For days and months, the author had experienced a crisis of faith. Because he had believed sports were beneficial for the university and the young athletes who participated in them, he had willingly invested seventeen years of his professional life in the administration of the athletics program. In 1988, he accepted a position as an an assistant…

The impetus, planning, and implementation of the University of Connecticut's faculty and staff development center based on an institution-wide needs assessment and individual faculty's expressed interests is chronicled. (MSE)

Last fall, the author addressed the AAUP's 2003 governance conference about a faculty-led initiative to reform college sports. The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) grew out of a meeting one afternoon in the student union at the University of Oregon among a few senior professors who had recently been appointed to the faculty senate.…

In this article, the author gives suggestions on how to make campus diversity initiative work. The author suggests making sure that the following conditions apply to a campus initiative before getting involved: (1) The communications about the initiative, on and off campus, are comparable to those for a capital campaign; (2) The initiative has an…

An essay encouraging and illustrating possibilities for faculty involvement in college planning and decision making is followed by commentaries by Harmon C. Dunathan and George Keller. Among the issues addressed are program review, personnel strategies, and situations of financial exigency. (MSE)

Campus child care centers can help fulfill a variety of institutional missions while also redressing the causes and effects of some of today's pressing societal needs. Centers can be used for supervised observation, supervised participation, student teaching, and curriculum development. (MLW)

An interview with the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) covers the relevance of his college education to his work, problems and processes of administering the NEH in a time of limited resources, peer-review, opportunities for teachers seeking NEH support, a successful summer seminar program for secondary school teachers,…