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Grosz, Karen Sue, Ed. – Forum, 1987
This issue of "Forum," a journal designed to provide a marketplace of ideas for California community college faculty, contains six articles on current educational concerns. The first article, "Model Curriculum Committee: Santa Monica College," by Randal Lawson and Darroch Young, discusses the process of curriculum development…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Griskey, Richard G. – Engineering Education, 1990
Examines the correlation between doctoral degree productivity and extramural research funding. Discusses how to use the results. Presents examples of how administrators use the correlations for analysis and planning of their programs. (YP)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Science, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs
Peer reviewedWagener, Ursula – Planning for Higher Education, 1991
The article considers efforts to increase the number of minority persons, especially African Americans, earning doctoral degrees and describes the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Florida which has provided 167 doctoral fellowships. This program illustrates essential program components: aggressive recruitment; constant,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Blacks, College Faculty
Download full textAdams, Howard G. – 1993
This guide designed to be particularly useful to minority graduate students, outlines the process one must master in order to earn a doctoral degree. Through a step-by-step approach, it divides the doctoral degree process into four phases from entry to graduate school to completion of the doctoral requirements. It provides guides and checklists…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs, Financial Needs
Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC. – 1983
Designed for college and university departments and students, this guide provides a comprehensive listing of current graduate programs in geography in the United States and Canada. Following an explanation of the guide format, 146 of the total 169 graduate departments of geography are listed alphabetically under sections for each country.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs
Grinnell, Frederick – 1987
Science is many things to many people: a way of thinking and an activity of individuals in the laboratory; a highly structured institution that recruits, instructs, and regulates its members; and a sensitive, interactive, and integrated segment of modern culture and society. This book presents an introduction to these aspects of science from the…
Descriptors: Biology, Biomedicine, College Science, Doctoral Dissertations
Jones, Lyle V., Ed.; And Others – 1982
The quality of doctoral-level chemical engineering (N=79), civil engineering (N=74), electrical engineering (N=91), and mechanical engineering (N=82) programs at United States universities was assessed, using 16 measures. These measures focused on variables related to: (1) program size; (2) characteristics of graduates; (3) reputational factors…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, College Faculty
Jones, Lyle V., Ed.; And Others – 1982
The quality of doctoral-level biochemistry (N=139), botany (N=83), cellular/molecular biology (N=89), microbiology (N=134), physiology (N=101), and zoology (N=70) programs at United States universities was assessed, using 16 measures. These measures focused on variables related to: (1) program size; (2) characteristics of graduates; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Botany
An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Mathematical & Physical Sciences.
Jones, Lyle V., Ed.; And Others – 1982
The quality of doctoral-level chemistry (N=145), computer science (N=58), geoscience (N=91), mathematics (N=115), physics (N=123), and statistics/biostatistics (N=64) programs at United States universities was assessed, using 16 measures. These measures focused on variables related to: program size; characteristics of graduates; reputational…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Chemistry, College Faculty, College Mathematics
