This paper, as the title suggests, presents a discussion of the dangers and possibilities of the external degree. There are 8 major dangers that widespread offering of external degrees might precipitate: (1) the deterioration of standards rather than quality education; (2) a proliferation of degrees that might debase the degree; (3) the use of the…

A teacher education program linking a three-year Bachelor of Education degree with a four-year honors course is described. (JD)

Analysis of the data suggests that program characteristics such as length, stability, and analytic orientation appear to affect the predictive validity of admission criteria to doctoral programs. Also, high-ability older students in this sample were more likely to complete the doctorate than their younger peers. (Author)

After nearly four years of debate, the Harvard University faculty voted, 182 to 65, to accept a proposal championed by Dean Henry Rosovsky that will result in a major overhaul of undergraduate academic requirements. Students at Luther Burbank Junior High School join together to stop their own vandalism and launch an all-out blitz to earn a…

Outlines procedures and assumptions for instituting a doctoral program in business communication. Lists general/specific requirements for enrollment, and suggests business-core and interdepartmental curricula. (RL)

One hundred and five business majors at a university responded to a questionnaire measuring their anxiety level toward computers and attitude toward their mandatory use in higher education. Perceived educational benefits and financial concern are the two most important factors affecting attitudes. (SK)

Reports on many news items of importance to the scientist and educator. These include a new Engineering degree, building a biological culture analyser, remote satellite sensing in geologic exploration, and others. (GS)

Asserts the advantage of employing the PsyD degree both affirmatively, as a certificate of professional competence in psychology, and restrictively, to exclude inadequately trained people from the practice of professional psychology. (Author)

The validity of the degree system in higher education is examined, and reasons for the system are probed with the help of an imaginary interlocutor. Contradictory values are shown to be inherent in the spirit of inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge, and the spirit of competition and pursuit of success. The role of grading is addressed. (LBH)

Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) was established as an autonomous state university in 1969, with the merger of the Indiana University and Purdue University branch campuses in Indianapolis. There are 19 schools providing graduate education on the campus, including Liberal Arts, in which communication studies is situated.…

This book intends to make the contents of the standards in the eight liberal-arts subjects more accessible to teachers, parents, and the general public. Content standards identify what students are expected to know and be able to do and can provide a way to identify the knowledge and skills that society wants young people to possess. The volume is…

A paper read in February 1972 at the National Conference on Graduate Studies in English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. (RB)

Attempts to determine if permissiveness has resulted in campus unrest and other problems facing higher education. (DS)