Graduate Students In Programs Research Articles

Undergraduate Education and the Next Generation of Conservation Biologists

A cry of alarm has recently been raised from several quarters that the future supply of scientists and engineers in the United States is in jeopardy. Such groups as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Foundation point with concern at the decrease in the number of students in graduate programs in almost all science and engineering disciplines over the past several years. Their concern has primarily focused on the danger this deficit poses for our nation's ability to achieve our scientific and technological goals: without a healthy supply of professionals in each of these fields, who will make the discoveries and solve the problems that form the foundations of our disciplines? Concern over the next generation of professionals ought to be particularly acute for conservation biologists. Ours is a discipline that involves issues that have a real and pressing element of time. We are not merely involved in the patient accumulation of knowledge, the value of which is independent of global conditions. We are in a race against time, where every scrap of information has a greater value yesterday than it does today-where we would have the greatest chance of success if we had all our information now. Species are going extinct, ecosystems are being degraded, and genetic diversity is being lost at rapid and accelerating rates. Extrapolation of these rates into the future shows that our mission of protecting the biotic integrity of the planet will only become harder as time elapses. Unlike most other fields, therefore, a decrease in the work force for conservation biology will limit our ability ever to deal with the challenge.

Cost Determinants in Canadian Universities

The relationship between costs per student and enrollment is examined with regression analysis for 61 Canadian universities for the academic year 1986-87. This relationship is explored for overall costs and for sub-components including instruction, library, computing, administration and physical plant costs. Also examined is the influence on cost per student of student mix, student-faculty ratios, faculty wages and research intensity. Among the conclusions are that economies of scale apply to Canadian universities and costs per student are positively related to faculty salaries, faculty research intensity and the proportion of students in graduate programs and scientific disciplines.

Participation and Degree Attainment of African-American and Latino Students in Graduate Education Relative to Other Racial and Ethnic Groups: An Update from Office of Civil Rights Data

In this article, Gail Thomas uses 1988-1989 degree completion data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights Survey to track the number of Black and Latino students awarded graduate degrees in engineering, mathematics, and science by U.S. institutions of higher education. Her study reveals the severe underrepresentation of Black and Latino students in graduate programs in these fields. Given the changing racial composition of the United States and projected shortages of science and engineering professionals and faculty by the year 2010, Thomas's findings challenge higher education administrators and policymakers to examine and correct the conditions that hinder the participation of U.S.-born minorities in science, mathematics, and engineering graduate programs and professions.

Recruitment and Retention of Black Students in Graduate Programs

Recruitment and Retention of Black Students in Graduate Programs

A Quantitative Comparison of Graduate Programs in Architecture and Interior Design

This article compares research activities and program specialities of 64 architecture graduate programs with 27 interior design graduate programs. The architecture sample was the list of schools in the directory of Architecture Schools in North America. The interior design sample was taken from the Interior Design Educators Council membership. The results indicate that there are more graduate programs, more areas of specialization, more graduate faculty, and more graduate students in graduate programs of architecture than in graduate programs of interior design. The study also identifies commonalities in program areas of specialization, research emphases, and scholarship. Implications of findings are addressed in the larger context of graduate education.

Factors Relating to Professional Development in Beginning Graduate Students in Counseling Psychology

Beginning graduate students in programs in counseling psychology approved by the American Psychological Association were surveyed to determine salient demographic characteristics, motivational factors influencing their decisions to enter graduate training in counseling psychology, their perceptions of the appropriate roles and functions of professionals in the field, and their goals and expectations regarding their future employment settings. Median or modal demographic data suggest that the "typical" beginning doctoral student in counseling psychology is a 25- to 35-year-old white female who has done previous graduate work and who has had prior mental-health-related work experience. Reasons for entering graduate school in counseling psychology were found to vary as a function of age. Although students 'perceptions of the field were found to be similar to those of seasoned professionals, they did vary somewhat depending on the students' professional goals. A very strong preference was expressed for private practice as a career goal.

Survey of foreign graduate students

In the 1983 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Graduate Student Survey, the issue of foreign versus national students in U.S. graduate programs was explored. In the past decade, the number of entering graduate students from foreign nations in American universities has risen from about 600 to about 1100, an increase from 23% in 1973 to 40% in 1983 of all entering physics graduate students in the United States. There are more than 10,000 graduate students in physics in the United StatesThe benefits, or lack thereof, of having foreign graduate students raises a number of philosophical points. Like all students, foreign students learn from academic programs; but at high competitive levels, they contribute as well. The essence of growth in any academic program is described by the creativity supplied by ever incoming students. In an academically competitive system the question of foreign students displacing U.S. students in graduate programs has no definition. On the other hand, what about the graduate job market after graduation? Some would point to the return of foreign graduates to their homeland as an example of U.S. education efforts not benefitting U.S. society, at least directly. Others worry about foreign graduates flooding the U.S. job market.

Closure to “Advising Non-CE Students in Graduate Programs”

Closure to “Advising Non-CE Students in Graduate Programs”

Discussion of “Advising Non-CE Students in Graduate Programs”

Discussion of “Advising Non-CE Students in Graduate Programs”

Advising Non-CE Students in Graduate Programs

To determine advising patterns in civil engineering programs for non-civil engineering graduate students, data from 21 schools geographically distributed in the United States were assembled. Specif...

Mental health ideologies of psychiatric nurses.

Students in graduate programs of psychiatric nursing across the United States were surveyed in terms of their individual commitment to three major mental health ideologies--community mental health ideology, psychotherapetic ideology, and somatotherapeutic ideology. In contrast to earlier research, which had indicated that psychiatric nurses are ideologically neutral, it was found in the present study that as a group these 386 young psychiatric nurses were more committed to community mental health ideology than to the other two psychiatric orientations measured.

MEDIA AUDIO VISUAL SEBAGAI SARANA PENGENALAN EKSPRESI EMOSI

Media can be exploited for various purposes, and each media has its specificcharacteristics for specific purposes. The messages of emotional expression throughaudiovisual media can be one means to recognize the competencies of individuals inidentifying the emotional expression. The emotional expression is defined as a patternformed in the facial expression in relation to the types of emotion perceived. There are fourtypes of emotional expressions including feelings of anger, sadness, happiness, and scare.This research was aimed at developing instruments to recognize the emotional expressionsby using audio visual media.Subjects involved 32 graduate program students of Faculty of Psychology, Gadjah MadaUniversity, Yogyakarta. Data were collected by using rating scale to recognize the emotionalexpression(feelings of angry, sad, happy, and scary). Quantitative analysis were used in thisresearch with the result of assessment on raters’ responses as additional data. The results ofraters’ average assessment showed that the scenes 1 and 13 indicated the highest score forthe expression of angry feeling, the scenes 10 and 14 indicated the highest score for theexpression of sadness, scenes 11 and 15 the highest score for the expression of happiness,and scenes 8 and 12 the highest score for the expression of scare. The fragments of thescenes were able to be exploited as instruments successfully passed the selection to recognizethe emotional expression.