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Barnes, Benita J.; Randall, Jennifer – Research in Higher Education, 2012
Previous research suggests that it is the department, not the graduate school that bears the greatest responsibility for doctoral students' progress and success (Ehrenberg et al., Doctoral education and the faculty of the future (pp. 15-34). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, "2009") dictating the need to examine and understand how doctoral…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Doctoral Programs, Rating Scales, Humanities
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Bresser, Rudi K. – Research in Higher Education, 1984
The concept of paradigm development, it is suggested, can explain differences in organizational contexts of university departments. Departments from high-paradigm fields are embedded in a context with clearly identifiable and distinguishable dimensions. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Departments, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
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Roemer, Robert E. – Research in Higher Education, 1983
Patterns of degree selection in 1970-71 and 1978-79 are compared with each other and with that of men. The rate at which women's representation in a field changes is judged by an index of rate of change, and the redistribution of women among fields is analyzed. Possible explanations are offered. (MSE)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Degrees (Academic), Educational Trends, Females