This document comprises a report designed to analyze graduate educational needs in the greater Spokane area. Emphasis was on four broad categories: education, government, business and public affairs. The first chapter describes the characteristics of the Spokane area, the second examines graduate education needs directly, and the third contains…

This survey concerns the enrollment of junior year students in specified areas or fields during the fall of 1972. Its aim was to obtain information about trends in choice of major field in advance of the usual data on baccalaureates granted and thus to assist graduate departments in planning for enrollments in specified areas. Over all fields,…

This document presents a series of tables concerning a 1966 study of the Woodrow Wilson Fellows who entered graduate school from 1958 through 1963. At the time of the study, 49% of the fellows had not yet earned the doctorate, and were no longer in school. Among the men, 44% were defined as dropouts, and among the women, 64% were thus defined.…

The primary motivation behind this prediction study was the concern voiced over the problem of attrition in graduate school. Noting a 45% dropout rate in psychology doctoral students who began between 1955 and 1964 and were studied in 1968, one author deplored the loss in time and effort to students and faculty when students leave graduate school.…

This report is primarily a summary of the results of validity studies carried out by the Educational Testing Service for graduate schools of business during the 3 years of the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business (ATGSB) Validity Study Service. The report covers 69 studies carried out for 67 graduate schools of business in the period from…

This report presents the proceedings of the 1971 annual meeting of the Western Association of Graduate Schools. The first general session of the meeting presented speeches and a discussion of the legal aspects of graduate education. The second session speakers concentrated on the topic of the graduate teaching assistants with regard to training…

This is the report of the 1969 annual conference of the Western Association of Graduate Schools. The first general meeting held at the conference presented 3 speeches by minority students from the area graduate schools. Discussed in these addresses were the problems confronting the American Indian, Mexican American, and black students as students…

Two position papers on graduate programs in adult education are presented. The first clarifies alternative positions which the Ontario Institute faced and illustrates the differences by means of charts. An explanation is given for the choice of a pluralistic rather than a singularistic alternative. The second paper lists alternative starting…

The American University proposes a Ph.D. program in Literary Studies that will: (1) encourage students to exercise initiative and take responsibility for their own learning through intimate contact with faculty members similarly engaged in learning; (2) offer a new approach to the subject matter that will give the students a disciplined…

This volume, a publication of the Speech Communication Association, is divided into six principal sections: (1) Doctoral Dissertations in Speech Communication: Work in Progress, (2) Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations in the Field of Speech Communication, 1969, (3) Graduate Theses and Dissertation Titles: An Index of Graduate Research in Speech…

This monograph is concerned with changes, innovations, and reforms in graduate education in the arts and sciences. It was written as an aid to faculty and administrators who must plan graduate programs in the future. While it does make suggestions and recommendations, it is chiefly intended to raise questions and to suggest ways by which graduate…

During academic year 1969-1970 a survey was conducted at 56 of the 82 master's degree granting colleges and universities in New York State to determine the quality, quantity and type of education being offered in the State. In the smaller colleges and seminaries, data were collected concerning all master's degree programs offered; at the larger…

The University of New Hampshire Department of Education with federal support began in 1969 a tripartite graduate program for the preparation of early childhood specialists. Both experienced and beginning teachers may earn a masters degree while demonstrating theory in the classroom. After a summer of child study, graduate students in teams of two…

Female and male admission rates to four graduate programs at a university were compared over a two year time period to assess possible sex bias in admission procedures. The overall results showed that sex played only a modest role in admission decisions. (Author/DEP)

Lists and describes undergraduate and graduate programs in journalism and mass communications. (RB)