The purpose of this study was to develop guidelines for a doctoral program in leisure studies/recreation in the five categories of: policies concerning students, faculty issues, organization and administration, achievement of goals, and core curricula. To accomplish this purpose, data were gathered from institutions of higher education which provide a doctoral program in leisure studies/recreation, from graduate faculty in leisure studies/recreation, and from recent graduates of doctoral programs in leisure studies/recreation. / Institutional data pertaining to doctoral programs in leisure studies/recreation was gathered through brochures and catalogs. A questionnaire was developed by the investigator and distributed to graduate faculty members in leisure studies/recreation and recent graduates of doctoral programs in leisure studies/recreation. The graduate faculty questionnaire was distributed to 116 graduate faculty and the return was 78 (or 67 percent). The recent doctoral graduates' questionnaire was distributed to 91 recent doctoral graduates of leisure studies/recreation programs and the rate of return was 75 (or 81 percent). / The data analysis revealed these findings: (1) all doctoral programs (100 percent) required preliminary work in leisure studies/recreation to be completed if the applicant to the program did not possess either a bachelor's or master's degree in the field; (2) there is a tendency not to grant graduate credit for preparatory work at the doctoral level if the student does not have an acceptable academic background in lesiure; (3) almost one-half of the doctoral programs in this study did not conduct on-going evaluations of their programs; (4) the majority of graduate faculty and recent doctoral graduates believed that the department chairperson should have academic preparation in the administration and management of colleges and universities; (5) almost one-half of the graduate faculty believed that the department chairperson should be selected by the dean while the remaining graduate faculty believed the faculty should appoint the chairperson; (6) the majority of recent doctoral graduates believed that the department chairperson should be appointed by the faculty. . . . (Author's abstract exceeds stipulated maximum length. Discontinued here with permission of author.) UMI / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-07, Section: A, page: 2243. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75121 |
| Contributors | HARDING, DAVID BYRON., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 184 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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