For the American Council on Education's 51st meeting, the theme "The Future Academic Community" was chosen. The opinions and ratings of five groups of educational leaders were sought on the probability and desirability of a set of hypothetical events, conditions, or developments in 1968-78. The groups whose responses were solicited included…

The Internships in Public Policy program, funded by the National Science Foundation and administered by the Massachusetts Internship Office, was a pilot project designed to test whether the emerging professional talents of graduate students in the social science and law can be effectively harnessed to state government operations. Twelve graduate…

This monograph consists of 12 short articles written by students enrolled in a basic course in elementary school administration at Indiana State University. The monograph is intended to provide some insight as to what future elementary administrators believe is important in administering an elementary school. Each article focuses on a slightly…

Member institutions of the Council of Graduate Schools were asked to respond to a questionnaire about the foreign language requirements at their institutions. Institutions (197) or 69 percent of those contacted responded. One hundred twenty-four schools used the Graduate Schools Foreign Language Tests (GSFLT) for the purpose of meeting the foreign…

This report examines sex discrimination in 15 departments in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Maryland. Of these departments, 9 had no women who were full professors, four had one with that rank, one department had two and one, three. All of these departments had admitted at least 24% women among their graduate students for…

Chapter 1 discusses the general characteristics of the Teaching Assistant (TA) system: popular interest in the problems of TAs, origins and shortcomings of the TA system, the purpose of doctoral training, the Ph.D. "stretchout," and career interests and decisions of doctoral students. Chapter 2 deals with statistical dimensions: relationship of TA…

With the changes in undergraduate education and the growth of community colleges, the concept of the continuous residence requirement for the baccalaureate degree may be going out of style. There is also increasing demand for changes in residence requirements at the master's level, because many of those pursuing this degree hold full-time jobs.…

There are three kinds of master's degrees in the natural sciences: (1) the booby prize, for students who during their graduate career are disqualified for academic reasons from continuing to the Ph.D.; (2) the automatic degree with no thesis requirement and generally awarded after accumulating a certain number of credits; and (3) the degree that…

This study explores the relationship of ego-stage development (based on the theories of Erik Erikson and roughly defined as psychological maturity) to experiences which a group of adults identified as leading to re-creation for them. The author believes that re-creation -- defined as a feeling of heightened well-being or a sense of renewal and…

Although the task of preparing graduate assistants to be teachers is widely neglected, some universities are making an effort to make the apprenticeship a worthwhile experience for both teachers and their students. This report identifies some of the critical problems and issues associated with graduate student instruction and presents examples of…

College Teaching today is in many ways a primitive profession, for there are no standards to insure that only qualified practitioners enter the "guild." The prevailing stereotypes give the impression that only those with certain formal credentials are qualified as teachers. Teachers should be selected on the basis of natural…

An imaginary consultant (with some resemblance to the author), makes a survey of graduate student-faculty relations and their views of their decision-making roles. The results of the survey are intended to guide deans of graduate schools in emerging institutions in working out suitable roles for graduate students in academic decision making. Based…

This paper describes a contract approach to teaching a graduate course in educational psychology at Kent State University. The instructor, operating from a set of four premises, offered students a choice of differentially weighted project tasks, with specific criteria, which must total a minimum of 50 points. Options included a film critique (5…

This survey, undertaken at the request of the National Science Foundation, was conducted in an attempt to obtain current data on compensation practices for graduate research assistants, and to determine variations among departments and types of institutions. Questions were directed toward policies governing compensation rates and ranges of…

This report proposes a career typology as a method to evaluate teacher education programs. To test the viability of this approach, University of Minnesota graduate students majoring in elementary education were studied in terms of their declared career orientations. This investigation indicates that the graduate program in elementary education was…