The social responsibilities of a professional department or school are to turn out technically competent practitioners and to turn out men and women of broad learning and culture who will join the leadership of the society and will exert a constructive influence in community and civic life. (MLW)

Poison Control Centers are being utilized by more schools of pharmacy each year as training sites for students. This paper discusses what such a center is, its services, changes anticipated in the poison center system in the next several years and how they may influence pharmacy education, specifically as it relates to clinical toxicology.…

This research project sought to develop a measure to examine the family-centered beliefs, skills, work systems, and work practices of early childhood intervention, (ECI) and early childhood education (ECE) graduate students. The study was guided by four research questions: (1) To what extent do graduate students from preservice preparation…

This publication offers an overview of the state of diversity in graduate education and considers the racial and ethnic makeup of the nation's faculty. It then offers recommendations for how to improve graduate education of students of color. The monograph is designed to help faculty, administrators and policy makers by offering strategies that…

Using data from the 2003 "Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study" ("B&B:93/03"), this report provides an overview of the status of 1992-93 college graduates 10 years after graduation. The report presents highlights of these college graduates' lives in 2003 in five areas: (1) education after the bachelor's degree; (2)…

This paper compares two school counselor education programs in two different institutions from two different countries: Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey and The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA. Each program represents a different stage of counselor education professional development. The UNC-Charlotte program is…

This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a 5-year project at the University of San Francisco (California) to recruit and train minority and bilingual paraeducators (instructional assistants and teacher aides) and noncertified substitute teachers to receive a special education (mild-moderate) credential and master's degree with…

This paper summarizes the experiences of an instructor and teaching assistant who introduced online communication strategies in a graduate seminar. This paper drew on the findings of a previous paper (Schwier & Balbar, 2002), and examined how to construct structured discussions of content using synchronous and asynchronous communication in…

This final report describes accomplishments and activities of a 3-year federally funded project of the University of Maine to develop and deliver a graduate Master's degree program in early intervention for infants and young children with low incidence disabilities. A curriculum was designed to prepare professionals to provide culturally relevant,…

This paper presents some reflections on race and constructions of race as they operate and might operate on graduate programs in educational administration. An African American female graduate student at a large Texas university was asked to reflect on a set of questions prior to participating in a symposium on race in educational administration…

The teaching-learning process for counselors-in-training can be maximized through the use of multifaceted assessments. Extensive research shows the efficacy of involving students in making decisions about their own learning and assessment. The Jacksonville State University counselor education program is used to exemplify how assessment results can…

I present a theoretical distinction that may prove useful in conceptualizing mathematics teacher education (and graduate education) and research on mathematics teacher education. Further, the distinction can contribute to developing frameworks on the design of mathematics curricula. The distinction between empirical activity and…

The important issue of special education services is the special education teacher who have been trained on instruction strategies for children with special needs. Special education teachers have been trained in short term in-service education programs and certificate programs in Turkey until 1983, after 1983 special education teachers are being…

The history of the Bowie State University School of Education is traced from very humble beginnings in 1865 with its formation to provide teachers for Freedmen following the Civil War to a School of Education in a comprehensive university. Maryland Archives, student publications, college catalogues, legislative and other records were searched to…

Women and mathematics have been thought of as two totally separate subjects for decades. In July, 1994 a group of mathematicians from around the country gathered in Berkeley, CA for three days to discuss ways to increase the representation of women in Ph.D. programs in the mathematical sciences. The primary goal of this conference was to broaden…