Racist incidents that graduate students in psychology may experience can be reflective of Eurocentric values and forces which permeate present institutions. To better understand these forces, the experiences and perceptions of racism as experienced by minority graduate students are explored. Seventeen doctoral students in psychology, who…

This study followed 57 New Zealand candidates for a Ph.D. in Education through the years of writing their theses, focusing on their internal struggles and how these affected, and were affected by, those with whom they had close relationships. Their efforts to balance the scholarly, professional, interpersonal, and domestic dimensions of life, a…

An effort to build a curricular framework for doctoral study at the University of Texas-Pan American, using themes and standards proposed by the Council of Chief State School Officers and others, is described. A small faculty group undertook to simultaneously develop a curricular sequence of course topics while initiating a new doctoral program…

Excerpt from the paper, "A Cannibalistic View of Graduate Education, presented at the meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools, December 4-6, 1969, in Washington, D.C. (DS)

A response to Dwight L. Burton's The English Education Doctorate: Some Further Reflections," English Education," vol. 1, no. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 135-40. (Author/RD)

The development of evaluation and development programs for clinical faculty was based on information and criteria gathered from 22 other doctoral pharmacy programs. Specific guidelines for promotion and/or continuing appointment and an outline of the faculty training program in clinical research, evaluative research, and improved teaching are…

Faculty shortages, antiquated laboratory equipment, and precollege preparation have been identified as components on the engineering education crisis. An examination of these and other areas (including salaries and doctoral programs) indicates that it is absurd to ascribe crisis to the problems afflicting engineering education. (Author/JN)

Summarizes study of curricula of nine graduate programs in instructional development (ID). Comparisons are presented on nine variables--purpose; curriculum development processes; ID courses; where/how ID is learned; synthesizing projects; emphasis of faculty/organization development and performance solutions; orientation to evaluation and ID; and…

Clearer conceptual and operational distinctions in doctoral education are advocated, based on professional functions that graduates are expected to perform. Distinctions between education for advanced practice and education for research are encouraged. Content areas for practice-related curriculum are suggested. (MSE)

More counseling psychology students, including those from programs not approved by the American Psychological Association, are obtaining internships. There are fewer but better applicants and while students are having an easier time finding internships, especially in community mental health centers, job placements are more difficult. (JAC)

Data from the Social Science Citation Index are used to measure the differential productivity among graduates of established and prestigiuos doctoral programs. Quality of former graduate students' productivity (publications) is assessed. Patterns concerning the quality of productivity, both across departments and within alumni of the same…

The Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum at the University of Utah provides an integrated program of courses, clerkships and clinical research. Competencies and terminal behavioral objectives are defined and student progress is evaluated through the use of behaviorally-anchored rating scales. A sample rating scale is appended. (JMD)

The field-based program of Nova University is described in terms of the nature of the clients and the institution's relationship to the broad system of higher education. Structural factors that contribute to the program's effectiveness are outlined along with problems affecting the future of such programs. (JMF)

Sudden growth in the number of doctoral programs in black studies is helping to legitimize the discipline in academe, and diversity of curricula is providing students with many more choices of emphasis. Programs have a wide range of focus, from the broadest, the black American experience, to the African diaspora and comparative black studies.…

In 1990 the University of Alberta introduced a substantially revised Ed.D. program in educational administration to provide a more practice-oriented program and a reduced requirement for continuous full-time attendance. The revised program featured five mandatory courses and two course-equivalents of field experience. Examples of students'…