Paper prepared for the International Association of University Professors of English, Dublin, August 19-24, 1968.

This paper presents ideas on ways to help graduate students in political science to become more marketable for nonacademic positions. It also includes background information on the changing employment market for Ph.D.'s. These ideas were discussed at a 1980 meeting of teachers, graduate students, and recent Ph.D.'s at MIT. The purpose of the…

To explore the utility of decision seminars as instructional tools in educational administration training, researchers observed two one-quarter graduate courses in educational administration at Ohio State University. In the courses--one with 13 students, the other with 18--the decision seminar was used as an instructional framework within which…

A do-it-yourself laboratory course in automated systems designed at the University of Florida is described. Using a working model of a warehouse interfaced with a minicomputer as a working laboratory, the student gains hands-on experience in operations programing and applications of scheduling, materials handling, and heuristic optimization. (BT)

An inservice program for doctoral composition specialists should train the teaching fellow to teach composition at a variety of levels, to administer writing programs, and to supervise writing clinics. It should also encourage teaching fellows to recognize the study and teaching of composition as fertile areas for research and scholarship and it…

This directory of programs updates earlier studies and provides a comprehensive source for persons interested in instructional technology careers. Sixty-one institutions responded to surveys which were sent to the president of each state instructional technology association affiliated with AECT, each program identified in the 1969-71 study, and…

The results of a survey of publicly-supported colleges offering master's degrees to determine the most typical requirements for such degrees are reported. Results indicate that a typical master's degree program is one that: (1) does not require students to fulfill a full-time-student residency requirement; (2) requires that students complete…

The annual Survey of Enrollments and Degrees includes 820 degree-granting physics and astronomy departments, 31 of which grant both physics and astronomy degrees. Data are presented on the following areas: physics degrees awarded by academic year, 1968-78; number of institutions by highest physics degree offered, 1974-79; physics enrollments and…

This inventory provides information about development communication training programs for students from developing countries in Master's or Ph.D. programs or short-term non-degree training. A demand is anticipated for training specialists in different sectors--agriculture, education, health, nutrition, and population--in the use of communication…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO EXAMINE (1) THE STATUS OF CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONAL PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES IN GRADUATE PROGRAMS OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS EDUCATION, (2) THE EXTENT TO WHICH SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL, RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND ADMINISTRATION COMPETENCIES ARE DEVELOPED AMONG GRADUATE STUDENTS, AND (3) THE PROVISION FOR GENERAL LIBERAL EDUCATION…