In a keynote address, the speaker discussed the findings and recommendations in the report of the National Commission for Student Financial Assistance, issued December 1983. (PD)

There is a place for the well-educated individual in business and industry; the problem lies in breaking down the barriers between academia and business. Barriers due to business and academic attitudes and four steps toward eliminating them are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Universities are challenged to maintain the essential fabric of graduate education while taking advantage of the opportunities occasioned by university-industry arrangements. A new set of mechanisms has emerged that is characterized by a more stringent intermeshing of graduate education and university-based research with the needs of specific…

Presents findings on the current state of development of gerontological content in the curricula of the nation's graduate schools of social work. Findings indicated that these schools have made a significant start toward incorporating gerontological content. Proposes four basic models to accommodate further expansion in gerontological social work…

Provides information concerning the program quality of departments offering master's degrees in speech communication. Employs the subjective approach to measuring quality through the use of peer evaluations. (PD)

Described is the program of cooperative education in graduate engineering at the University of Cincinnati. (SL)

Discusses the program, students, faculty, alumni, Third World representation and women, government, curriculum, philosophy of education, the contract system, financing, and problems of the graduate school of the Wright Institute, Berkeley. (Author/AM)

Describes the experience of a graduate program in psychology which has evolved a pattern having as a major objective the development of a new profession, the public affairs psychologist. Discussion aims to identify the general educational and operational issues involved in this setting. (Author/AM)

Counselor education is sometimes exciting and sometimes frustrating. Students in the counselor education program at Idaho State University have formulated a way of dealing with the frustrations associated with graduate education in counseling. "The Candidacy Game" was developed as a result of the pressures facing graduate students in the program.…

Historical claims of various law schools are examined with focus on the variety of types of education offered. A list is offered of the oldest American university law schools in continuous operation. (LBH)

Discusses a food engineering course that is offered as part of a chemical engineering curriculum and combines the topics of food science, kinetics, and transport phenomena. (MLH)

Describes a chemical engineering course in nuclear fusion reactor systems; includes plasma problems, fuel cycles, materials, blanket problems, reactor control, environmental problems. (MLH)

The changing concept of higher education is addressed, including the idea of "equalization incompatibilities." The question is raised whether in a mass system of higher education one would have to consider a dual admissions procedure to preserve the academic core system; i.e., graduate studies and research. (Editor/LBH)

This study investigated the relationships among environmental noise (i.e., location, type, and constancy) and graduate student preferred learning styles (visual-overhead transparencies, auditory-lecture, kinesthetic-activity), gender, and age differences. The participants were 43 graduate students, who were currently teachers with experience…