The Specialist-on-Site (S.O.S.) program was developed to train a teacher from each of a school district's campuses to design, deliver, and evaluate site-based staff development activities. Feedback from participants revealed the power of collaborative interaction. Teachers within schools viewed each other as resources for professional enrichment.…

The Open University course on roles and relationships enables people engaged in helping others to strengthen theoretical understanding of what they do and why and to reflect on ways to improve practice. (SK)

Five long-term CALICO members and contributors to the realities of computer-assisted language learning discuss software evaluation; research and pedagogy in language, literature, and culture learning; certification of accomplishments; and relationships with other related professional organizations. (LB)

Argues that building partnerships between public schools and universities, such as the one between Tulane University and Live Oak Middle School in New Orleans, must become a priority. Outlines how a middle school can develop a mentorship program with a nearby university. (HB)

A discussion of the relationship between campus public relations professionals and media relations consultants looks at why consultants are used, the best ways to use a consultant, searching for an agency, establishing fees and parameters, and making the relationship succeed. (MSE)

An informal survey of 19 media relations firms whose clients include schools, colleges, and universities revealed that institutions can contribute most to the success of the consultant-client relationship by planning, establishing goals and expectations, building a team, and identifying worthwhile stories. (MSE)

The new student affairs employee is counseled about initial adjustment to a new job and institution. Recommendations are made for gathering information about the job and the available job-specific and general resources, establishing relationships with students and other professionals, and tending to personal well-being. (MSE)

The ways in which in which collaborative learning was used in a recent study, "Changing and Learning in the Lives of Physicians," are reviewed, and some advantages and disadvantages of collaborative research in continuing medical education and physician performance are discussed. Cross-disciplinary sharing is seen as effective in increasing…

Describes a process of collaboration between an elementary school teacher and a researcher during a case study of teacher planning. Explores the separate and mutual courses of meaning construction in both planning and collaboration. Demonstrates how educational research definitions and, hence, research options can be broadened and diversified in…

The working relationship between the college president and personnel director requires constant attention and monitoring to be successful. The president must be able to rely on the personnel director for attention to both mechanical details and human issues to create the proper learning and teaching environment on campus. (MSE)

Although multidisciplinary research teams are well-equipped to attack complex problems, actually succeeding in such endeavors is not easy. This paper explores problems that may arise in multidisciplinary research teams, develops a grounded theory, and offers suggestions to help teams reach their goals. It also offers advice to administrators for…

Considers different approaches toward fund raising of institutional development professionals and finance officers, including different goals and different measurement standards. Urges higher education institutions to bridge the communication gap by working to understand each other's perspective, accommodate each other's needs, and agreeing to…

Sketches an abstracted and idealized profession of English--a profession that fosters no politics and entails no internal conflicts, and whose members care about language and its uses, about the transmission of knowledge and skills, and a capacity for pleasure in the text. (RS)

Presents a diary of one month spent by a professional-track professor as an adjunct. Discusses the large salary decrease, the turmoil of job insecurity, and the "invisibility" of adjunct faculty. Asserts that although faculty should feel bound together by the work they have chosen, the class rift between tenure-track and adjunct faculty has…

Discusses ways to create and sustain strong teaching teams, including matching curriculum goals, complementary professional strengths, and exercise of autonomy. Elaborates the administrator's role in nurturing and supporting teamwork. (JPB)