Presents a case study that depicts an African American student's experience in her graduate program, as described to a career counselor. Applies the ecological model of career development to the case and presents proposed intervention for counseling, as well as issues that may arise during counseling. (GCP)

Examines the independent and/or combined effects of doctoral students' gender, age, ethnicity, and marital, academic and enrollment status on their coping abilities. The Hope Index scale was administered to 140 randomly selected doctoral students. Results reveal that gender and age had a combination effect on the coping abilities of doctoral…

Suggests that when applying for graduate school, students should begin with careful research, including talking with faculty members and counselors at their undergraduate institutions; then speak to faculty members and students at the schools under serious consideration. Discusses the degree program and the expectations. Considers employment and…

Presents guidelines regarding graduate student recruitment and application, advising and course work, standards for teaching and other professional experience, and grievances. (SG)

Describes a program evaluation model that was developed over three semesters of teaching an introductory graduate-level course in program evaluation. The framework uses a systems approach that emphasizes its sequenced methodology and the significant of monitoring work through feedback loops in an ongoing revision process. (Author/SLD)

Graduate art therapy students enrolled in a multicultural art therapy course were given the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure as a pretest and posttest to assess their own cultural identity. Results indicate that stronger cultural identification is possible following the completion of one multicultural art therapy course. (Contains 25 references…

Examined unionization trends and outcomes among graduate students: where and why they have organized and whether unionization has affected student-mentor relationships. Uncovered several implications for institutional and departmental autonomy, student-mentor relationships, and labor relations outcomes. (EV)

Attempts to provide a preliminary suicide postvention model for a faculty suicide in a counseling department. Looks at presuicide dynamics within the department and at postsuicide reactions of faculty, administration, and students. Explains need for a postvention policy. (Author/NB)

Examined level of mental health of 180 graduate counselor trainees. Gathered multidimensional mental health information using seven clinical scales of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale, Life Style Personality Inventory, and Coping Resources Inventory for Stress. Trainees…

Investigated personality characteristics of practicing rehabilitation counselors (n=56) and graduate counseling students (n=121). Identified personality styles as Modest, Patient, Sympathetic, Affiliating, Regulating, and Amicable. Found rehabilitation counselors significantly stronger in being team players, and handling job roles/functions…

Examined attitudes of beginning rehabilitation counseling graduate students (n=80) toward persons with disabilities and relationship of their attitudes to self-esteem and prior exposure to persons with disabilities. Found positive relationship between self-esteem and attitudes toward persons with disabilities but no relationship between prior…

Offers 100 suggestions for implementing a resolution of the 1987 Laramie, Wyoming meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Proposes ways in which students, composition instructors, part-time faculty, teaching assistants, administrators, department heads, deans, professional organizations, and editors of professional…

Three studies compared self-instructional training with classroom-oriented, traditional approach to skills training for teaching basic counseling skills to graduate student counselor trainees. Results of three studies revealed that two instructional methods were equally effective methods of teaching such skills to this population of students.…

Examines the extent to which demographic, academic, and attitudinal factors predict the teaching practice and course performance of British postgraduate students. Finds that commitment to teaching was a strong predictor of job status among students nine months after completing a Postgraduate Certificate of Education course. (KO)

The effect of 3 item arrangements (easy to hard, hard to easy, and random) on test anxiety was studied using an actual classroom examination administered to 126 graduate students (36 males and 90 females) under power conditions. Results indicate that anxiety level and test item arrangement are related. (TJH)