Academia's formal rules are published in faculty handbooks, but its implicit rules are often difficult to discern. This text offers practical advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career. Leading academics share the lessons they have learned by experience.
Psychology's Commitment to Excellence in Accreditation
This volume traces the history of accreditation of programmes in psychology, from the late 1940s to the turn of the century. In doing so, it puts accreditation into focus, examining the challenges of coming to consensus with a variety of groups, each one having its own definition of excellence.
Is the Internet the springboard which will take universities into a new age, or a threat to their existence? Will dotcom degrees create new opportunities for those previously excluded, or lead them into a digital dead-end? From UCLA to Columbia, digital technologies have brought about rapid and sweeping changes in the life of the ......
A guide to mentoring relationships written exclusively for graduate students. Authors Johnson and Huwe draw directly from their own experiences as mentor and protege to advise students on finding a mentor and maintaining the mentor relationship throughout graduate school.
Provides practical guidance to plan, organize, and run a teaching skills program for medical residents. This book offers materials for course use, including modules for use with paediatric residents, teaching clinical procedures, works rounds, and role play. It also includes evaluation forms that can be customized to fit a particular program.
With over 200 practical career counselling strategies, this is a comprehensive guide to the field. It explores the pros and cons of career classes and workshops, the emotional and spiritual elements involved in choosing a career, the utilization of the Internet as a counselling aid, and more.
The university, as a core institution of democratic society, is increasingly threatened by the intrusion of big business. Can faculty members remain independent under such heavy corporate influence? This book not only describes the threat of corporatisation, but provides real-life strategies, campaigns, and solutions to the problem.
A No-Nonsense Guide for Clinicians, Educators,Administrators, and Lawyer
This manual outlines how the ADA applies to a wide range of mental and physical impairments within higher education settings, it outlines a series of fundamental principles and actual clinical/administrative procedures.
Over the past fifteen years, a college education has become increasingly valuable in the labor market. As a result, the stakes have been raised in the debate over college admissions and student financial aid.
