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...Carnegie Corporation announced recently that it will sponsor a two-year $100,000 study of graduate education in the United States. Bernard Berelson, professor of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago, will conduct the project...
...Berelson, who has been director of the Ford Foundation's behavioral sciences program, will consider the objectives, standards, and functions of the graduate schools in the American system of higher education. He will make a broad review of the history of graduate education and its institutions in order to locate and interpret major trends and active issues...
Among the specific topics which Berelson will survey are the recruitment of students and placement of graduates; relations between graduate education and professional education, and between graduate education and undergraduate programs; the development of post-doctoral programs; and problems of financial support...