Resulting from the collaboration between five practicing professionals and an LIS faculty member, this article illuminates the experiences of librarians and archivists who engage with LIS students on a continuous basis as guest speakers in LIS classrooms. The phenomenological approach helps to elicit first-hand accounts that encapsulate…

This statement establishes principles for graduate student mentorship that is inclusive, equitable, sustained, and networked. These principles are intended for graduate faculty and program administrators in masters and doctoral programs in rhetoric and composition and related fields to help sustain robust mentorship and related initiatives…

In this essay, the authors talk about higher degree supervision as a human relationship, and shares how to supervise a PhD. There's a tendency now to talk about supervision as if it's a technical process one needs to learn the rules of. This paper urges educators to think about this as a human educational relationship, which has all the ups and…

Many graduate creative writing programs depend on "star" faculty who have been hired more because of their professional reputation as writers than because of their commitment to teaching. As a result, such programs often fail to provide reflection on teaching that would truly serve their students. One step toward alleviating this problem is to…

This essay on values for library school educators examines the choice of values, communication between faculty and students, the search for values, and leadership qualities. (EJS)

Proposes an exchange program in which professors of educational administration would change places with administrators in the field. Argues that such an exchange would improve each group's image of the other. (IRT)

This essay on education for special librarianship discusses need for dialog between library educators and special librarians, recruitment for library field and library education, library school faculty recruitment and curriculum design, and the education of special librarians. Ten references are included. (EJS)

Describes the components and dimensions of the ideal of professionalism. Argues that the bureaucratic context professionalism functions as an ideology that distorts reality and controls workers. Makes these points specific through analysis of the working situation of college and university faculty, especially within the current fiscal crisis. (CMG)

Describes graduate study as an intimate relationship between a supervising professor and a student, a mentor-ward involvement in which the faculty member seeks advancement for the student in order to enhance the field and the student's role in it. Negative and positive implications of this relationship are explored. (JMF)

The author explores the reasons for the marginality of extension education, the advantages and disadvantages of assimilation, and an alternative to assimilation: greater faculty involvement and insistence on high standards in continuing education programs. (SK)

Argues that (1) there will be a steady need for PhDs in the fields of English and American studies in the 1990s; (2) attrition resulting from faculty neglect should be reduced; (3) new monies should be applied to support current enrollment levels; and (4) students should be trained for the realities of undergraduate teaching. (RS)

In graduate education, higher cognitive skills, scholarship, and research are being sacrificed to rote memory and encyclopedic knowledge. Ways that professors and administrators can improve graduate teaching include: define objectives, pick the right students and counsel them, restrict who can teach graduate students, provide students with a…

Averages the high, low, average, and median salary figures by rank for the faculty members of 84 responding departments of the 106 listed in "An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Humanities." (CRH)

Complexities involved in staffing a legal research and writing program with regular faculty members, as contrasted with instructors or teaching assistants, are addressed. Development, implementation, and maintenance of regular staffing are discussed. Available from Union University, 80 Scotland Ave., Albany, NY 12208; $2.50, entire issue. (MSE)…

Offers suggestions to enhance interaction between faculty and graduate students outside the classroom in order to maintain a quality Ph.D. program. Classifies types of graduate student-faculty relationships and analyzes costs and benefits to graduate students. (KC)