Calls for increased awareness of the self-representation, gender, labor, and intellectual property issues that surround faculty members' homepages, arguing that faculty members construct identity online in context of the university as workplace. Examines the homepages of 18 faculty members within English programs. Draws on research from…

Suggests that to be hired usually means that one happens to be the right person at the right place at the right time. Considers that none of the factors that lead to being hired is really in a job candidate's control. Suggests that when interviewing for a position "you just have to be yourself." (SG)

Offers some general principles for college faculty search committee members to follow. Analyzes the search process and discusses advertising and initial screening, preparing applications, setting up Modern Language Association (MLA) interviews, interviewing on campus, and negotiating an offer. (SG)

Intends for this statement to embody reasonable norms for ethical conduct in teaching, research, and related public service activities in the modern languages and literatures. Lists seven governing premises of the statement. Examines ethical conduct in academic relationships, discussing obligations to students, colleagues, staff members, the…

Surveyed faculty affairs personnel at U.S. medical schools. Found that schools support over four times as many offices of faculty affairs as faculty development. Core functions of faculty affairs offices include administrative support for appointments, promotions, and tenure committees; faculty information and policies; faculty governance…

Uses a framework of educational sociology to illustrate benefits and challenges of agricultural communications' relationships with agricultural education departments and private industry. Examines agricultural communications as an academic field and the influences of home department, journalism, and industry. Issues include graduate education…

Suggests that educational trends indicate that English departments should redefine faculty recruiting away from competing with other departments and toward competing with the other interests that seek public funding. (RS)

Describes a high school English department's successful efforts to define and shape their own peer assistance program. The program succeeded because it is voluntary, has received administrative support, and has evolved slowly and naturally. The program has communication, rehearsal, and awareness benefits and calls for a new kind of professional…

A survey of departments of internal medicine to assess information about requirements for ambulatory clinical experiences for medical students is discussed. The survey yielded information on status, reasons for ambulatory care training, characteristics, goals, structure, ratings, problems, and difficulties for students. (Author/MLW)

Offers advice to potential interviewees attending an MLA conference. Cautions the interviewee to arrive for the appointment early, but not to knock until the time of the appointment. Advises interviewees to answer questions briefly and to let the committee set the pace of the interview. (PA)

States that keeping a cool head when job interviewing on campus is a powerful bonus. Encourages the applicant to analyze the process in rhetorical terms. Discusses the purpose of the interview and the applicant as author and performer. Advises remembering who the audience is. Suggests applicants should carry a credit card for emergencies. (PA)

Presents six responses to an article in the same issue of this journal. Recommends closer contact between baccalaureate institutions and doctoral programs. Expresses a "hope for the new" in the form of more inventive candidates for assistant professorships. States that the conventional admissions process does not work as well for…

Describes how the Speech Communication Department at the University of Nebraska was targeted for elimination and survived. Addresses why it is necessary for the communication discipline to take an advocacy role, and provides thoughts about how departments can defend themselves from future attacks. (SR)

A study of 1,108 university administrators regarding perceived sources of occupational stress and whether they reflect both faculty and administrator roles of department chairs determined that stress comes from both roles. It was recommended that the professional characteristics of department chairs and the relationship of variables to stress…

Contends that public relations and advertising curriculums should be taken out of journalism/mass communication and/or business schools, and positioned as separate entities. (SR)