Graduate study has long been important for professional development in adult and continuing education. The use of a variety of strategies can make this a highly proactive approach to such development. (Author)

Nursing information specialists perform such roles as user liaison, information systems installer, systems analyst, coordinator of patient care systems, and knowledge engineer. A survey of 97 informatics specialists shows that the majority work in hospitals, 67% have training in information systems, and 63% have master's degrees. (SK)

Explores the application of counseling principles to teaching. These include establishing a relationship, using group skills, recognizing transference, and managing countertransference. (Author)

Describes how a graduate student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln uses his distance education courses to improve production on his family's farm. (EV)

Provides a directory of 136 assistantships in college unions and student activities from 47 schools. The first section is a tabular listing allowing comparison of assistantships. Information in this section is grouped by Association of College Unions International regions (a map delineating the regions is provided). The second section is a…

Gives black scholar Thomas Sowell's personal account of his journey from Howard University, a historically black college that provided him with what he perceived to be a mediocre education, to Harvard University, which challenged him intellectually and socially. He attended Columbia University to study for his master's degree, then moved on to…

Middle managers taking postgraduate courses identified the extent to which learning organization principles were practiced in their organizations. The process used indicates a role higher education can play in introducing learning organization concepts in graduate study. (Contains 42 references.) (SK)

Evaluated a peer review process in a graduate instructional design course. Discusses influences on the effectiveness of peer review and proposes peer review as an authentic and efficient means to introduce graduate students to the strategic knowledge needed to apply instructional design skills. (Author/LRW)

Looks at graduate programs in career and technical education that offer innovative ideas that can boost enrollment while maintaining or improving the academic experience for students. (JOW)

This paper focuses on the design and implementation of Gerontology: Synthesis and Action, the capstone seminar for the undergraduate and graduate certificate in gerontology program at Marylhurst University, a small, private liberal arts university in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. The institutional and programmatic context in which this…

This mixed-method study explores the variables that teachers consider when deciding to remain at or leave their schools, with a specific focus on how teachers consider an incentive program. Research has repeatedly demonstrated that schools serving high concentrations of low-performing, non-White, and low socioeconomically situated students have…

This research project investigated graduate faculty members' perceptions of online teaching. The participants were five graduate faculty members from a religious graduate school located in the mid-south. The project was a qualitative study guided by the phenomenological framework. The methods used to gather data were individual interviews and a…

Social work educators have few guidelines to help them evaluate master's of social work applicants with criminal records. This study surveyed 280 field supervisors and asked them to rate their likelihood of rejecting a student with a criminal record depending on crime type and mitigating factors. Results found that supervisors' perception of risk…

Postsecondary education is a primary goal for the majority of high school students with transition plans, according to the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2. However, according to that same study, only about 3 in 10 young adults with disabilities have taken postsecondary education classes since high school. And among those with the lowest…

As American society becomes increasingly diverse, it is paramount that university graduate programs produce culturally responsive leaders capable of synergistically energizing an increasingly heterogeneous work force. Inherent in this charge is the egalitarian approach to graduate program design. Culturally responsive leadership development is…