The NEA Higher Education Advocate April 2009
Multiple Mentors
Mentoring has become a widely used element in the process of introducing a new generation of scholars to our campuses. But for the most part, campuses and departments have used a top-down model. The authors of this issue’s Thriving in Academe have been experimenting on their campus with a different approach. Their program, which they’d like you to consider, is flexible, faculty-driven, and sees mentoring as a two-way street.
Inside this Issue:
| anc_dyn_links . . . About President Obama’s plan to eliminate the Family Federal Education Loan Program and originate all loans out of the government's Direct Loan Program. |
| anc_dyn_links In April, I attended the California Faculty Association’s spring Assembly in Sacramento, where CFA members celebrated a recent lobbying trip to Washington DC. |
| anc_dyn_links NEA’s 27th annual higher education conference focused on the importance of the Association’s higher ed members staying politically active. |
| anc_dyn_links The annual Freshman Survey by the Higher Education Research Institution (HERI) at UCLA finds college freshmen are tuned in to politics more than ever. |
| anc_dyn_links Public higher education stands to benefit substantially from President Obama’s stimulus package of $575 billion in spending and $212 billion in tax cuts. |
| anc_dyn_links On March 10, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) determined that the adjunct faculty at Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) had voted to join the full-time faculty association... |
| anc_dyn_links This section is intended to promote ever more effective teaching and learning in higher education through dialogue among colleagues. |
| anc_dyn_links President Obama has named Martha J. Kanter, the chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, in the Silicon Valley area of California, under secretary of education. |
| anc_dyn_links As universities weigh the costs of an operation that mashes trees, treats wood pulp with sulfuric acid, floods pollution into groundwater, etches toxic ink on paper... |
| anc_dyn_links When was the last time you gave your students a choice? A real one: a choice of topics or learning methods. |
April, 2009
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