Provides data from 218 institutions on number of faculty and undergraduate students; degree requirements; faculty, enrollment, and degrees granted; appointments made to graduate students; research areas; personnel engaged in separately budgeted research; and research expenditures. Indexes to fields of graduate study and areas of research are…

The functions of Australian higher education institutions are examined in terms of the knowledge and skill needs of each sector. A new evaluation technique that clarifies the complexity of student thinking required at each level is applied to the programs, producing a rationale for admission and degree structure. (MSE)

The emergence of undergraduate majors in America is reviewed, and a survey of administrative attitudes on undergraduate majors is discussed. Today's academic departments control majors entirely by determining how many courses will constitute their major, what these courses will be, and in what order they will be taken. (MLW)

The university aims to define what it means to be a well-educated person and a responsible citizen both of the university and of the broader social and political world. A definition of the idea of a university and an analysis of the role and function of "general education" in a modern university are provided.(MLW)

It is suggested that graduate schools continue to disregard the characteristics and needs of their students, and that reform in the direction of flexibility is needed. Proposals are made regarding self-determination of graduate program, student course initiation, student involvement in planning course structure, evaluation of the educational…

An experiment designed to train engineering students to two levels of achievement in three-year and five-year programs within a single institution is reported. Organizational and curricular problems created by such integrated schemes are examined. (Author/LBH)

Described is a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), doctoral degree program providing students with a broad field of training in numerous science areas relating to the environment to produce an environmental counseling specialists. The program includes a required internship. (SL)

The scientist-practitioner model indicates graduate education must focus on application in addition to theory. Although a number of approaches may be utilized to gain applied experience for students, this paper focuses on applied projects completed as a requirement of a graduate course. Finding host organizations for class projects presents unique…

Through site visits to the agricultural programs at five of the Kentucky state universities (University of Kentucky, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, and Western Kentucky University) and a meeting with representatives of the program at Eastern Kentucky University, this guide was created which describes…

Summaries of selected studies, present a rationale for the development of work-experience, competency-based college degree programs in industrial education. (SN)

Discusses a program which will effectively allow Air Force personnel to transfer their training and educational experience from military school to schools that will satisfy external degree requirements. (RK)

Describes the failure of a 10-year initial attempt at innovation, the change-oriented activisim on the part of students who felt that the innovative features retained too much of the traditional hangups and incorporated too little relevance, the steps taken to remedy the situation, and the resultant newer'' program of innovation at one college of…