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Lipschutz, Susan S. – CGS Communicator, 1988
The graduate school at the University of Michigan (UM) is seeking to identify the characteristics of a high quality graduate education, taking into account various aspects of quality that are susceptible to numerical analysis as well as those that are not. Contemporary research universities are composed of many autonomous spheres (undergraduate…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Graduate School Faculty, Graduate Students
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A small group of Association of American Universities (AAU) institutions was surveyed by the graduate school at the University of Florida in 1987 as part of a review of its own policies on faculty members pursuing graduate degrees and appointment to the graduate faculty. This was intended to give the graduate council a basis for comparison with…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Graduate School Faculty
Chandler, Trevor L. – CGS Communicator, 1988
Given the currently limited numbers of minority students seeking graduate degrees, the competition among universities to attract them has increased. The role that faculty should play in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students is discussed, in particular the type and quality of the relationship between minority graduate students,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Black Students, College Faculty, Ethnic Groups
Kidwell, Clara Sue – CGS Communicator, 1989
The number of American Indians enrolled in institutions of higher education is very small. Enrollment figures for fall 1984 show Indians made up .68% of the total enrollment in institutions of higher education in the country, but only 15% of them were in universities. Their largest representation was in two-year institutions, where 54% of Indian…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indian Education, American Indians, Civil Rights
Casanova, Sally L.; And Others – CGS Communicator, 1992
This article offers opinions and insights from four graduate deans at California State University institutions concerning the master's degree and the direction of master's level education. It is noted that U.S. graduate education is increasingly concentrated at the master's degree level, and that this degree level serves a particularly important…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Degrees (Academic), Educational Trends, Financial Needs
Spencer, Donald S. – CGS Communicator, 1986
Past and current features of the master's degree and planning implications are considered. After outlining the traditional master's degree, five recent trends are addressed: specialization, professionalization, application, decentralization, and depersonalization. The number of special master's degree programs has grown, and many programs lead to…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Programs, Decentralization, Distance Education
