The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Graduate Education Initiative (GEI) provided funding to 54 departments in the humanities and related social sciences during the 1990s to improve their PhD programs. This article estimates the aspects of PhD programs the GEI influenced and how these aspects influenced attrition and graduation probabilities. It uses…

Based on the belief that UHF improvement is both possible and necessary, public television and commercial UHF broadcasters are getting together to work on it. (Author)

The special projects for improvement in nurse training listed here were funded by the Division of Nursing for the period June 1965 to June 1978. The list is arranged alphabetically by state, city, institution, and project. Each entry includes the following: grant code number, project period, institution name and address, project title, project…

This review of a research institute's evaluation of the national Follow Through program asserts that both the contracting office and the research institute failed to adequately specify the kind of study intended and the functions which it proposed to serve. One of several kinds of evaluation studies might have been undertaken: (1) a research…

A panel was formed for the purpose of evaluating those attributes of instructional film and instructional television programs which affect learning behavior. This is the fourth of a series of general, special, and varied reports of a project whose aim is to examine the "Conditions, Requirements, and Variables Affecting the Quality of Complex…

This document reports on the activities of educational consultants involved in the appraisal of the Evaluator Development Program. Included are (1) consultant suggestions for program improvement, (2) a tabulation of consultant responses to task items on the consultant form, (3) a list of consultants, and (4) materials used during the evaluation…

Physical educators send the message that learning is for the classroom, while activity is for the gymnasium. Knowledge about sport, exercise, and movement can be uniquely and appropriately disseminated in the gym. Physical education can blend learning with doing, theory with practice, education with experience, and reflection with action. (MT)

Describes results of a questionnaire asking the following questions: Do the perceptions of good pay but unpleasant work persist among accountants after they have completed their undergraduate work? What types of undergraduate accounting courses are considered by practicing accountants and accounting graduate students to be helpful? What…

Presents brief biographies of two men involved in prison reform: Thomas Mott Osborne (who allowed convicts to manage democratically every aspect of prison activity) and Austin MacCormick (founder of the Correctional Education Association and the Journal of Correctional Education). (CT)

The author urges human resource professionals to think and act strategically to market themselves more effectively. The following elements of such a strategy are discussed: operating philosophy, stakeholders' expectations, departmental capability, program profiling, the grand strategy, critical success factors, impact elements, strategic…

Calls for the revitalization and reform of developmental studies programs in postsecondary education. Compares practices of the 1960s and 1970s with those needed in the 1980s. Cites recommendations of the Dallas County Community College District's Developmental Studies Task Force for reaffirmation and commitment to developmental education. (DMM)

The perception of the senior year as a wasted year is a symptom of the disconnect between American public schools and what follows, whether postsecondary education or employment. Students may encounter four different sets of requirements to graduate from high school, to be admitted to college, to enroll in nonremedial college courses for credit,…