A handbook of information for foreign students, visiting scholars, and visiting faculty members is presented by Murray State University (Kentucky). The following topics are covered: academic life, automobiles, the Center for International Programs, child care, credential (transcript) evaluation, emergencies, employment, English language, finances,…

The University of Mississippi's modern language department chairman discusses the chair's role in achieving faculty diversity and offers guidelines for hiring minority faculty, including realistic self-examination and portrayal, targeting all minorities, developing a working relationship with counterpart departments in other institutions, visiting…

The State University of New York Program on Faculty Retraining is described. Retraining is defined as preparation to move from one academic field to another or from one subfield of a discipline to another. It is distinguished from faculty development, involving the acquisition of new skills or knowledge applicable to one's ongoing…

State comprehensive universities are caught between the research university model and the liberal arts and community college models, unsure of their identity. The quest for status has resulted in faculty dissatisfaction, loss of institutional self-esteem, and disparagement of scholarship. Five approaches to developing distinct and appropriate…

This volume offers personal reflections and professional advice on governing a state university system from the former president of the University of Wisconsin (UW) System Board of Regents, Laurence A. Weinstein. The book is organized into 10 chapters. Chapter I outlines Weinstein's background and his vision of the role of university system…

This guidebook, prepared by a faculty committee at Michigan State University (MSU) in 1995-96, is intended to encourage discussion of quality outreach among faculty, staff, administrators, and university collaborators. Its specific purpose is to develop an understanding of what constitutes quality outreach, to enhance unit-level planning for…

Recommendations are presented on how to improve trustee selection in public colleges and universities. It is assumed that the health of public institutions depends on the competence of their trustees, that there has been an erosion in the autonomy of public governing boards, and that lack of diversity in board membership limits its perspectives.…

Workshops for academic advisers that were held by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University are described to assist staff in career planning, counseling, and student services. Developed by the University Counseling Services, the workshops series for faculty and invited academic advisers, was designed to: promote collaboration between…

This planning document for South Dakota's public universities emphasizes that the primary mission of the state's colleges and universities is to utilize available resources to provide an environment that supports students in their intellectual, cultural, and ethical development and affirms the State Board's commitment to diverse campus communities…

For this report on human relations and discrimination at the San Francisco State University (SFSU), campus policies impacting on students, faculty, and the university as a whole were collected. The first section reprints policies affecting students and contains a statement of student rights and responsibilities, student disciplinary procedures,…