This report, based on the results of the fifth biennial survey of humanities doctorate recipients, describes the demographic and employment characteristics of humanities Ph.D.s who received their degrees between January 1942 and June 1984 and were residing in the United States in February 1985. The number of humanities Ph.D.s in 1985 was estimated…

This paper presents the investigation of the psychometric properties of the Graduate Program Self-Assessment (GPSA) questionnaires, developed by the Educational Testing Service, for the evaluation of nursing doctoral education. The data are from the 1984 cooperative program evaluation from 326 faculty, 659 doctoral students, and 296 alumni. The…

This paper provides a wide range of information related to leadership and development needs in the California community colleges. First, a summary is presented of five studies or activities concerned with community college leadership, including: (1) the work of the Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education; (2) the…

This study analyzes and synthesizes the published information on doctoral programs, dissertations, and graduate students in library and information science in the United States from 1960 to 1980, and identifies those aspects that have been reported in the literature since the publication of the last such study in 1959. Data were gathered by manual…

A survey (fall, 1986) was made of 153 doctoral-granting institutions to determine the extent to which teacher education is a focus of study apart from long-standing areas of study such as curriculum and instruction, special education, and reading. Also included was a section designed to determine what specific topics are studied by students in a…

This document describes a doctoral program in educational administration, offered by Nova University in Fort Lauderdale (Florida), in which the administrator-student remains at his/her job. The description first covers the history of master's and doctor's degrees in U.S. educational administration and explains why Nova's program is oriented toward…

The position of this paper is to further the discussion on what constitutes academic assessment in the PhD by artefact and exegesis. In doing so, it explores some of the ideas that arose in setting up the PhD in creative writing at Swinburne University of Technology. Thus, I: (1) survey some of the questions that arise about the journeys made by…

This speech covers three major topics: (1) the origins of the present day paradigm of professional training in education and the problematics of education as a field of study; (2) the recent history of the doctorate in education; and (3) recommendations on the present day doctorate in education, based on an analysis of the central requirements of…

Using excerpts from various graduate student essays, describes life in graduate school with its learnings, fears and disillusionment. (EJT)

The purpose of this guide is to provide students and teachers with a concise summary of approximately 280 graduate programs in political science at doctoral and masters levels. Information for it was collected during September/October of 1981. The bulk of the guide contains descriptions of individual programs arranged alphabetically by the name of…

The National Ed.D. Program for Educational Leaders at Nova University is a targeted, multi-state, quality-controlled, time and study-intensive, three-year doctoral program. The program is operated both at the university and externally. It has been in operation for five years and has awarded 261 degrees. The program projects its goal as the…

The purposes of this inquiry are to examine the area of community college professional personnel, to question the fitness of the community college instructor to fulfill the promise of the community college, and to assess the availability and quality of college preparation programs. Such topics are examined as new learning programs and practices in…

This report describes the attempts of five university geography departments -- at Clark University and the Universities of Illinois, Iowa, Colorado, and California at Berkeley -- to explore ways for incorporating teaching preparation into the programs of their docutoral students. The Objective of the project was to propagate among geographers the…

For a 1969 report on graduate programs in English, the Association of Departments of English obtained information from chairmen or directors of graduate studies in English at 223 institutions. This document contains some of the information collected for the full report (available through ERIC as "Graduate Programs in English: A 1969…

For a 1969 report on graduate programs in English, the Association of Departments of English obtained information from chairmen or directors of graduate study in English at 223 institutions. This document contains some of the information collected for the full report (available through ERIC as "Graduate Programs in English: A 1969…