In this article we present an overview of a recently launched cohort-based Ed.D. program that prepares participants to conduct group dissertations. The program, a hybrid model of online learning activities and monthly face-to-face class sessions, is delivered through a partnership between a university's college of education and the administrative…

This article describes the experience in Spain of a specific collaboration between university teachers and school counselors, which used case-based approaches in a teacher training program. The collaboration ran for four years and involved 300 graduate students, two university teachers, and six school counselors. Three basic features enabled this…

A graduate seminar on writing for publication at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education is described. The assumptions guiding the course are followed by an elaboration of its key structuring components. Five lessons essential to the replication of a similar workshop are described. (Author/MLW)

The West Virginia Graduate College minority faculty fellowship program, which recruits minority doctoral students to the academic profession, is described. Appointed as non-tenure-track faculty, fellows are provided with experiences to acclimate them to the professoriate. Institutional benefits, program strengths and weaknesses, and…

To prepare new international graduate students for assignments as teaching assistants, the University of Washington chemistry department worked with specialists in language, pedagogy, and chemistry to design a discipline-specific training program. The program's structure, participants, benefits and limitations, and effectiveness in its first year…