Reviews current elements of administrative thought and practice, aiming to provide a comprehensive outline for new programmatic ventures in educating future principals. Describes an existing nontraditional leadership preparation program at Butler University that allows students to work cooperatively on projects, learn through self-direction,…

Fast-track MBA and MPA graduates cycle through several managerial assignments during their careers, requiring that they repeatedly take charge of new units or organizations. This article summarizes research on the taking-charge process, distinguishing between the entering and established phases of a managerial assignment and describing applicable…

Discusses four questions to be considered when graduate students in theater are considering whether to pursue the Master of Fine Arts degree or the doctoral degree. (SR)

Reviews nine masters and doctoral degree programs in early childhood education and related fields. Names of contact persons, a description of program format, and a school statement are given for each program. (LB)

Raises a series of questions about the nature of graduate education across the many areas covered under the general heading "journalism and mass communication." Focuses on curriculum and on the difficulty graduate programs in journalism and mass communication have competing for scarce resources within the academy. (SR)

Finds that 36 universities offer advertising education at the master's level, 30 of them accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Shows that the cores of these programs differed significantly and, when compared to the graduate program accredited by American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of…

To help (British) schools meet their new professional-development responsibilities, a new, part-time, one-year course leading to an advanced certificate in education in professional-development coordination has been developed. Through questionnaires, interviews, and analyses of course members' assignments, this article explores previous…

Reports a study that examined the characteristics that enable graduate sport management programs to achieve their objectives. Surveys of sport management educators found they agreed on 11 characteristics that indicated a sport management program's effectiveness. Respondents believed an effective program should produce sport managers, not…

A junior high school social studies teacher describes changes that occurred when he took a sabbatical to study for a master's degree in school guidance, noting the experience was less taxing and more enjoyable than expected. The article highly recommends teachers take sabbatical leave because it has a rejuvenating effect. (SM)

A bias toward teacher education's model of professional development rather than medicine's has hindered nursing education in using Medicare for clinical teaching. Health care reform provides opportunities for nurse educators to fund graduate programs by assuming an entrepreneurial role. (SK)

Discussed is the idea that fundamental engineering research must be funded in both universities and industry to maintain U.S. competitiveness in the global market. The importance of an adequate level of fundamental engineering research in universities, industry, and government to which the education of undergraduate students, graduate students,…

The excerpt from the Carnegie Report stresses the need for a more inclusive definition of a scholar; recognition that knowledge is acquired through research, synthesis, practice, and teaching; use of "creativity contracts" that broaden, individualize, and give continuity to faculty careers; and aggressive support of teaching in research…

A new study reanalyzing previous data suggests that the widely publicized sharp increase in number of years to doctorates in the humanities is largely a statistical artifact. The new analysis finds an increase of 15 to 20 percent rather than the previously reported 38 percent in number of years to doctorate between 1972 and 1988. (DB)

The training of school principals must be motivated by a desire to serve U.S. society. University preparation programs are ethically bound to act as a gatekeeper for school districts; focus on principal quality, and examine the motive, means; and product to ensure high program standards. (four references) (MLH)

A recent survey of educational administration department chairs at 66 colleges and universities disclosed that only 27 percent of all regular administrator endorsements offered (excluding special education) require a knowledge of special education law. Universities are apparently confused about state endorsement requirements for school…