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Direct linkGardner, Susan K., Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2009
This monograph seeks to inform faculty, staff, administrators, and students about the nature of and structure in doctoral programs that lead to doctoral student development. It is accomplished through succeeding chapters, focusing first on an overview of existing student development theory and then on the structure of doctoral education and its…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Student Experience, Student Development
Peer reviewedFincher, Cameron – Research in Higher Education, 1991
Research on substantive issues and concerns of higher education is handicapped by higher education's lack of status and recognition as an academic discipline or professional specialty. Theory-based and policy-related research should be recast as disciplined inquiry, doctoral programs strengthened, and preparation of scholars, professors, and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
Download full textCarlson, Daniel – 1989
This study evaluated the appropriateness of the Program in Higher Education offered at Nova University (Florida) for persons employed in full-time staff positions in religious colleges and universities. Current students (N=28) and six graduates were surveyed and a 60% return rate was obtained. Analysis of survey results indicated: (1) very high…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Degree Requirements, External Degree Programs, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedDill, David D.; Morrison, James L. – Review of Higher Education, 1985
Results of a national survey concerning the difference in research training requirements of the Ed.D. and Ph.D. degrees in higher education as a field of study are presented, and the need for and assurance of a distinction between the two types of degree is discussed.
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Degrees, Education Majors
Adams, Charles S. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1991
A survey indicates that declining resources, merging of programs, and loss of faculty positions characterize the changes in programs in higher education as a field of study and suggest an uncertain future. However, most programs see themselves as strong and programs that were prominent in the last decade remain so. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Economic Change, Educational Change
Crosson, Patricia H.; Nelson, Glenn M. – 1984
A descriptive profile of 72 U.S. doctoral programs for the study of higher education is presented. Attention is directed to program goals, academic offerings, organizational structure, faculty and student characteristics, and admissions and degree requirements. Directors of the 92 higher education programs listed in the ASHE-ERIC "Directory…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Curriculum, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Programs
Nelson, Glenn M., Comp.; Crosson, Patricia H., Comp. – 1984
A compilation of descriptions of graduate programs in the field of higher education is presented as prepared by the ASHE Committee on Curriculum, Instruction and Learning. The report is based on a survey of the 92 directors of masters and doctoral programs in higher education in the United States and Canada. For each of 65 respondents, one-page…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Programs, Comparative Analysis, Degrees (Academic)
