Accorded little space and place by universities, academic adult education still made significant inroads in the United States and Canada from 1917 to 1970. The expansion was linked to the growth of higher education and graduate professional programs. (SK)

Explores the role of spirituality in graduate programs and offers suggestions for improving the experience for students in education. (Contains 23 references.) (GCP)

Describes the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA), a collaborative project in distance education that was developed to offer graduate engineering degree programs involving MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Discusses results of student evaluations of the…

Provides an analytic case description of an innovative, problem-based principals preparation program at Stanford University, incorporating views of students, graduates, and faculty. Promising aspects of the program are highlighted. Appendices include annotated lists of core courses and problem-based learning projects. (Contains 36 references.)…

The number of Americans over 65 will more than double, from 34.8 million in 2000 to 70.3 million in 2030. The coming decades will bring about unprecedented demand for social services for the elderly. In this paper we assess the response of the social-work profession to the demand for trained social workers with course work in the broad field of…

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is the most widely used measure of managerial potential in MBA admissions. GMAT scores, although predictive of grades in business school, leave much of the variance in graduate school performance unexplained. The GMAT also produces disparities in test scores between groups, generating the potential for…

The establishment of a national organization and its attendant major journal, historians of science and of higher education maintain, have been crucial in the process of academic professionalization. During the late 1800s a number of professional organizations that exist today (e. g., American Physiological Society; American Psychological…

There is little empirical evidence documenting the development activities of academic units in colleges and universities. This study attempts to bridge the knowledge gap by examining the development practices of graduate schools, which confront special challenges in their efforts to generate private support. Results from a survey of member…

This article presents the author's response to the comments provided by Farkas, Hardy, Williams, and Zipp regarding his article on the teaching of statistics in graduate programs. The author mentions two issues: Conceptually, what are the needs for making changes in the graduate statistics curriculum? And practically, what are the merits of…

A thorough, sophisticated literature review is the foundation and inspiration for substantial, useful research. The complex nature of education research demands such thorough, sophisticated reviews. Although doctoral education is a key means for improving education research, the literature has given short shrift to the dissertation literature…

A structured research team experience can add a great deal to a graduate student's academic and professional training, and it also can support a positive research culture within a department. In this study, we discuss how one department developed and implemented collaborative learning research teams to enhance students' research experiences. We…

This article discusses the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's report, "Diversity and the Ph.D.," released in May, which documents in troubling detail the exact dimensions of what the foundation's president, Dr. Robert Weisbuch, is calling the national "expertise gap." Weisbuch states that the expertise gap extends beyond the…

This article attempts to present the recent trends in the pedagogy, that the managements of higher education have begun to adapt. Of late, more and more Institutions have started making their courseware and resources available online. The next step in this direction for the institutions would be to provide evaluation structure to all its students,…

This paper discusses the role of critical thinking skills in enhancing the decision making process. The application of critical thinking skills is described in the author's decision to return to school and pursue a graduate degree. The discussion highlights the rationale that led the author to select the master's degree in psychology program at…

Research in engineering education over the past 15 years has shown that the interest in pursuing undergraduate degrees in engineering has declined among graduating high school students. A large portion of this engineering education research focuses on factors used to predict the likelihood that a student will successfully complete an undergraduate…