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Alison Cook-Sather; Abyssinia Braud; Brisa Kane; Abhirami Suresh – Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 2024
Higher education students, formally adults, are nevertheless subject to adultism. The co-authors of this article--the director of the Students as Teachers and Learners (SaLT) program and three undergraduates who have worked in pedagogical partnership with faculty through SaLT--discuss how this program counters adultism on three levels:…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Power Structure, Age, Higher Education
Striving to Breathe and Balance on the Brink: Spirituality in the Lives of New Faculty in Transition
Riley, Ann T. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to increase an understanding of spirituality's place in the holistic adult adjustment of new faculty members during their transitional years at a public research university. Many have been concerned about the sense of fragmentation experienced in the academy and have called for cultural reforms of the conditions that…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Religious Factors, Role, College Faculty
Thorburn, Sarah; Blackburn, Robert T. – 1986
The effect of participation in interdisciplinary general education programs on personal and professional development of faculty was investigated at Denison University (Ohio), Earlham College (Indiana), and Kenyon College (Ohio). Faculty members teaching interdisciplinary general education courses in these private liberal arts colleges were…
Descriptors: Adult Development, College Faculty, Faculty Development, General Education
Heppner, Mary J.; Olson, Sandra K. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1982
Discusses how existing college career centers can be expanded to be more responsive to the needs of adults. Describes how adjustments in staffing patterns and training in the environment, resources, and public relations efforts at the University of Missouri created an effective evening career counseling service for community adults. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Career Centers, Career Change
New Horizons in Adult Education, 1993
Volume 3 includes the following: "Comparison of Computer and Audio Teleconferencing" (Norman Coombs); "Intellectual Suppression" [book review] (Roger Boshier). Contents of volume 4 are as follows: "Straight Time and Standard Brand Adult Education" (John Ohliger); "Comparison of Folk High Schools in Denmark, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy