Responds to earlier issue of "Counseling Psychologist" on new and early professionals in academia. As new professional herself, the author discusses specific methodological flaws, data not included, and access and opportunity to be represented, focusing particularly on these issues within academia. (NB)

Focuses on developing a conceptual framework for the mentoring process. The model is based on the premise that mentoring is not a single event in the life of a worker but rather several events with several different levels of mentoring. (Author)

A Career Project involves both life tasks and personal themes. Pursuing a project yields accomplishments with implications for future projects; cultivates personal traits, virtues, or skills; helps integrate parts into a whole; and transforms activities into ends in themselves. (SK)

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) constitute only 3 percent of U.S. colleges and universities, yet they enroll 28 percent of all African American students in higher education and educate 40 percent of the black Americans who earn doctorates or first professional degrees. Just fifteen HBCUs accounted for half of the institutions…

In a somewhat "tongue-in-cheek" style, 10 rules are outlined to serve as a guide for college professors to follow to become successful academic "princes." The rules are based on Machiavelli's "The Prince." (MD)

Research has led to greater understanding of the career choices and needs of gifted and talented individuals and identification of appropriate career assessment instruments and interventions. Gifted girls/women and members of minority groups have special career development needs to be considered. (SK)

Addresses the trend toward career insecurity and career change and the qualities and techniques needed for successful change. Profiles people who have made radical career shifts successfully. (JOW)

Examines the challenges to environmental professionals in seeking career enhancement during economic upturns and greater government regulations. (MDH)

A mentoring evaluation method that is both a learning tool and a measurement tool involves (1) assessing performance in the roles of communicator, counselor, coach, advisor, broker, referral agent, and advocate; and (2) evaluating on a continuum the impact of mentoring discussions. (JOW)

Chronicles the business rationale, the cross-functional commitment, and the process of designing and launching a well-integrated career development program at Monsanto. (JOW)

Physicians have characteristics that may limit their responses to today's challenges and make it more difficult for them to seek career counseling. Once they learn how to allow their view of the world to change, new opportunities will open up. (JOW)

Describes the evolution of the Adult Career Concerns Inventory into an instrument that assesses adults' awareness of tasks associated with career adaptability. Practical applications and future research directions are discussed. (SK)

A systematic mentoring approach combines old and new concepts from organizational learning, including intentional learning, failure and success, and storytelling. Mentoring should be a process of mature development and a joint venture, with a learning contract that aligns the mentor, proteges, and the proteges' manager. (JOW)

Suggests that effective career development requires changes in organizational systems as well as personal responsibility. Offers steps to manage both. (JOW)

On 28 November 2006 Russia observes the one-hundredth anniversary of Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev. By an edict of President V.V. Putin 2006 has been designated the year of D.S. Likhachev. A scientist of encyclopedic scope and a renowned researcher into Old Russian literature, Academician Likhachev became, starting in the second half of the 1980s,…