A Walk through Graduate Education [microform] : Selected Papers and Speeches of Jules B. LaPidus, President of the Council of Graduate Schools, 1984-2000 / Jane A. Hamblin, Ed
- Bib ID:
- 5679326
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, DC
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2000
- 209 p.
- ISBN:
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- 9780970268006
- 0970268009
- Summary:
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This book was created to honor Jules B. LaPidus, retiring president of the Council of Graduate Education, and to preserve his writings and speeches. The papers and speeches of Part 1 show how the author addressed the topical issues of graduate education, moving from observation to direction on research, funding, and preparation of faculty. Part 2 contains speeches and one additional paper aimed at students. Following a preface in which the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools express their appreciation of LaPidus, these papers are presented: (1) "A Christmas Parable"; (2) "The Professionalization of the Master's Degree"; (3) "Research and the University"; (4) "The Concern for Quality and the Quality of Concern"; (4) "Graduate Education: Perturbations and Prospects"; (5) "Humanizing Graduate Studies in the Humanities"; (6) "The Graduate Pipeline"; (7) "The Strain of Quality"; (8) "Preparing Faculty: Graduate Education's Role"; (9) "Great Expectations: The Role of the American University in the 21st Century"; (10) "Communities of Scholars: Research in the University"; (11) "Some Thoughts on the Relationship between Research and Research Universities"; (12) "A Place for Learning: The University and Society"; (13) "Deja Vu All Over Again"; (14) "Scholarship and Research: Graham's Law Revisited"; (15) "Ph.D.s and Jobs: A World They Never Made"; (16) "Doctoral Education: Preparing for the Future"; (17) "If We Want Things To Stay as They Are, Then Things Will Have To Change"; (18) "The Role of Theses and Dissertations as Independent Works of Scholarship"; (19) "Some Globalization Aspects of Graduate Education"; (20) "Broadening the Scope of Graduate Education: Postbaccalaureate Futures"; (21) "Is What's Past (or Post) Still Prologue? Or 'You Used To Be My Used To Was But Now You Ain't No More'"; (22) "Numbers Last: A Proposal for Improving Departmental or Program Based Graduate Admissions"; (23) "A Passion for Graduate Education"; (24) "An Atlas for Scholars"; (25) "Reducing the Deficit"; and (26) "The Corner of Your Eye." An appendix contains four tributes to Jules B. LaPidus by colleagues. (Contains 125 references.) (SLD)
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- 2000
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