Focuses on the career opportunities available at community colleges for graduate students. The article describes the focus, curriculum, and ambience of the typical two-year college. It is concluded that an overriding requirement for teaching in these institutions involves not lesson plans or learning strategies but individual motivation. (two…

Examines the poor professional preparation of college students for postgraduate employment. The article maintains that students are unprepared to teach upper-division courses in second-language instruction. A lecture series to address problems in teaching these courses was developed and offered as a minicourse. (CK)

Discusses three papers presented at the 1994 ALA (American Library Association) annual convention in Miami Beach (Florida) that deal with investment information in academic libraries and their use by faculty, doctoral students, undergraduates, MBA (Masters of Business Administration) students, and individual investors. (Author/LRW)

Presents the results of an analysis of diaries of novice English-as-a-Second-Language teachers. General themes that emerged were novices' early preoccupations with their own teaching behavior, transfer and rejection of teaching skills used in the novice's own second-language learning, discoveries about effective teaching, and continued teaching…

Raises a number of questions about the direction of the English department in light of its fundamental transformations. Asks whether the profession wants to replace the study of literature with the study of culture or critical methodology, i.e., semiotics and semantics. Looks at graduate education and the place of literature in it. (TB)

Addresses key questions regarding how multicultural counseling programs arise, recommends readings that address ethnic parity in counseling psychology, and makes arguments in defense of affirmative action in psychology departments. Addresses the related issue of federal funding for psychology graduate students. (SNR)

Two case studies involving graduate education majors illustrate how multicultural/antiracist education and computer-mediated communication can interact successfully and further broaden cultural sensitivity in technology through diverse perceptions and contributions. Facilitating factors included theory-to-practice concepts, Internet dialogue, and…

Describes a "Basics of Teaching Physics" course as an approach to training teaching assistants (TAs) in science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) departments. The regular graduate course is based on constructivist learning: TAs construct their own understanding through guided questions, problem solving, reading and analyzing papers,…

Discussion of information available on the Internet focuses on two pilot studies that investigated how academic users perceive search engines and subject-oriented databases as sources of topical information. Highlights include information seeking behavior of academic users; undergraduate users; graduate users; faculty; and implications for…

Describes a University of Iowa Libraries' user needs assessment survey of a random sample of graduate and professional students. Results showed the need for more assistance in using the library, greater awareness of library services offered to graduate students, and the desire for more opportunities for library instruction. (Author/LRW)

Explored United Kingdom postgraduates' individual accounts of the experience of learning to see whether or not such descriptions of process reflected assumptions about "adults" appearing in some research literature. Found a diversity of approaches and experiences which did not fit with the idea of a distinctively "adult" way of…

Examined e-mail messages sent by Romanian Ph.D. students over the first 2 years of a (largely) distance education program based in the United Kingdom. Found that participants used e-mail to obtain support, inscribe their multiple identities within their messages, and adapt the medium for their own needs; these uses have particular value for…

Explores how, when a nutrition professor took credit for a graduate student's research, the student sued; Cornell says the professor did nothing wrong. (EV)

Investigates students' writing based on theories of learning. Considers thinking as something that is built in the process of interactions and confrontations with the thoughts of others. Investigation is based on qualitative analysis of 24 student dissertations written by social workers training to become managers of community services in two…

Examines the process involved in doing a literature search and in writing a master's dissertation, as well as the progress made with regard to a new research field undertaken during doctoral research. The first undertaking was initiated with interests but no fixed subject while the second started with a subject but little or no knowledge of the…