Applied graduate programs in Communication are recommended as a desirable alternative for the future. Advantages of such programs are outlined and potential problems discussed. The Instructional Communication program at West Virginia University is described as an example of a successful applied graduate program. (JMF)

Examines the extent to which spouse's level of education hinders or helps the careers of Ph.D. recipients. Findings indicate that having a Ph.D. spouse negatively affected wives' labor-force participation and husbands' offices held and articles published. Marriage to a highly educated spouse has at least some negative career effects. (Author)

Graduate degree programs in physical education must develop an instructional system that effectively bridges the gap between theory and practice and that utilizes the full resource potential of each student participant. (LH)

Shows how differences among types of professional schools can be explained on the basis of systematic research, using empirical data on a large sample of professional schools and analytical properties of the professions for which the schools provide training. (Author/CK)

Lists the following information for the school year 1975-76 for 200 institutions of engineering education: administrative officers, number of faculty, graduate degree requirements, off-campus extension centers for graduate study, research areas of accepted doctoral theses, personnel engaged in separately budgeted research, and research expeditures…

Kentucky's AHES offers health care students part of their clinical instruction in practice situations and in regions of the state removed from the major academic health science centers. Pharmacy students may choose an off-campus semester in either the fall, spring or summer since the fall of 1973. (LBH)

This article contains an annotated version of a comprehensive final examination given to an intermediate graduate level college course in data analysis. The author thinks a final examination in a data analysis course ought to test students' abilities to evaluate contemporary empirical political research. (Author/RM)

A case study of the implementation of a computerized decision aid in the Graduate School of Management at UCLA is presented. This decision tool helps determine the annual teaching schedule by assigning faculty to courses and other activities on the basis of their responses to course preference questionnaires. It can also help determine recruitment…

A three-semester (12-month) diploma program for veterinarians was begun at the University of Guelph in 1971 that is applicable to veterinarians employed in public health, regulatory veterinary medicine, and animal production medicine, where there is emphasis on preventive medicine. Each student completes a project suitable for seminar presentation…

Describes a program which helps minority graduate students obtain doctoral degrees in sociology at universities of their choice. Fellowships were distributed equally among the sexes when effects of each of the indicators of academic credentials were controlled. Similar conclusions were drawn regarding age, marital status, and geographic region.…

Presents an annual survey of doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics and foreign language education in the United States. The report lists degrees in the fields of African Languages and Literatures, Asian Languages and Literatures, Celtic Languages and Literatures, Classics, Comparative Literature,…

A survey of 54 graduate schools identified the content of training received by educational measurement specialists during their graduate educations. Forty-three programs offer master's degrees, with 14 focusing specifically on educational measurement. Students received basic skills and knowledge of statistical methods, measurement, and research…

Doctoral students often select one of four common research methodologies that are popular in the social sciences and education today: positivist; interpretive; ideological; and pragmatic. But choice of methodology also influences the student's choice of course work, membership of dissertation committee, and the form and structure of the…

Extends Pate and High's study of Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and other Related Education Program (CACREP) accredited programs. Focusing on the attention given to religion and spirituality in programs accredited by several different counselor and therapist-training accrediting bodies, found that many programs do not address client…

Outlines the rationale for exploring culture's role in educational administration practice. Examines how culture fits into a broad theoretical framework for studying administrative behavior, focusing on the societal culture construct as an exogenous and endogenous variable. Examines transmission of a knowledge base through training and…