Each of the presenters of the invitational symposium, State of the Science: Nurses and Social Workers Supporting Family Caregivers, identified the saliency of family caregiving issues for practice, research, and the education of professional social workers, caregivers, the business community, and the public to enhance support of family caregivers.…

Under the auspices of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID), the Department of History at the University of Kansas recast its doctoral program to emphasize career preparation. Its creative approach has earned the department national visibility. In this article, the author describes how the department came to reenvision graduate education,…

Although few students terminate their pursuit of a doctorate during the course-work phase of their program, many doctoral students drop out around the time that they successfully complete planned courses, a period known as "all but dissertation" (ABD). An examination of how professional educators who added a doctoral program to their…

This document presents tips for individuals applying to doctoral programs in clinical psychology. Suggestions are made for what applicants can do before they apply to improve their "applicant quality." Applicants should increase their Graduate Record Examination scores, go back to school if necessary to improve their grade point averages, obtain…

Addresses the problem of insufficient guidance for graduate students who are choosing their doctoral research area. Describes a required graduate course for all doctoral candidates in chemistry at SUNY Buffalo entitled, "Selection of Thesis Research." (MLH)

A seminar designed to make graduate research interesting if not even fascinating is described. (Editor)

DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION SHOULD HAVE ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS BASED ON ACADEMIC ABILITY, AGE, MATHEMATICS BACKGROUND, AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE. CANDIDATES SHOULD TAKE COURSE WORK EQUIVALENT TO A MASTER'S DEGREE IN ONE AREA OF SCIENCE AND A MINIMUM OF 1 YEAR OF STUDY, INCLUDING LABORATORY, IN THE OTHER MAJOR AREAS. ONE YEAR OF COLLEGE…

The purpose of this report is to characterize American graduate education in the 1960s and to identify many of the issues that will determine the character, magnitude, and direction of graduate education, especially in the sciences and engineering, during the next decade. In Chapter 1, Dimensions of Graduate Education, some of the salient features…

The rapid expansion of programs of study in higher education at the doctoral level represents an awareness of the need to know more about the organization of colleges and universities and to deal more effectively with the problems they face. The principal concern of this investigation was to document the incidence and scope of offerings in higher…

The purpose of this study is to interpret the recent evolution of graduate education within the context of a larger, interdependent system. Graduate education is now in midpassage, suspended between the euphoria of the past and the uncertainties of the future. The essay's chapters attempt to illuminate the sources of past growth, and by…

Proceedings of a conference held to determine how Doctor of Arts programs could be put together and how their quality might be maintained are contained in this volume. The 19 papers presented include the Keynote Address, 6 papers related to the topic "Doctor of Arts in the Market Place," 5 papers concerned with "Doctor of Arts:…

The Graduate College at Stout State University is considering an option to the present A-F grading system called "Mastery Grading," based on a concept called "teaching for mastery." This involves carefully defining each course in terms of the specific competencies which the student is expected to develop as a result of…

This report abstracts 13 studies directly or indirectly concerned with the counseling of graduate students. They identify some of the problems graduate students face and suggest changes that could be made in graduate programs to alleviate student dissatisfaction. The studies deal with: the need for counseling, the stifling of creativity, foreign…

This study attempts to obtain an evaluation of the graduate training of the University of Georgia Ph.D. graduates along with a measure of how well they have done since graduating from the University. Information was obtained by means of a questionnaire to the Ph.D. graduates who received their degree from the University between 1966-70. This…

A six-year program providing training for ten individuals in science education and seven in mathematics education research is described. Lists of program objectives, requirements and course work for the program, and faculty members involved are included along with information on selection of trainees, enrollment by year, resulting dissertation…