Part I of this report presents a survey of grading practices used by higher education institutions in New York. After reviewing current bulletins or catalogues of all the institutions, questionnaires were mailed to 226 requesting information on prior grading practices and on any recent changes in these practices. Results, based on an 80% response,…

The rapid expansion of programs of study in higher education at the doctoral level represents an awareness of the need to know more about the organization of colleges and universities and to deal more effectively with the problems they face. The principal concern of this investigation was to document the incidence and scope of offerings in higher…

US graduate schools are called upon to meet the country's requirements for scientists, scholars, statesmen, administrators, lawyers, and doctors. The financial needs of the US university system have multiplied in the last few decades partly because of the rise in the number of students, but primarily because of the unceasing quest for new…

The power of US contemporary technological society is generated in the universities --especially in graduate schools-- but if graduate education fails to contribute substantial benefits to society, it should not be awarded indefinite financial support from the federal government. The comfort, power, and prosperity enjoyed in our age are…

This report reviews some of the recent literature concerning the prevalence and value of graduate language requirements, and provides information about the requirements of 19 New York colleges and universities. In general, the literature reveals a liberalization of graduate language requirements. At the doctoral level, there are trends toward:…

Teaching interns in the Temple program proceed through a 2- or 3-year training cycle which begins with a full-time, 6-week summer session of orientation to teaching for 8 semester hours of graduate credit. Interns accept a full-time, full-salary teaching position in a secondary school and during the first year enroll in the University for…

Dissatisfaction with traditional grading practices has been increasing steadily during the past few years. Although alternative methods have been used by many institutions, there will be no commonly accepted system until some agreement has been reached on the goals of graduate level instruction and grading. There is no evidence to indicate that…

The Santa Cruz campus of the University of California has been using pass-fail grading coupled with written evaluations of the student's performance since it opened in 1965. The only exceptions to the pass-fail system are in nonintroductory undergraduate courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics in which students may select the letter…

This essay is an attempt to view American higher education as a social system with a discernible structure and characteristic ways of functioning. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 describe the system as a whole, its units, and the functioning of the system in comparison with other systems of higher education. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with undergraduate…

The purpose of this study is to interpret the recent evolution of graduate education within the context of a larger, interdependent system. Graduate education is now in midpassage, suspended between the euphoria of the past and the uncertainties of the future. The essay's chapters attempt to illuminate the sources of past growth, and by…

This booklet is a guide to available financial aid for students majoring or minoring in journalism or communications. It is divided into two sections. Part one lists aid offered through schools and departments of journalism in United States colleges and universities, as well as by newspapers and professional societies. Entries are listed according…

This document reviews the status of graduate and professional education of women for 1974. The first section, a review of the literature, discusses background and current developments, the status of graduate education, reports concerning women in higher education, social factors and attitudes, institutional barriers, trends in specific…

Educational Programs for public administration were studied to develop guidelines for meeting the requirements of public service in the 1980s. The current state of education for public service is discussed along with a prospective view of the service over the next decade. Criteria for evaluating graduate programs are presented. (FOS)

This 3-year leadership development project was conducted to provide 18 selected vocational education teachers with an opportunity for graduate study in vocational education, research, and related areas, and to provide internship experiences in State and local educational systems, enabling participants to complete requirements for the degree,…

This report analyzes departmental variations in time to degree and attrition in Ph.D. programs at Berkeley. An alternative hypothesis, the Ph.D. production function, is examined by cross-section econometric analysis of 28 departments. The inputs included in the production function were student variables--quality and percent males; faculty…