The average Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test scores of test-takers who had their scores sent to 57 history and 60 chemistry departments in 1972-73 ("scores senders") are compared with the average Aptitude Test scores of first-year students who enrolled in these departments in the fall of 1973 ("enrolled…

Proceedings are presented of the first conference on graduate vocational education. Papers read at that conference discuss the following topics: (1) The Quest for Quality--Guidelines for the Search; (2) Motivation for the Search for Quality in Graduate Vocational Education; (3) Dimensions of Quality--The Student's View; (4) Dimensions of…

THE INITIATION OF A GRADUATE PROGRAM IN LINGUISTICS AT OHIO UNIVERSITY (ATHENS, OHIO), WHERE NO UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM EXISTED, NECESSITATED THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF A VALID RECOMMENDED READING LIST OF STANDARD WORKS FOR STUDENTS IN THE NEW PROGRAM. COMBINED TO PRODUCE A COMPOSITE GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR LINGUISTICS WERE THE ITEMS THAT APPEARED ON…

THIS DOCUMENT IS AN INTERIM REPORT OF A 1967 SEMINAR HELD AT WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. THE GOAL OF THE SEMINAR WAS TO PREPARE A SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSAL FOR FIELD RESEARCH CONCERNED WITH THE CULTURE AND STRUCTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS IT IS NOW DEVELOPING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. (HM)

A BENGALI READER HAS BEEN PREPARED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO'S TEACHING PROGRAM. THE MATERIALS PRESENTED CONSTITUTE A PART OF THE TRAINING FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS IN THE LANGUAGE, AND HAVE BEEN SELECTED FROM WRITINGS IN SEVERAL BRANCHES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES. SELECTIONS ARE AIMED AT SATISFYING THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS INTERESTED IN…

Concern is expressed for the limited attention focused on the professional preparation of teacher educators. Notice is taken that many emerge in such roles in the absence of formal preparation. A model designed to begin the development of a program for the professional preparation of teacher educators discusses: 1) the implementation of a minor or…

AS PART OF A THREE-PART PROJECT TO INCLUDE (1) A REVIEW OF BIBLIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NEARBY LIBRARIES, (2) A SAMPLE SURVEY OF EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ORGANIZED AND OPERATED BY INDUSTRY, AND (3) A REVIEW OF EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ORGANIZED AND OPERATED BY UNIVERSITIES FOR MARKETING TO…

In 1968, 75% of the 5,466 graduates of hospital administration were in management positions in hospitals and related institutions, and about 1,000 to 1,500 held key government jobs. The US needs approximately 40,000 trained hospital administrators, but the total graduate output is about one-eighth of that amount. Of the 23 existing programs, 8 are…

A Management Foundations course offered over the University of Wisconsin Statewide Extension Education Network (SEEN) was delivered via two-way audio and one-way visual transmission to receiving stations throughout the state. With one instructor, 48 graduate students all over the state were able to enroll in the course, making the cost of SEEN…

In 1971, the South Dakota Regents of Education adopted a resolution that stated that all graduate programs at South Dakota State University, the University of South Dakota, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Northern State College, and Black Hills State College be rejustified to the Regents. If such programs could not be rejustified,…

This study of the nature of the philosophical beliefs of graduate and undergraduate teacher education students compares secondary and elementary undergraduates, as well as secondary and elementary graduates, as to ontology, epistemology, and axiology. The Ames Philosophical Belief Inventory was administered to 454 students in attendance of classes…

This study investigates the intellectual and subjective subscription of philosophy of education students to four philosophies of education and whether the strength of subscription changes as a result of exposure to an appropriate level course in which these philosophies are discussed. Sixty-three graduate and 63 undergraduate students were pre-…

Professional socialization in this paper refers to the process by which neophytes are initiated into the norms and values governing professional and academic disciplines in graduate school by professional gate-keepers. The first part of the paper shows very large differences in the effectiveness of professional socialization by sex, and across…

This report presents some statistical data on black graduate student applicants. Twenty-five major graduate schools were requested to supply information on the number of identifiable black applicants by field; 11 were able to supply the data. They were: Berkeley, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Minnesota, MIT, Syracuse, University of…

In the summer and fall of 1969, a questionnaire prepared by the American Council on Education was administered to freshmen at the University of South Carolina (USC) and 270 other institutions of higher education. This report is one of a series drawn from analyses of these data and focuses on the item "highest degree planned." The data…