Two universities that are working to prepare school counselors have changed their recruitment and selection procedures to attract increased numbers of candidates who can be optimally trained to fulfill the requirements. Describes criteria and procedures used to select graduate students who have the greatest promise of becoming leaders, advocates,…

Examines the underlying nature of Latina/o doctoral student experiences as well as the context that engenders these experiences. The nature of the students' experiences was found to be fragile and vulnerable. The context that produced these experiences included: lack of family understanding; entering a new and unfamiliar world; lack of adequate…

Recounts the experiences of the authors in implementing the principles of critical pedagogy in a graduate teacher-preparation course. The purpose is to raise the profile of critical pedagogy in English-as-a-Second-Language/English-as-a-foreign-language instruction and to provide suggestions related to classroom processes. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the review and revision of the ethics code of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors as a training tool for students in the mental health professions. Describes the revision proposal process undertaken by students in the Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education program at the University of Colorado at…

Describes the Holmes Scholars Network, a national mentoring program for graduate students from racial and cultural groups currently underrepresented in the education professoriate who are preparing to become college faculty in teacher education. Describes how the network operates through the levels of the Holmes Partnerships organizational…

Examined the effects of job attributes and student characteristics on graduate professional students' job attraction using two theoretical models. Dental students evaluated content-validated descriptions of three professional job options. Results indicated that significant predictors were job attributes, job attributes-by-gender interactions, and…

Discusses the increasing influence that the graduate student caucus is having on the Modern Language Association. Graduate students are now well represented on the organization's delegate assembly and executive council. Critics see the students as using fear and intimidation to press their needs in a bleak job market over other organizational…

Summarizes the difficulties likely to be experienced in Science-Technology-Society graduate education and research, and gives the reasons for optimism nevertheless. Concludes with an optimistic note about the future. (Author/NB)

Estimates relationships among graduate economics programs' attributes and recent Ph.Ds' occupational choices and publishing proficiency. Research experience in graduate school is positively associated with subsequent publishing proficiency. Other variables include graduate school ranking, graduate school faculty size and publishing proficiency,…

Describes an online course in which graduate students collaboratively investigated and shared personal experiences with respect to adult development. Topics include naturalistic inquiry that was used to identify issues that characterized course dynamics; adult education; flexibility of course; co-construction of meaning; and the expression of…

Offers a framework for being a mentor while engaging feminist praxis (promoting women, people of color, and others marginalized within the academy and assisting them in negotiations with the academy). Discusses strategies that have been useful in choosing a mentor, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, and the experience of being a…

Studied the effects of a combination of student collaboration, concept mapping, and electronic technologies with 26 students in a graduate level learning theories class. Findings suggest that concept mapping and collaborative learning techniques complement each other, and that students found the combined approach useful. (SLD)

Argues that prevailing approaches to educating graduate students as teachers need to be broadened conceptually and in practice. Suggests that preparing graduate students to teach constitutes only one component of a two-fold responsibility of graduate programs: to educate their students as both researchers and teachers. (Author/VWL)

This paper presents a bidding strategy that may be incorporated into case-intensive courses. The purpose of the bidding process is to equitably distribute credit when students are assigned cases of differing degrees of difficulty. The paper also collects data to help answer a basic research question regarding this device: Is there evidence of…

Although there is consensus that qualitative approaches to social research are distinguished from quantitative approaches by their fundamental philosophical systems, there is resistance to incorporating philosophical distinctions into graduate level research courses. Resistance may be due to the recognition that students have limited experience…