Many feel that scientists and engineers play a critical role in expanding the frontiers and knowledge of science and engineering and in educating and training future generations of scientists and engineers. They may do so by providing leadership in areas of national interest including efforts to increase the international competitiveness and…

Doctoral degrees in science education have been established in several European countries during the past years. This study attempts to survey this development in nine European countries (Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, German Democratic Republic, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom) and in the United States.…

Education, training, and employment are addressed in 33 papers from a 1984 conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. Papers are grouped in the main categories of professional education and the influence of industry, course development for vocationalism, teachers and teaching, learners and learning, higher…

Descriptions of approximately 300 graduate programs in political science at doctoral and masters levels are presented. Information was collected during September and October, 1977. The bulk of the guide contains descriptions of individual programs arranged alphabetically by the name of each school. Universities are listed by city or state names…

The percentage of speech communication doctoral graduates employed full time and the percentage working in academic institutions have declined considerably since 1968. The glut of humanities doctorates appears to present three courses of action: increase undergraduate enrollments, decrease graduate enrollments, or increase nonacademic employment…

A study was undertaken to investigate the expectations college professors have of either their doctoral or career mentors, especially the differences in expectations held by male and female professors. From the literature, a list of 27 common expectations was developed into a questionnaire. Full-time tenure-track faculty at a college and a…

MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING THE ENGLISH PROFESSION, SPECIFICALLY THE PH.D. AND THE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS, ARE ALREADY BEING EXPOSED BY DON CAMERON ALLEN'S STUDY, "THE PH.D. IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE," AND BY PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM THOMAS WILCOX'S "NATIONAL STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE ENGLISH PROGRAMS." THE AVAILABILITY OF…

This publication is the first regular report of the newly-funded Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Project on Expanding Regional Cooperation in Graduate and Professional Education. Information about approvals terminations, and adjustments in doctoral programs from July l, 1974 to June 30, 1977 was compiled from a survey of…

A shortage of qualified personnel in the field of geography in 1966 led to this national survey which assessed the current number of geographers in American colleges and universities. The principle source of information came from a set of questionnaires sent to the chairmen of 267 geography departments across the country. The results indicated…

This report supplements a 1966 report measuring trends in the production of geography graduates (see related document SO 008 431). The statistical information in this report was collected from published sources and a questionnaire sent to geography department chairmen in 1971. The results of the questionnaire indicate a surplus of Ph.D. graduates…

The Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962 established a "small" grants program for the support of dissertation research of candidates for the Ph.D. degree whose topics are related to manpower. The report presents the budget details of the awards in 1972; total grant proposals submitted; the geographical distribution of…

The seminar reported in this document was organized and conducted by the Council of Communication Societies to help provide executives, officers, and directors of communication associations a better understanding of what the future is likely to hold for various communication careers so that they can do a better job of planning career-related…

The results of an investigation of nontraditional, external graduate study programs are described. Primary emphasis is placed on doctoral degree programs and information on requirements, accreditation, duration, costs, etc., with data presented for 13 institutions. Institution names, addresses, and telephone numbers are itemized, along with…

What are the primary functions of graduate education and research in the United States, and how can these functions best be performed? Areas of concern shared by all the major universities offering doctoral programs include: (1) the general assessment of the Association of Graduate Schools of the status of graduate education and the proper…

This study of differential opportunities for men and women graduate students was undertaken for several reasons: (1) to help reach a consensus on a proper and operational definition of sex discrimination in graduate schools; (2) to turn the debate over sex discrimination toward efforts to document quantitatively the allegations previously…