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Book A Rating of Graduate Programs

Download or read book A Rating of Graduate Programs written by Kenneth D. Roose and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Critical Evaluation of the Cartter and Andersen Roose Reports on the Ranking of Graduate Programs in Higher Education

Download or read book A Critical Evaluation of the Cartter and Andersen Roose Reports on the Ranking of Graduate Programs in Higher Education written by William Patrick Dolan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in the United States

Download or read book An Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in the United States written by Committee on an Assessment of Quality-Related Characteristics of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1982-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. research-doctorate programs in the social and behavioral sciences were assessed by a committee of the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils. Attention was focused on 639 research-doctorate programs in seven disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences: anthropology, economics, geography, history, political sciences, psychology, and sociology. The effectiveness of these programs in preparing students for research careers was assessed. Indices that might be relevant to program quality were examined, and information was provided to evaluators on the names of faculty members involved with each program to be rated and the number of research doctorates awarded in the last 5 years. After describing the background to the study and the research methodology, survey findings are presented for each discipline. In addition to extensive statistical findings and analyses, the following appendices are presented: the Survey of Earned Doctorates, the instrument used in the reputational survey, the ARL Library Index, data on faculty research support and research and development expenditures, data on publication records, and lists of planning committee members and participants of the Conference on the Assessment of Quality of Graduate Education Programs. (SW)

Book An Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in the United States

Download or read book An Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in the United States written by Social Science Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1982-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of doctoral-level chemistry (N=145), computer science (N=58), geoscience (N=91), mathematics (N=115), physics (N=123), and statistics/biostatistics (N=64) programs at United States universities was assessed, using 16 measures. These measures focused on variables related to: program size; characteristics of graduates; reputational factors (scholarly quality of faculty, effectiveness of programs in educating research scholars/scientists, improvement in program quality during the last 5 years); university library size; research support; and publication records. Chapter I discusses prior attempts to assess quality in graduate education, development of the study plans, and the selection of disciplines and programs to be evaluated. Chapter II discusses the methodology used, focusing on each of the assessment measures. Chapters III to VIII present, respectively, findings from the analyses of the chemistry, computer science, geoscience, mathematics, physics, and statistics/biostatistics programs. Chapter IX includes a summary of results, correlations among measures, several additional analyses, and suggestions for future studies. Among the findings reported are those indicating that mathematics programs had, on the average, the largest number of faculty (N=33) in December 1980 followed closely by physics (N=28) and chemistry (N=23), and that 80 percent of computer science students had job commitments by graduation. (Survey instruments and supporting documentation are included in appendices.) (JN)

Book An Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in the United States

Download or read book An Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in the United States written by Committee on an Assessment of Quality-Related Characteristics of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of doctoral-level chemistry (N=145), computer science (N=58), geoscience (N=91), mathematics (N=115), physics (N=123), and statistics/biostatistics (N=64) programs at United States universities was assessed, using 16 measures. These measures focused on variables related to: program size; characteristics of graduates; reputational factors (scholarly quality of faculty, effectiveness of programs in educating research scholars/scientists, improvement in program quality during the last 5 years); university library size; research support; and publication records. Chapter I discusses prior attempts to assess quality in graduate education, development of the study plans, and the selection of disciplines and programs to be evaluated. Chapter II discusses the methodology used, focusing on each of the assessment measures. Chapters III to VIII present, respectively, findings from the analyses of the chemistry, computer science, geoscience, mathematics, physics, and statistics/biostatistics programs. Chapter IX includes a summary of results, correlations among measures, several additional analyses, and suggestions for future studies. Among the findings reported are those indicating that mathematics programs had, on the average, the largest number of faculty (N=33) in December 1980 followed closely by physics (N=28) and chemistry (N=23), and that 80 percent of computer science students had job commitments by graduation. (Survey instruments and supporting documentation are included in appendices.) (JN)

Book The Rise of American Research Universities

Download or read book The Rise of American Research Universities written by Hugh Davis Graham and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important and timely work, Graham and Diamond reassess the success of American universities as research institutions and the role of public funding in their developmentfrom the expansionist golden yearsof the 1950s and '60s, through the austerity measures of the 1970s and the entrepreneurial ethos of the 1980s, to the budget crises universities face in the 1990s.

Book A Survey of Continuing Education Opportunities Available to Nonacademic Scientists  Engineers  and Mathematicians

Download or read book A Survey of Continuing Education Opportunities Available to Nonacademic Scientists Engineers and Mathematicians written by Elaine H. El-Khawas and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education

Download or read book Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education written by E. Hazelkorn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book is the first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, making an important contribution to our understanding of the rankings phenomenon. This book has also been published in Japanese.

Book Higher Education

Download or read book Higher Education written by D. Kent Halstead and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Lever Long Enough

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  • Author : Robert McCaughey
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 0231537522
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book A Lever Long Enough written by Robert McCaughey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS's engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. McCaughey compares the historical struggles and achievements of the school's engineers with their present-day battles and accomplishments, and he contrasts their teaching and research approaches with those of their peers at other free-standing and Ivy League engineering schools. What begins as a localized history of a school striving to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences becomes a wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.

Book Classics

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  • Author : Phyllis Culham
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780819174505
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Classics written by Phyllis Culham and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books like The Closing of the American Mind and debates like the one over the Stanford reading list have called for reconsideration of the role of the Greek and Roman classics in American education. This collection meets that challenge by offering classicists of divergent viewpoints the opportunity to rethink Classics as a discipline. Contents: The State of the Classics; Classics as a Profession; Classics as an Academic Discipline; and The Classics Community.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Higher Education in the United States  2 volumes

Download or read book Higher Education in the United States 2 volumes written by James J. F. Forest and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the changing landscape of American higher education, from academic freedom to virtual universities, from campus crime to Pell Grants, from the Student Privacy Act to student diversity. In the years following World War II, college and university enrollment doubled, students revolted, faculty unionized, and community colleges evolved. Tuition and technology soared, as did the number of first-generation, minority, and women students. These changes radically transformed the American system of postsecondary education. Today, that system is in trouble. Its aging professoriate prepares for retirement, but low academic salaries can no longer attract the best minds to replace them. A flood of corporate dollars funds commercial research, but money for basic research—the seedbed of American scientific preeminence—has dried up. Colleges and universities also face heated competition with for-profit education providers for students, faculty, and external financial support, along with the costs of providing remedial education to growing numbers of students who are unprepared for postsecondary education. Higher Education in the United States provides a comprehensive analysis of these issues and others that scholars and practitioners of higher education study, discuss, and grapple with on a daily basis.

Book The File

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  • Author : Serge Lang
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461381452
  • Pages : 690 pages

Download or read book The File written by Serge Lang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The File is a collection of documents from a major dispute involving a number of American college professors, mainly mathematicians, statisticians,and sociologists. The controversy was ignited by the mathematician Serge Lang's reaction to a questionnaire, "The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate", distributed by E. C. Ladd of the University of Connecticut and S. M. Lipset of Stanford. The ensuing discussion - in part acrimonious and personal - soon involved a large group of active and passive participants, and included issues such as survey techniques, evaluation of academic work, public and political honesty, and McCarthyism at Harvard.

Book Fred Terman at Stanford

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  • Author : C. Stewart Gillmor
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780804749145
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book Fred Terman at Stanford written by C. Stewart Gillmor and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terman was widely hailed as the magnet that drew talent together into what became known as Silicon Valley."--BOOK JACKET.

Book 1976 National Science Foundation Authorization

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book 1976 National Science Foundation Authorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: