In their introductory article, Morrow and Beckstead (2004 [this issue]) discuss the decades-long controversy surrounding therapeutic attempts to change homosexual to heterosexual orientation ("conversion" or "reparative" therapy). Despite the efforts to resolve this controversy, it shows no signs of abating. The articles in this issue, especially…

Of all challenges facing open-door community colleges, none is more important than the need to renew and improve teaching quality in order to accommodate increasingly diversified student populations. Several policies have been particularly helpful to open-door institutions in improving student retention and achievement, including the following:…

Suggests an alternative to typical practices of new staff orientation: one week of paid orientation without direct responsibility for children so they can experience the program vision in action and practice assuming their role within it. Details strategies involved in this approach and encourages directors to calculate the cost of turnover in…

Outlines two schools of thought on personnel management--staffing and career management--and provides guidelines on how they can be integrated to solve human resources problems. (IRT)

Reviews concepts of career indecision and career decidedness. Specifies four subtypes: developmental indecision, chronic indecision, hypervigilant decidedness, and vigilant decidedness. Highlights when career goal setting is beneficial and when it can be useless or harmful. (SK)

A common problem faced by new teachers is lack of supervisory support and learning on the job through trial and error can often dishearten the rookie enough to abandon the job and often the profession. Suggestions are offered on how to redress this problem and a starting point could be the implementation of what the Alliance for Excellent…

Traditionally, new board members have taken up roles that were established and well-defined long ago. But globalization swiftly and utterly changed that mindset. Institutions now are directly affected by events occurring thousands of miles away, and it is no longer possible to rely solely on long-standing, accepted board practices to provide good…

As D'Augelli and Grossman point out, there is an underrepresentation in LGB research of "youth who have had sexual experiences with both males and females." Most of the information on bisexuality has been obtained from studies with adult samples, and it is "unclear to what extent a separate bisexual cultural identity is consolidated…

It is generally acknowledged that school discipline is failing. Through a comparison of two very different disciplinary situations, I inquire into possible causes of failure and conditions of success. The argument is made that if discipline is to succeed, students must believe in and identify with the goals it is designed to support. Questions are…

Discusses the manager's role in staff development and the benefits that accrue to managers who develop their people. (JOW)

Provides a critical evaluation of Clive Beck's Reflective Approach to values education, analyzing its ethical assumptions and questioning its philosophical justifiability. Feels that Beck muddles the distinction between moral and nonmoral values and that the Reflective Approach is relativistic and inadequate to deal with interpersonal conflict.…

In this response, the authors dispel interpretation of their critical review of research on performance-approach goals as support for a dichotomous perspective of achievement goal theory. Challenges the suggestion that accepting recent research findings and adopting a multiple goals perspective constitutes a theoretical revision of the assumption…

Erik Weinhenmayer, the first blind man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, shares what he has learned about teamwork, leadership, and overcoming limitations. (GCP)

The Goals Review and Organizing Workbook (GROW) is a structured exercise based on personal construct psychology. It is designed to increase self-understanding for making career-related decisions. (SK)

On various campuses, including the author's, "safe space" stickers are used to designate offices supposedly free of homophobia. The author critiques this practice, pointing out that it still privileges the white heterosexual subject while also obscuring connections between sexuality, gender, and race. (Contains 10 notes.)