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Direct linkPosselt, Julie R. – Review of Higher Education, 2018
Privileging elite academic pedigrees in graduate admissions preserves racial and socioeconomic inequities that many institutions say they wish to reduce. To understand this preference, I integrate across perspectives on trust in rational choice, social capital, and social network theories, and use the resulting framework to interpret 68 interviews…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Ambiguity (Context)
Stubb, Jenni; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Lonka, Kirsti – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This study investigates how doctoral students perceive research work in the context of their own PhD projects. Thirty-two students from a Finnish university were interviewed, representing three disciplines: medicine, natural sciences and behavioural sciences. Their conceptions of research varied in terms of describing research as "a job to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Research
Price, Jayne; Nicholl, Honor – Child Care in Practice, 2013
Parenting a child with complex health/palliative care needs is wide ranging. Family-centred practices place parents at the heart of the ongoing care of these children, and therefore it makes sense that their views and experiences should be central to research within the field. Despite this assertion, little guidance exists as to how best to…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Ethics, Novices, Qualitative Research
Laursen, Sandra L.; Weston, Timothy J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
The education of doctoral chemists contributes to the chemical research enterprise and thus to innovation as an engine of the economy. This quantitative analysis describes trends in the production and diversity of chemistry Ph.D. degrees in the top-50 U.S. Ph.D.-granting departments in the past two decades. Time series data for individual…
Descriptors: Productivity, Chemistry, Institutional Research, Doctoral Programs
Taylor, Gregrey M.; Killacky, Jim – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
Community colleges are facing a shortage in qualified individuals to fill the projected gaps in leadership roles, as the industry is facing an upcoming wave of vacancies due to the retirement of faculty and administrators. This phenomenological, qualitative study explored leadership readiness perspectives of graduates and advanced doctoral…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduates, Instructional Leadership, Higher Education
Download full textBreneman, David W. – 1977
The results of a seven-year program designed to reform graduate education in the humanities and social sciences sponsored by the Ford Foundation and 10 leading university graduate schools are reported. Evaluation focused on the Ford Foundation Graduate Program, original proposals submitted by the 10 universities, annual reports and data submitted…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Educational Change
