Over the past decade, public universities' expenditures for research and public service activities have increased faster than overall expenditures. This report presents information on direct expenditures for instruction, research, and public service at Illinois public universities during fiscal year 1992 and compares these findings to measures of…

Findings from a survey of universities offering doctorates in educational administration are presented in this paper. Questionnaires mailed to 40 universities in the south central United States elicited 28 responses, a 70 percent response rate. Findings indicate that no clearly defined methods existed to distinguish educational administration…

Seeking to understand the influence of gender on advisement relationships, 22 women doctoral recipients in education were interviewed using retrospective, in-depth, semi-structured interviews (audiotaped and transcribed verbatim), with the constant comparative method. Purposeful sampling adjustments and inclusion of relationships with all members…

Findings and recommendations presented in this study of the role and nature of doctoral disserations are based on deliberations of a task force of graduate school deans and 48 reports submitted by selected universities. Findings are offered in the areas of: distinguishing characteristics of dissertation research and dissertations; originality,…

The effects of the graduate experience on the intra- and inter-family relationships among married doctoral student couples were studied. Full-time students 35 years old or less enrolled at Ohio State University in 1982 and their nonenrolled spouses made up the sample. The ways that these students coped with the dual student-spouse role and made…

Graduate students are socialized by educational institutions to become docile, timid, and conventional. In graduate school, creativity and quality are left unrewarded, while conventionality and quantity are looked upon with favor. The graduate school experience which emphasizes a dissertation supervised by advisors who threaten the student with…

The Doctor of Arts degree may be well suited to students who plan to teach in two-year colleges. The author suggests reform of Ph.D. preparation in foreign languages to integrate language, literature and culture studies for a broader education. (CK)

Results of a 1985 survey of 497 academic staff concerning research degree study at the University of New South Wales (Australia) are summarized. Issues addressed by the survey were: the relevance of research study, desirable levels of enrollment in research study by field, the relationship between the Ph.D. and research master's programs, duration…

A proposal requesting approval to grant the Ph.D. as well as the Ed.D. to doctoral students in Educational Administration and Higher Education (EAHED) is presented. The proposal describes strengths and weaknesses of the present program and documents the program's development from one concentrating primarily on teaching and advising students to one…

This critical appraisal of North American doctoral programs contends that the degree is a seriously flawed academic institution. Recent scholarship and personal experiences are utilized to illustrate the contention that doctoral programs are inflexible, cumbersome, restrictive and wasteful, and, in most fields, do more harm than good. The history…

Two samples of doctoral program participants were surveyed for opinions about factors of relative importance in their selection of a counselor education program. Replies came from a national stratified sample of 55 programs comprising 249 recent doctoral degree graduates plus a second sample consisting of 211 doctoral program entrants. Data were…

A study surveyed doctoral reading students' preparation for the job market and their aspirations concerning job placement to determine how effectively colleges and universities are preparing people for employment in the field of reading. A total of 225 students (142 full time, 83 part time) from 34 institutions responded to the questionnaire. All…

A description is given of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Education, an integral part of the Doctor of Education Degree Program at Mississippi State University. The broad goals of the course are as follows: (1) It provides doctoral-level students with the opportunity to develop informed positions on the major issues confronting education as a…

This paper reports an interview case study with two physics doctoral students designed to explore their conceptions about the theory of evolution. Analysis of interview transcripts reveals that both students mistakenly constructed a "theory of evolution by environmentally driven adaptation" instead of the commonly accepted "theory…