Students enter postsecondary institutions to change their lives in some way, with degree pursuits providing opportunities to grow academically, socially, and professionally. However, significant numbers of students are unable to meet the goals they had set for themselves when they entered college. Developed by the What Works Clearinghouse™ (WWC)…

This "Evidence Meets Practice" guide is a summary of the lessons learned at the Evidence-Action-Innovation College Completion Symposium convened by the U.S. Department of Education on January 30, 2012. These findings emerged from conversations among researchers, postsecondary education practitioners, and policy experts. The institutional examples…

Special education faculty members can help develop programs to facilitate the adjustment of learning disabled (LD) students by promoting positive campus attitudes, advisory LD students, facilitating career planning, modifying instructional programs, and helping in learning centers. (CL)

Getting your doctorate part-time or via the computer makes it difficult to schedule meetings with your advisor, use the library's resources, or discuss your topic ideas and dissertation difficulties with fellow students. Problems unique to nontraditional graduate students are alleviated with this easy-to-use dissertation guide. In sections devised…

Lists the types of information student publications advisers should know, as well as a number of "dos" and "don'ts" for advisers. (GT)

Provides 24 practical suggestions to aid student publications advisers in organizing one-day workshops for journalism students. The suggestions are divided into three sections: preconference planning, day of conference activity, and follow-up activity. (TJ)

Designed for use by both beginning and experienced school newspaper advisers, this handbook offers information in all phases of newspaper production. Topics discussed in the handbook's 15 chapters include: (1) purposes of the student newspaper; (2) authority and adviser/administrator relations; (3) organizing the staff and working with it; (4)…

Offers ideas for minimizing problems connected with school newspapers. Includes a listing of the newspaper's functions; the responsibilities of the principal, the adviser, and the student staff; and general recommendations. (WD)

Examines three myths concerning high school publications photography. Offers faculty advisers ideas for establishing good procedures and organizing the photography aspects of a student publication. (RL)

Suggests guidelines that faculty advisers can use to create an effective darkroom and darkroom staff for student publications. (RL)

Discusses how it would be beneficial to high school journalism teachers and publications advisers if they could pay Journalism Education Association dues at the same time they pay dues for state Scholastic Press Associations. (MS)

Argues that journalism advisers and their staffs should attend scholastic journalism/publications workshops and conventions. (RS)

Suggests ways advisers can improve themselves and their school newspapers, such as coordinating activities with other school faculty and members of the local business and arts community. (RL)

Offers a composite, based on the responses from five publishers, of what yearbook advisers should include in the requests for bids that they send to yearbook publishers. (RL)

Describes a case of possible censorship of a student newspaper which resulted in the creation of a publications board. Explains the publications board was made up of objective advisors who believed in and supported the rights of student journalists. Outlines numerous examples of how the board resolved issues and taught students lessons. (PM)