Reviews recent studies on new faculty and on graduate students aspiring to a faculty career, documenting deficiencies in graduate education and the need for better bridges between doctoral preparation and the actual work of faculty. (EV)

Explores whether graduate education adequately prepares doctoral students for the varied responsibilities of the professoriate they plan to enter, and what role other kinds of institutions (such as community and liberal arts colleges) and the Preparing Future Faculty program could play in the education of graduate students for the professoriate.…

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 educators need to consider more explicitly the connections of knowledge and stance so that they can better understand doctoral education and the reproduction of composition studies as oriented to the world ethically and normatively as well as cognitively. Outlines tensions in political theory between liberalism and communitarianism.…

The survey of 565 doctoral students at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) found that doctoral students who had experienced a close working relationship with a faculty member had a fuller education than their counterpoints who had not. There was no evidence that males were more likely to be mentored than females. (Author/DB)

Suggests that psychology has an obligation to help achieve healthy work environments. This will require the development of a new doctoral-level specialty that combines the perspective of health psychology with those of occupational health and public health. The new field might be called occupational health psychology. (EVL)

Describes the types and characteristics of doctoral programs in the practical arts and vocational-technical education and the characteristics of the students and faculty who partake in them. Identifies several aspects of the programs that should be examined through further research and speculates on future shortages of qualified faculty. (JOW)

Eight essays regarding the debate over establishment of the doctoral degree as a requirement for entry-level school psychologists are presented. Critical issues facing the National Association of School Psychologists and the American Psychological Association are considered. (TJH)

Responds to view expressed by Wittmer in previous article concerning doctoral programs in counselor education seeking accreditation review by Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs rather than by the American Psychological Association. Asserts no single response to affiliation-accreditation issue will suit all…

Highlights purpose, membership, services, publications, conferences, and activities of seven professional associations in the field of educational media and technology. The Ph.D. program in educational technology at the University of Northern Colorado is also described. (SLW)

Responses from 197 of 402 industrial/technical teacher educators yielded agreement on a common core of professional behaviors. Faculty from doctoral-granting institutions value research and publication more highly; faculty from nondoctoral-granting institutes were more optimistic about the future of the field. Associate professors differed from…

Eager to resolve a 30-year debate over the number, standards, length, and title of pharmacy degree programs, 3 of the largest pharmacy professional associations have released a joint statement calling for a new doctorate as the sole entry-level degree for pharmacists. An association of retail community pharmacies strongly opposes the move. (MSE)

Presents a case study describing how one nursing doctoral program faculty has identified, organized, and taught the disciplinary knowledge component of the program. Deals with the fit of this curricular component with other components and raises issues related to its implementation. (Author)

Conducted nationwide survey to compare graduates of doctoral programs in counselor education (CE, n=135) and in counseling psychology (CP, n=121). The findings suggest that great similarities exist between CE and CP doctoral graduates in terms of sex, type of master's education, rate of current employment, professional participation, income, and…

Describes the new graduate English program at the University of New York, Albany, and its aims. Explains that the program is composed of seven independent areas of study: writing in history; writing theory and practice; rhetoric and composition; critical theory and practice; teaching theory and practice; language and language theory; and literary…