The year 2001 marked a milestone for the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Doctoral Scholars Program, the graduation of the 100th graduate. The Doctoral Scholars Program was created in 1993 to address the national shortage of minority faculty. The program model provides support, encouragement, and preparation to help scholars who have been…

The challenge for the future is to link values and find common ground that encourages positive change. Education must no longer be a tool that simply serves public and private sector managers to preserve the authority of the privileged in large and small economies. Access to graduate education can become the bridge for developing common values in…

This study investigated the lives of six women mathematicians to describe the factors and experiences that led each woman to become successful in mathematics. Because "voice" was used as a metaphor in this study, emphasis was placed on listening to and interpreting the participants' voices. The study used narrative inquiry to investigate…

This study applied nonparametric bootstrapping to test null hypotheses for selected statistics (KR-20, difficulty, and discrimination) derived from a student-made test. The test, administered to 21 students enrolled in a graduate-level educational assessment class, contained 42 items, 33 of which were analyzed. Random permutations of the data…

As part of an ongoing study of statistics anxiety, 37 students in the Master of Education program in a small, private liberal arts college completed a Likert-scale instrument asking them to rate from 1 ("not at all") to 5 ("a great deal") the extent to which 16 specific strategies reduced their statistics anxiety in the educational research…

Foreign students are annually attracted to American higher institutions in large numbers. They are to be found in every type of college or university, pursuing courses of all sorts and of every degree of advancement. In order that these students may have some guide to the conditions of graduate study in this country and to the noteworthy…

The Student Affairs profession has changed significantly. Is graduate training keeping up? Do young Student Affairs professionals know what to expect once they get to campus? Members of NERCHE's (New England Resource Center for Higher Education) Student Affairs Think Tank met to discuss the relationship between graduate training and the workplace.

Although demand for more counselor educators doesn't appear strong over the next decade, there seems to be a steady need for replacements in the areas of schools, higher education, rehabilitation, and employment. The larger need over the decade seems to be for counselor educators with special skills in these areas: Inservice Training, Career…

A student enrolled in the School of Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado explains that the program permits study in various ways so that a student may acquire whatever skills he feels are necessary to ensure his employment marketability. (HMD)

This short article describes innovations in the counseling practicum at Ball State University. Such innovations include the setting up of a laboratory (wherein students spend at least four hours per week engaging in activities such as tape critiquing, encounter, and discussion), supervision of prepracticum by practicum students, and the use of a…

The hypothesis of this paper inferred that there is a relation between students' cognitive reorganization of the meaning of certain social work concepts and the formal socialization process that they experience in a graduate school of social work. (Editor)

Article describes how objectives were transplanted from one established course to another course, adjusted in accordance to the aim of the new course, and then used as a tool in the planning, teaching and evaluation of the new course. (Author)

The Shared Experience Program in New England exposes students to their chosen vocational field be encouraging close contact with a sponsor in that field. (Author)

An independent task force, sponsored by HEW, has recommended that the bulk of federal funds for graduate study be distributed directly to students in the form of portable fellowships, rather than have the aid channeled through universities and their graduate departments. (Author)