This paper examines the opportunities of combining teaching, research, and service and highlights the inherent challenges of such an approach. By offering evidence on how professors at small liberal arts colleges can combine their research, teaching, and service responsibilities in ways that enrich student learning, the paper takes a role in…

This paper focuses on a specific topic and contention: Non-linear editing earns its place in a liberal arts setting because it is a superior tool to teach the concepts of how moving picture discourse is constructed through editing. The paper first points out that most students at small liberal arts colleges are not going to wind up working…

Researchers at small universities encounter problems hampering their research productivity. Canada's Mount Saint Vincent University increased its faculty's research output by two means: the administration showed its support by devoting resources to research, and the faculty learned to compete successfully for grants. (Author/MSE)

Institutional advancement is discussed as a leadership concept for small colleges. It is suggested that the leadership-based institution advances with a focus on people and product, vision, the understanding that produces trust, and the commitment that engenders service. A checklist for recognizing leadership-based institutional advancement is…

The effective use of volunteers, in particular parents and college faculty, is advocated. Adrian College's Parents Council involves parents in securing internships, contacting prospective students, giving feedback on issues as well as fund raising. A faculty-development officer partnership is suggested in which professors help attract grant funds.…

Results are presented of a national survey gathering data on selected characteristics of master's degree in education programs at public and private colleges with under 10,000 students. (JD)

The nature of institutional research in small, private colleges is examined. It is suggested that institutional researchers in small colleges are responsible for their own professional development and must generate their own plans and learning situations. (Author/SF)

Argues that the scholar-teacher, in the true sense of someone who works not only to diffuse knowledge through teaching but to advance knowledge through scholarship, is slowly but surely becoming an endangered species at American colleges. Suggests this trend is to due the tendency to see scholarship and teaching as unrelated. (TB)

Argues that many communication programs continue to offer narrow, industry-oriented sequences that do not prepare students for 21st-century careers or for a future filled with jobs that do not currently exist. Discusses getting away from sequences oriented toward industry, small colleges, a plan for a new curriculum, and looking at the long term.…

Management theories tend to simplify the complex needs, desires, motives, and abilities of teachers who are also counselors, researchers, planners, and parliamentarians. The task of the academic administrator is to seek coherence of goals and a commitment to student development by focusing disparate visions toward common ends. (MLW)

For small, private institutions, the real estate pooled income fund can be ideal for constructing new facilities, especially if the facility will produce revenue. Even a public or well-endowed private institution may have a unique project for which a pooled income fund may be a nontraditional funding solution. (MSE)

Comprehensive advising in college is a logical place to begin the process of life planning. The approach results in education that is both liberating and holistic. It requires student development personnel with academic credentials, active faculty support, active student participation, and development of appropriate tools and processes. (MSE)

Small Canadian universities are extremely important agents of socioeconomic change for their regions. They focus on excellence in undergraduate education and applied rather than "heavy" research, filling roles the larger urban universities do not care to play in their place. They can be compared to U.S. liberal arts colleges. (MSE)

Presents an analysis of the organizational culture at Olivet College in Michigan. Discusses the legacy, roots, and history of the institution; the recent organizational history; and the changing nature of the organization at the time of a racial conflict in the spring of 1992 that gained both state and national attention. (SR)

Examined perceptions of cheating held by 480 college students and 48 faculty members at 2 small colleges. Eighty-nine percent of students surveyed admitted they had cheated. Attitudinal variables were better at predicting cheating than were background variables. Faculty agreed on a definition of cheating yet did not agree on how to deal with…