The academic style (conduct) of academic circles has become a hot topic in the media. This article presents an interview conducted by "China Newsweek" with Vice Director Yuan Zhenguo of the Ministry of Education, Social Sciences Department. In this interview, Zhenguo talks about the Ministry of Education's plan to set up such…

The authors, five junior scholars at the University of North Texas' College of Education, describe their collaborative efforts to develop their skills in one method of qualitative research: in-depth, oral history interviewing. Outcomes included understanding the importance of rapport between interviewer and interviewee, of ensuring that the…

Response to criticism of law students' legal research skills makes three observations: (1) the legal research curriculum may be adequate already; (2) the faculty reward structure favors research and works against teaching; and (3) law school administrators will not change the legal research curriculum until they feel pressure to do so. (MSE)

In partial response to a recent best-seller decrying the so-called "ProfScam" scenario whereby professors downgrade undergraduate teaching in favor of often irrelevant research, the paper offers guidance to accounting faculty seeking to undertake meaningful publishable research. Recommendations are given for four stages in the research process:…

Colleges and universities have much to gain from developing a teaching library, whose core component is a comprehensive bibliographic instruction program. The library's active involvement in academic programs leads to improved student skills and faculty productivity, and thus to the institution's educational quality and faculty and student…

Argues that the claim that the community college has a unique teaching mission has been used to exempt community college faculty from participation in scholarly discourse. Suggests encouraging community college faculty scholarship that meets the test of external scrutiny would offer faculty an appropriate voice in higher education. (Contains 28…

The ways in which the university library can serve the honors student through the cooperation of professional librarians and faculty are discussed. A close alliance with the university librarian can help promote successful structure and student experiences with research. Attention should be focused on the development of problem-solving skills that…

Three education professors returning to the classroom as students in a graduate course on research methods analyze the experience through a collaborative project in which they examined themselves as researchers. Recommendations are offered about the use of such collaborative reflection as a means of professional development. (MSE)

This essay addresses the serious problem for bibliographic instruction programs posed by teaching faculty who possess few skills in library research. Discussion covers faculty and student experience with bibliographic research, the bookish professor and other myths, difficulties of library instruction, and implications for future planning.…

Course-integrated library instruction is seen as coming into its own, but faculty support is needed for curriculum-integrated instruction. Careful planning of library requirements by an entire faculty can give students the library skills necessary for professional and life-long learning. (Author/MLW)

Last year, Franci, a very knowledgeable Lakota scholar and writer, arrived to teach at this author's university. The author's friend, Malea, had left, so she was pleased to see another American Indian face in the department. The past year it had become clear that Indians faced many hardships at the university, but most strikingly they continued to…

University libraries are realizing that in an age of increasing electronic access to information, providing electronic cataloging to complement other electronic services is essential. (MSE)

Discusses professional parameters of librarianship that guided major revision of content and methods of bibliographic instruction program at Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington). Highlights include rotation of librarians into full-time teaching, characteristics of team teaching, emphasis on investigating problem solving in the course, and…

The state of scholarship and research in social work is analyzed with regard to research methods found in the core literature, faculty and doctoral scholarly productivity, graduate research curricula, and use of scholarship by practitioners. Challenges for improving social work research training, scholarly production, and knowledge transmission…

Peer review of college faculty is discussed from the perspective of an administrator who reviews promotion and tenure documents at the central university level. Attention is directed to: the rationale for peer review, qualities of an effective teacher, sources of information available to colleagues, an example of a peer review system at The Ohio…