This pamphlet guides the college graduate in determining whether graduate school is an appropriate choice in career planning. Chapter titles include: "Why Graduate School?,""What is Graduate Education?,""Preparation for Graduate School,""Career Options with a Graduate Degree,""Making the Decision,""Financing a Graduate Education,""Choosing a…

Information is presented on an informal study designed to identify common bibliographic denominators shared by the faculty at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA) that directly contributed to SUNYA's newly developed Ph.D. program in information science. A focus of the study was on understanding how different interpretations of the…

Most clinical training programs attempt to produce psychologists who are both skilled research scientists and practitioners. This scientist-practitioner or Boulder Model, named for the 1950 conference on clinical psychology held in Boulder, Colorado, has been the subject of much scholarly debate. A study was undertaken to examine the career goals…

An analysis of journal publications by members of political science departments in 38 universities in the southern and southwestern United States reveals relatively low research productivity for most institutions. The 2-year study (1980-1981) involved an examination of over 20 journals cited in the Social Science Citation Index. All graduate…

This paper contends that school psychologists often are expected to reconcile, interpret, and evaluate the cognitive and behavioral functioning of children with neurologically related disorders. In this light, it is suggested that students in graduate programs in school psychology could benefit from specialized education and experience in applied…

A study examined the relative prestige of university speech communication departments based on the published output of their graduates. All issues of nine major speech communication journals were examined for the period 1971 to 1981. Approximately 200 institutions were represented in the 3,771 entries in the data base; 90 percent of the authors…

A survey was conducted to update previous rankings of speech communication doctoral programs. Subjects were a random selection of every sixth name on the Speech Communication Association (SCA) membership list, and members of the SCA who have been the first authors of journal articles in the SCA journals in the past 10 years. In addition to…

Intended to aid theatre administrators as they attempt to exhange information, high school and college faculty members as they advise students on the availability of suitable programs, and students of theatre as they seek degree programs appropriate to their needs, this directory groups theatre programs by state and lists them alphabetically. Each…

The guide, now in its 14th edition, provides information about requirements, course offerings, financial aid, and personnel for 150 graduate departments of geography in the United States and Canada. The objective is to assist college and university departments in answering student inquiries concerning graduate training in geography. The guide is…

CHAIRMEN AT THE ASSOCIATION OF DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH MEETING DISCUSSED THE 1965 PROPOSALS FOR THE PH.D. AND ATTEMPTED TO CONVEY THAT A PH.D. PROGRAM CAN PREPARE A STUDENT TO BE A TEACHER AND A SCHOLAR WITHOUT INCLUDING REQUIREMENTS APPROPRIATE ONLY FOR THE RELATIVELY SMALL GROUP WHO WILL BE DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO RESEARCH AND WRITING. THE LENGTH…

This report is the third in a series of annual studies directed to institutions granting Ph.D. degrees in science in the United States and to their medical school components. Both Ph.D. and masters students are included in the 354-institution survey. Information gathered reveals that fall 1974 graduate science enrollment in institutions of higher…

In this paper a review of the major findings of the 1973 Survey of Graduate Science Study Support is presented. Results are compared with similar studies which go back through 1967 and a survey conducted in the fall of 1974 of 360 graduate science departments. From the studies, it was found that graduate science and engineering enrollment…