How can new faculty find success in academia and what can universities do to support them? In this book, the author demonstrates how a coaching-focused stance toward faculty development can improve equitable conditions within the university and contribute to faculty retention and well-being. For faculty and graduate students, this book emphasizes…

This how-to manual provides a structured framework for developing a comprehensive teaching-learning philosophy from articulation through implementation to evaluation--and then reactivation. Using professional literature and teaching-learning experiences, the authors provide pragmatic steps for using a grounded philosophy to inform, engage, and…

Few things can impact the success of students at community colleges more than budget and planning. Faculty must therefore have a basic comprehension of budget processes and of faculty roles in them. This paper aims to serve various purposes. It provides a primer on how the system-wide budgeting process works prior to colleges receiving monies from…

The "Roadmap for Educator Preparation Reform" is a planning framework intended to guide and support educator preparation programs (EPPs) to integrate evidence-based and high-leverage practices within and across coursework and field experiences. The roadmap highlights the major guidelines that EPPs should consider throughout the reform…

Suggestions for teaching college students the necessary bibliographic skills are offered to college librarians and faculty members. Focus is on cooperation between faculty and librarians, and skill development that is deliberately built into the curriculum. (JMD)

This manual was designed to provide a communications link between Clark Technical College (Ohio) and its part-time faculty. It is distributed to all part-time teachers as a method of providing them with information on institutional policy, student relations, and college rules and regulations. It includes information on (1) the college (its…

This manual, developed to aid in the counseling of handicapped students, is divided according to the various institutional components with which the mainstreamed disabled student deals during the college years. The first section outlines the role of the counseling office in recruiting and preparing for handicapped students, and in serving them…

This bulletin is published as a much-need service to young men and women considering preparation for teaching. In it they will find information and judgments on duties, requirements, opportunities, satisfactions and annoyances in teaching as a life work. Because essential data has changed, the current report is written to describe the occupation…