Presents findings of a survey which gathered information on criteria applied by British employers in the library and information science sector when appointing staff and seeks to establish the relative importance of various educational qualifications and other characteristics such as personality, age, and work experience. The survey questionnaire…

Traces the development of biochemistry curriculum in the universities of India. Describes the biochemistry courses offered at the graduate level at Baroda University. Discusses governmental actions to improve biochemical education in India, including the establishment of the Curriculum Development Center at Baroda. (TW)

Describes the development of the graduate program at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse. Provides a student profile and outlines a new masters curriculum in environmental science. Explains the terminal options involving research, internship, and academic coursework. (TW)

Many academic administrators consider the future job market "a golden opportunity" for universities to increase the representation of women on their faculties. However, lingering sexual bias in hiring and promotion decisions, as well as a shortage of women with doctorates in scientific fields, may cloud that promise. (MLW)

Describes the biochemical engineering and industrial biotechnology programs of the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). Provides descriptions of graduate courses, along with a sample of current research activities. Includes a discussion of the programs' mechanisms for technology transfer. (TW)

A national survey examined the extent of offerings of courses on the uses of computers in instruction by education faculties. Results showed extensive offerings in both undergraduate and graduate programs, but considerable diversity in content and sequence and no consistency in requirements for computer-related experience before certification.…

A survey of methods for achieving tenure in nursing schools is discussed in the context of: nursing's beginnings in higher education, nursing's terminal degree, development of scholars in other fields, faculty handbooks, the meaning of tenure, tenure criteria, the need to reexamine practices, and doctoral dissertation preparation. (MSE)

A survey of business executives and business administration faculty and alumni concerning their attitudes toward curricula and graduates of master's programs in business administration is presented. An unexpected finding was overall agreement between academicians and business executives. Areas of disagreement included graduates' oral and written…

This study utilized teaching cases as an assessment tool in measuring student teachers' dispositions, collecting data from online courses. It examined student behaviors during online analyses of a case study that revealed culturally sensitive dispositions, noting whether there were factors in those analyses that could be identified and used to…

This book includes the following chapters: "Literacy and Advanced Foreign Language Learning: Rethinking he Curriculum" (Richard G. Kern); "A Template for Advanced Learner Tasks: Staging Genre Reading and Cultural Literacy Through the Precis" (Janet Swaffar); "Fostering Advanced L2 Literacy: A Genre-Based, Cognitive…

The academic success of international students who are admitted to Marshall University's career and technical education (CTE) and other selected graduate degree programs was examined. The academic success of students who were admitted to Marshall based on their Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores was compared to that students who…

This booklet offers a brief history of teacher lore, examines its theoretical bases, and summarizes its professional value, discussing how preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and others can use teacher lore for professional development. Teacher lore, or teacher narrative, includes fiction and nonfiction, oral storytelling, print, film,…

This paper presents part of the results of a completed study entitled "A Longitudinal Study of Minority Ph.D.s from 1980-1990: Progress and Outcomes in Science and Engineering at the University of California during Graduate School and Professional Life." It focuses particularly on the graduate school experience and degree of preparation…

This study examined factors predicting the enrollment of men and women in science, math, and engineering (SME) graduate programs among those who had earned SME Bachelor's degrees. The data, which covered a 9-year period: 1985, 1989 (4-year follow-up), and 1994 (9-year follow-up), was drawn from the Cooperative Institutional Research program, a…

This study evaluated strategies to encourage interaction in a distance education setting, specifically a Ball State University (Indiana) distance graduate-level course in Elementary School Curriculum which utilized the World Wide Web and a "Class Page." Participants were primarily elementary school teachers (47 graduate students) who…