An overview of mentoring (including culture- and gender-neutral suggestions for all mentors and mentees) offers advice on guiding graduate students and young faculty in the humanities through the shoals of preparation for, and then work (mostly teaching) in, academe. Author sees mentoring as a pragmatic and altruistic "not a normative" activity,…

This article examines the plight of adjunct university faculty and urges new policies to express appreciation for their contributions to the teaching profession. A response from an adjunct faculty member at Hunter College, City University of New York, follows. (one reference) (KM)

Describes the involvement of a high school English teacher in an isolated and poor county in West Virginia with the West Virginia Writing Project and how she was able to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. (SR)

Consultants and clients take on various roles when they engage in discussions about college teaching. There are several models applicable to this interaction. More attention should be focused, in both research and practice, on the interactive style of the consultant and client and its contribution to effective consultation. (MSE)

A discussion of the dental school administrator's mentoring role looks specifically at the administrator's responsibility in creating an environment fostering faculty growth and productivity. The mentoring administrator is a central, integral, and positive force within the department and school, using teaching, facilitating, and coaching rather…

Examines the parallels, and common goals and characteristics, between staff development and curriculum development and discusses the implications these parallels have for staff developers. (GLR)

Describes the current state of undergraduate academic advising in the field of communications, including procedures and practices. Questions whether some advising training should be provided for academics and how important the activity of academic advising really is for students. (HB)

Describes the use of paired experienced classroom teachers to form mentoring teams that teach one class, observe other master teachers, attend conferences, and prepare curriculum units, working out flexible schedules for teaching the class. Schools benefit from having two mentors without removing expert teachers from direct contact with students.…

Synthesis of literature on nursing faculty research productivity elicited four explanations for productivity with related strategies for enhancing research: (1) individual and psychological; (2) disciplinary affiliation; (3) reinforcement; and (4) cumulative advantage. (SK)

A study investigated the effectiveness of two methods, workshop and individualized consultation, for improving instruction of full professors of physics with substantial teaching experience. It is concluded that neither method is very effective and that substantial and continuous expert consultation and investment of time and effort are required.…

Describes the continuing clinical education component of nursing faculty practice and discusses its place within a hypothetical, broader context. Defines faculty practice as direct patient care provided by a nurse on a standing academic faculty and indicates the need among faculty for short-term continuing clinical education. (Author/JOW)

Provides 10 principles of inservice education, as prescribed by the Conference on English Education. Describes inservice education as a lifelong process by which reflective teachers build new knowledge. (HB)

Presents a list of 10 volumes of recent scholarship in the field of adolescent literature that are recommended by practicing teachers for professional development. Provides citations and lengthy reviews of each volume discussed. (HB)

Defines organizational development as a top-management-supported, organization-wide, long-range, planned process by which human resources are identified, used, and developed in ways that strengthen organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Discusses the need for organizational career development in technical community colleges. (Author/JOW)

Describes a project to implement an integrated curriculum in mathematics, science, and reading by promoting the professional growth of K-4 inservice teachers through a six-hour graduate course. Discusses implications for teacher educators, program administrators, teachers in K-4, and the children served by the educational system. Contains 19…