Conducted assessment of current status of doctoral education opportunities for student affairs professionals, drawn from data from the Doctoral Programs for Student Affairs Practitioners Questionnaire completed by 36 program directors, the Student Characteristics Questionnaire completed by 48 respondents, and a survey of 775 doctoral students.…

Increasing numbers of hospitals and medical centers employ clinical nurse researchers. Nursing doctoral programs can prepare graduates for this role with courses in philosophy and ethics; research methods, statistics, and measurement; grantsmanship; and information dissemination. (SK)

Authors describe how participation in doctoral-level career counseling practicum has influenced their perceptions of relationship between career and personal counseling, attitudes toward career services, and career interventions skills. Concludes that, to enhance profession of career counseling, education programs need to energize students to…

Shares observations about factors critical in the outcomes of the review of Ohio's state-supported doctoral programs in English. Details some of the responsibilities and challenges that both the departments and review panel faced in developing extensive self-studies. Argues that departments should address mismatches or anomalies in their programs.…

Presents arguments for and against inclusion of philosophy of science in doctoral nursing programs. Proponents suggest it promotes reflection and provides a frame of reference. Opponents say it distracts from development of a knowledge base for nursing as a discipline. (SK)

Discusses the rationale for introducing anthropology into a doctoral-level international business research methods course. Describes three anthropological frameworks designed for the course: a cultural awareness model adapted from G. Morgan's (1980) idea of paradigmatic orthodoxy; key organizing principles; and a mapping model allowing researchers…

Analysis of journal entries of 13 doctor of education students confirms the usefulness of journals for reflecting on and connecting academic learning and experience. Different writing styles (analytic, extracting, affective) had different learning outcomes. Course-feedback style had little benefit. (SK)

Presents evidence, from three national studies, that departmental ratings for research doctorate programs in the United States reflect a contextual property representative of the university and not various performance-based departmental attributes. Academic departments within universities are found to be quite similar with respect to external…

A survey of six universities offering doctoral programs in gerontology identified enrollments, costs, graduates' employment, and faculty characteristics. Not all offer a mix of specialties; none requires internships. Respondents agreed on the need for additional doctoral program development, but funding and faculty availability limit growth. (SK)

Describes the success of the PhD Project, an effort principally backed and managed by KPMG Foundation, which has helped steer hundreds of aspiring Black, Latino, and American Indian scholars into business doctoral programs. (EV)

Interviews with 26 nursing students in a Ph.D. program compared their perceptions of lifelong learning with the literature. Students identified practical applications of lifelong learning as well as deterrents and reservations about participation, including lack of time and the perception of it as compulsory. (Contains 41 references.) (SK)

A gerontology doctoral program used the concepts of homeostasis and complexity to present biomedical and psychosocial issues. Data from 14 students showed that homeostasis was more useful for biomedical than psychosocial issues. Complexity helped in understanding interactions between the two. (SK)

Within the now burgeoning literature on doctoral research education, postgraduate research supervision continues to be a problematical issue, practically and theoretically. This paper seeks to explore and understand supervision as a distinctive kind of pedagogic practice. Informed by a larger research project, it draws on poststructuralism,…

Leadership development programs come in many forms, sizes, designs, perspectives, and purposes, ranging from full-time doctoral programs to lunch-time brown-bag sessions. While the ideal leadership development experience would undoubtedly be the in-depth education in theory, philosophy, and practice that comes from experiencing a full-time…

This paper summarizes recent events concerning the evaluation of doctoral programs in kinesiology and physical education. An overview is provided of issues related to the evaluation process used by the National Research Council (NRC). The American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE) has developed a proposal to have our field…