Examined the status of teacher preparation programs leading to licensure in broad-field social studies at state regional colleges. Undergraduate bulletins from 30 institutions indicated that 21 offered degree programs leading to licensure in broad-field social studies. All 21 exceeded state minimum requirements but lacked assurances that graduates…

As location becomes less relevant to education choices, the need for a more comprehensive credit articulation policy increases. The Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Distance Learning Policy Laboratory is working to develop a plan that would facilitate credit articulation among the SREB's 16 states. Discussion includes challenges and…

A survey of institutions offering doctoral programs in education found no clear institutional movement toward either Ph.D. or Ed.D. degrees; increasing reluctance by research universities to offer the Ed.D.; increasing likelihood by comprehensive institutions to offer Ed.D. degrees; and similar requirements for both degrees. Three common arguments…

Describes the process used in Connecticut to validate the content of associate nursing degree programs and to articulate them with baccalaureate nursing programs. (SK)

In the last 30 years, our discipline has become increasingly specialized in the training of PhD students. Development of recent initiatives, such as the Preparing Future Faculty program now in place at many doctorate-granting institutions, has focused attention on the need to broaden the education of PhD students. In addition, recent analyses of…

We are universally testing children to see if elementary schools are doing their job. So, too, in high school. Only in college is a person deemed educated merely for having collected enough hours. Open admissions, the absence of a required core, and ubiquitous indoctrination have so devalued those credit hours that today's degree reliably…

The present study examined changes in primary and secondary appraisal, and coping strategies utilized in the final weeks leading to dissertation submission. Sixty volunteer Sports Studies dissertation students (male: n = 29; female: n = 31) completed an adapted Cognitive Appraisal of Health Scale (CAHS: Kessler, 1998), and Brief COPE (Carver,…

This report discusses the role of graduate nurses in public health leadership and the development of new models of graduate education to prepare nurses for public health leadership. It reviews the need for graduate nurses in public health leadership positions, the health needs of the population, the role of public health in a changing health care…

The 1994 Florida State Legislature directed the Postsecondary Education Planning Commission to conduct a review of selected Associate in Science (A.S.) community college programs to determine the effect of program length on student completion rates, licensure passing rates, job placements, average earnings, and performance in further postsecondary…

Questions have been raised about the status of English as a second language (ESL) in colleges and universities, especially with regard to ESL credit, admission of ESL students, and tenure for ESL instructors. These questions prompted Portland State University (Oregon) to send a questionnaire dealing with the topic to the directors of 174 programs…

The project was designed to offer opportunities for part-time study to full-time employed nurses seeking baccalaureate degrees. A major portion of the requirements would be met through independent study programs. Activities involved in carrying out the program are discussed. (EC)

A case is made for greater emphasis in graduate music education on courses that deal with the foundational in such a way that the student begins to understand the underlying force and value of a study of principles, theories, and concepts (e.g. psycho-physiology of music and philosophies and aesthetics in music education). (JT)

Graduate students are socialized by educational institutions to become docile, timid, and conventional. In graduate school, creativity and quality are left unrewarded, while conventionality and quantity are looked upon with favor. The graduate school experience which emphasizes a dissertation supervised by advisors who threaten the student with…

Institutions belonging to the Council of Graduate Schools were surveyed in studies (1970, 1971, 1972, 1974) of the availability of the D.A. degree in mathematics, and attitudes toward this degree. (SD)

In a chart offered as an exploratory tool to help young people and their counselfors pair personal traits and educational qualifications with those usually associated with an occupation or group of occupations, 25 occupational characteristics and requirements are cross-matched with some 280 jobs. (Author/AJ)