Suggests that graduate students in English take at least one course that will help them learn about, responsibly critique, and prepare to shape the profession they are entering. Notes that the aim of the course would be to contextualize pedagogy, scholarship, and the graduate and undergraduate curricula. (RS)

Examines (in the context of how English programs have been or should be changed) the assumption that intellectual life has become structured around issues. (RS)

Describes a qualitative investigation utilizing midcareer doctoral students designed to examine what experiences contribute to developing counselor effectiveness. Proposes a cyclical model of counselor development named Becoming Empowered. Process includes recurring themes of experiencing and responding to dissonance, relating to supervision, and…

Shares reflections on internship in multicultural counseling training program and provides potential trainees with vicarious experience of these challenges in multicultural counseling: addressing fears involved in crossing cultural boundaries; learning about and working with ethnic-minority groups; developing culturally appropriate counseling…

Reviews literature on multicultural counselor education. Reviews counselor training models from social-organizational and counseling psychology in terms of their focus on sensitizing counselors to cultural differences. Recommends that counselor training programs place more emphasis on assessment of counselors' cultural values and attitudes, the…

Conducted series of investigations to assess the impact of a comprehensive multicultural training model among different groups of graduate students. Preliminary results indicated that future counselors perceived their multicultural counseling training to be beneficial regardless of their cultural background or diversity in their geographical…

Describes College Library and Research Center research library and computer center located at maximum-security prison. Explains that center provides graduate students with library resources and computer facilities needed to complete thesis projects and other sociological research. Benefits described include improvements in quality of educational…

Offers advice to graduate departments on how to inform graduate students about their programs. (Author/VWL)

Self Directed Learning Readiness Scale and a wellness measure were completed by 185 graduate students. Creativity significantly correlated with wellness; intellectual wellness and spirituality/values correlated with self-directed learning. Self-directed learners appear to feel strongly about creative expression, and creative pursuits have the…

Presents steps to help adult-education graduate students become socialized to the profession: exposure to the literature base, acquisition of an ideology, internalization of motives, and commitment to uphold professional values. Outlines course objectives, assignments, and meetings focused on assisting the formation of occupational identity. (SK)

A survey of 47 public-administration doctoral programs identified ways they can train more productive researchers. Important factors are engaging students in structured research experiences, providing students with adequate financial support, and employing productive faculty members. (JOW)

College counseling centers can provide excellent training programs for graduate students. Given declining budgets and increased demands for services, counseling centers must examine the cost-effectiveness of training. Based on the experience of one center, the number of service hours provided by trainees is substantially greater than the number of…

Investigated the relationship between academic procrastination due to fear of failure and task aversiveness, and library anxiety at the graduate level. Results of the Library Anxiety Scale, Procrastination Assessment Scale-Students, and Pearson product-moment correlations showed procrastination was related to affective barriers, comfort with the…

Describes a one-week retreat in the mountains sponsored by the University of Georgia for doctoral students beginning or working to complete their dissertations. Students report satisfaction with the freedom from distractions and the support provided by other students. (DB)

Surveyed graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to determine the frequency of their supervision, their preferences for supervisory style, and how those preferences conformed to theoretical expectations within a comprehensive developmental model. Most GTAs received supervision, but the frequency of supervision was often inadequate. They preferred a…