The data on which these investigations are based were drawn from the Carnegie Commission's Survey of Faculty and Student Opinion of 1969. The commission received completed questionnaires from 32,963 graduate students, and the authors took a random sample of 2,125 of these. The aim of the research was to examine the ideologies of graduate students,…

This report covers a work-study program in the East-West Gateway area to provide employment and training for minority and economically disadvantaged graduate and upper-division undergraduate students enrolled in planning and related curricula. The program has aided students in continuing their education who might otherwise be financially unable to…

This study investigated the written and oral discourse of a subject with an established reputation as an author, editor, lecturer, and television host, to determine whether his written discourse was more complex syntactically than his spoken discourse. The oral language sample was taken from a taped television program in which the speaker…

The purpose of this study was to determine if the providing of a basic encounter group experience to supervisors has any effects on the supervisees of these supervisors as compared to the supervisees of supervisors who did not have this experience. Twelve advanced graduate students served as the supervisor-trainee subjects. Each supervisor trainee…

The symposium: Women on Campus, 1970, held at Michigan University on October 14, 1970, centered on 3 major topics: "Toward a New Psychology of Women"; "The Case of the Woman Graduate Student"; and "The University and Women." The papers that were presented concerning the first topic included: "Internal Barriers to…

This study of graduate student socialization in Departments of Political Science is based on data collected in 14 departments of broadly representative Ph.D. granting institutions in the U.S. All students and faculty in all departments were sent a questionnaire asking about their attitude toward the profession, their program of study, their…

This is a report of a large scale survey conducted to meet the need for up-to-date information on the sources, types, and amounts of support available to graduate students, on the effects of stipend holding on academic progress and patterns of employment, and on other aspects of graduate education. The report is based on a sample of graduate…

This paper concerns an experiment in teaching a graduate seminar on Information Retrieval using telediscussion techniques. Outstanding persons from Project INTREX, MEDLARS, Chemical Abstracts, the University of Georgia, the SUNY biomedical Network, AEC, NASA, and DDC gave hour-long telelectures. A Conference Telephone Set was used with success.…

This is a statistical study of the growth of graduate enrollments and degree production in the United States during the post-Sputnik era. The purpose of the study is to provide better knowledge of the flow of college graduates through the graduate schools and to assess the effects of such factors as the draft, the G.I. Bills, and federal support…

In the academic year of 1968, a substantial number of the 10,000 graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley dropped out of graduate school. This graduate school attrition caused deep concern for several reasons. Primary reasons for concern are the loss of educated manpower to society and the question of whether graduate school…

This survey concerned first-year graduate enrollments in science and engineering for the fall of 1971 and expected enrollments for the fall of 1972. Each institution was asked to indicate (1) how many new applications it had received through July 5, 1971, and what the actual first-year graduate enrollment for that year had been; and (2) estimate…

The primary objective was to determine whether untrained undergraduate students could become effective as behavior modification consultants to teachers. Students from different undergraduate majors were given 10 weeks of guided experiences in interviewing and program designing. This was followed by field experiences involving actual consultation…

This document presents data concerning graduate admissions at the State University of New York. Individual discussions and tables are offered for admissions on the master's level, doctoral admissions, and first-professional degree admissions. Data are presented for applications received, applications accepted, and students enrolled by the various…

Doctoral dissertations and masters theses produced in 30 Canadian universities and microfilmed by the National Library of Canada are listed. Both French and English theses are included with catalog numbers and price lists. Publication dates for most of the documents fall in the period 1970-1975. Microfilms are available and can be ordered from the…

This study investigated the influence of confederates' verbal evaluation of psychological test data on clinical psychology graduate students' evaluations. Subjects' evaluations on both dependent measures were influenced by the confederates' prior evaluations, especially when the confederate was designated as having higher status. (Author)