expressed perceptions of the types of flow diagrams…

Barriers to doctoral dissertation completion were identified from a review of empirical studies of doctoral graduates and graduate students who had not completed a dissertation (ABD students) and reviews of components of doctoral persistence. The Dissertation Barriers Scale, comprising 45 items, was constructed and administered jointly with 2…

The potential application of the appraisal theory of emotions developed by I. Roseman and others (1990) to transactional models of stress-produced emotions in the work place was tested. Data were gathered from 231 graduate students in counseling who were asked to rate their appraisals of taking a new job and subsequent emotional reactions, as well…

This study compared the scores of on-campus and off-campus students taking a common final examination in similar graduate education courses offered by the Abraham S. Fischler Center for the Advancement of Education at Nova Southeastern University. Data were obtained from final examinations administered in courses covering methods for teaching…

This study examined the attitudes toward gay men and lesbians among male and female undergraduate students and graduate students at Bowling Green State University (Ohio). The subject pool included 99 students between the ages of 18 and 48. The sample included 47 males, 52 females, 60 undergraduate students, and 39 graduate students. A…

As college teachers and graduate assistants cope with the everyday demands of their profession, they may not feel like members of an elite group. As members of the academy, however, they occupy a space that is in many ways quite privileged. They work with ideas rather than tools; they critique social structures rather than simply living them; and…

A study investigated the conceptual and functional meanings of the concept of conflict from the perspectives of United States culture (a low-context culture) and Chinese culture (a high-context culture). Subjects, 50 American and 48 Chinese graduate students in a midsize northeastern university, were interviewed using a semi-structured format to…

John Swales, well-known proponent and definer of genre theory, sees the writing process as recursive as well as heuristic, emphasizing that the text is created by a writer, who is a member of a discourse community, influenced by that community's traditions, discourse conventions, textual and topic requirements and constraints. Debate among genre…

The purpose of this paper is to describe an evolving conceptual framework resulting from the use of a computer mediated discussion assignment in a graduate nursing course over the past several years. The objective has been to build a consensus among classmates via electronic communication concerning readings about making new knowledge more…

Some studies report that almost half of American workers wish they held different jobs. This paper analyzes the relationships between both the quality and frequency of optimal experience and counselor development. A questionnaire consisting of a 12-item measure of optimal experience, the Supervisee Levels Questionnaire--Revised, and a 1-item…

The power relations between ethnographers, teachers and students present more than a few difficulties. When one graduate student sat in on--in fact, became a student in--another graduate student's elementary composition class, "The American Experience through Literature," several problems arose concerning the status of the…

The purpose of this paper is to dispel myths about preparing program proposals for the American Psychological Association's annual convention. The report's goal is to increase the number of student presenters at future annual conventions. It has been determined that, for a variety of reasons, psychology graduate students participate more in poster…

The current recessionary market has destabilized national hiring practices in the fields of literature and composition in the United States. Some predict a growth in academic openings in the next several years, but the trend is a shrinking of the job market. In response, graduate programs may need to return to the basics of teaching writing and…