The Education Professions Development Act (EDPA) was enacted in 1967 to develop vocational education leaders and to promote graduate vocational education programs to train leaders. The program was discontinued in 1981 and should be reinstituted. Six leadership skill objectives of EDPA graduate programs are offered. (JOW)

Explores challenges to Frederick Herzberg's Two Factor Theory of Motivation--a required concept in many administrator preparation programs. Herzberg used modified critical incident (or self-reporting) techniques to illustrate that job satisfaction and dissatisfaction occupied different continua and were not opposed to each other. Criticisms, study…

Discusses history of first training program in Marriage and Family Counseling (MFC) at Hofstra University established in 1982. Explains context of MFC graduate programs and philosophy and model of MFC programs. Describes Marriage and Family Counseling Club, mentoring program, Marriage and Family Counseling Newsletter, and marriage and family…

Discusses business school guidelines and journalism school guidelines for graduate education. Discusses graduate study in advertising and the advertising core. Outlines suggested changes to the advertising core to make it more attractive to advertising agency executives and to meet the challenges of the future. (SR)

Reveals that, prior to the 1970s, businesses did not hire blacks for managerial positions, but today American businesses are eager for black managers, producing a great increase in black matriculation in the nation's Master's of Business Administration programs. Profiles of blacks who were business school pioneers are presented. (GR)

Describes three graduate distance education programs: the virtual campus of Walden University, the University of Phoenix Online Campus in San Francisco, and the television-based National Technological University. The programs demonstrate how a wide range of delivery methods satisfy the need for rigor, collaboration, and assisted autodidaxy in…

Describes how master's students in professional writing researched technical writing in specific workplace cultures. Discusses students' constructs for understanding their own writerly selves and constructs that emerged for the interpretations of themselves and others. States that teaching technical authorship means addressing such issues as…

Describes a postgraduate research degree program in National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) designed and offered at the University of Sussex. Vocational education and training is discussed, a brief historical background of NVQs and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications is included, and the development of the degree program is…

Author subjectively compares experiences in medical school, psychiatric residency training, and an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy accredited doctoral program in marriage and family therapy. Discusses differences and similarities between two programs. Proposes that primary objective of professional training is to learn to…

Presents an interview with James Berlin, an author and a professor of English. Discusses developments in composition and rhetorical studies, graduate programs, trends in English studies, and cultural studies. (SR)

Asserts that national accreditation of counselor education has taken on new meaning and that counseling has recognized accrediting body within higher education community. Recounts Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) precursors, founders' aspirations, and prospects for influencing the…

The 440 interventions completed by pharmacy residents in an inpatient on-call program were analyzed for their source (self-initiated, solicited by physician or staff pharmacist), type (selection of dosage, schedule, drug level monitoring, route of administration), impact on quality of care, cost of care, and clinical significance. (Author/MSE)

When 49 nurse practitioners with master's degrees and 31 without rated actual and ideal role behaviors, those without master's rated the majority of behaviors higher than did the other group. Results suggest that master's preparation may not be essential for nurse practitioners. (SK)

The evolution of the African-American Studies program at Temple University (Pennsylvania) from the early 1970s to the present is chronicled, from establishment of the Afro-Asian Institute in 1970 through its conversion to the Pan-African Studies department, retrenchment and reduction, reconstruction, and creation of a graduate program in 1988.…

Traces the development and institutionalization of educational research in Quebec since the 1950s. Describes the types of institutions carrying out educational research and research training; federal and provincial sources of research funding; and research themes, content, strengths, and weaknesses in recent years. (SV)