Described in the context of current requirements for personnel to provide early intervention services under Public Law 99-457 is a 6-week preservice interdisciplinary graduate training program for infant specialists at the University of Connecticut involving both coursework and a 60-hour practicum. (DB)

The bonds connecting us to other human family members are easily found in every community and can be used to design instruction that heightens students' local and global awareness. Student teachers at a Massachusetts state college discovered numerous linkages and incorporated them within instructional units. Sidebars show searching strategies and…

Examines Black womens' participation in higher education in the United States and in East Africa. The progress of Black women in institutions and careers in both places is hindered by discrimination. Prescribes strategies to remedy this situation. (DM)

A discussion of Britain's regulation that master's and doctoral degree candidates must have two or three program supervisors identifies four potential problems: fragmentation of supervisory responsibilities; conflicting advice; unproductive games; and absence of overall perspective on the thesis. Experience with an improved, team approach is…

Alternate access to graduate nursing education for 85 registered nurses with nonnursing baccalaureate degrees included scores on the National League for Nursing Comprehensive Achievement Test and a special course, Matrices of Nursing Practice. A six-year study supports this method of selection for graduate nursing education. (Author/JOW)

Summarizes a study triangulating earlier qualitative findings that women administrators "cover" (adopt male behaviors and values) to reduce the stigma borne as females in a male-dominated profession. A test group of prospective female administrators displayed a more masculine sex-role orientation than a control group of females showing…

Gives responses from English graduate students to the question, "What bothers you most about graduate school?" Considers the role that the study of literary theory should have in graduate English studies. Argues that theory should become more like a verb than a noun, which it currently tends to be. (HB)

Explores teachers' constructions of historical knowledge, their perceptions of the learning process in a graduate curriculum course assignment, and what they learned about the nature of curriculum history, historical inquiry, and themselves as learners and teachers. (56 references) (MLH)

Defines challenges faced by counselor educators who teach family therapy courses in academic counselor training program as productive paradox. Stresses importance of acknowledging coexistence of seemingly contradictory treatment approaches when teaching marriage and family therapy to future mental health counselors. Offers framework for…

Defines performance technology, compares performance technology with instructional technology, and suggests ways to incorporate performance technology into graduate programs in instructional design and technology. Curriculum changes are discussed, similarities in analysis and needs assessment activities are highlighted, and the need for continuing…

Reviews trends in the preparation of foreign language graduate students as teaching assistants, and identifies such teaching-assistant development program elements as preservice workshops, methods courses, classroom observation, practice teaching, instructor visits, class videotaping, and peer assistance. (CB)

Summarizes the history of the law library profession and the development of the educational model for law librarians in light of the particular demands and needs of corporate and law firm libraries. Guidelines of the American Association of Law Libraries for graduate programs in law librarianship are discussed. (Contains 17 references.) (LRW)

Interviews with nine nursing master's program students classified as minorities elicited the following: (1) importance of personal determination and self-confidence; (2) influence of the undergraduate nursing program on the graduate school decision; and (3) family and friends as facilitators and barriers. Strategies for recruitment and retention…

Describes the growth, consolidation, and diversification of rhetoric and composition doctoral programs over the past seven years. Provides extensive data concerning the current status of 72 doctoral programs. Outlines each of the 72 programs individually. (HB)

Outlines how Purdue University initiated and shaped a doctoral program in rhetoric and composition within the English department. Provides an account of the department's goals, contextual influences, and emergent features in instituting such a program. (HB)