The founder of "Teach for America," a nonprofit organization to recruit capable but undirected college seniors for a two-year commitment to teaching, has successfully brought in a corps of graduates with a high level of commitment, academic excellence, varied skills, and a better minority representation to teach in difficult-to-staff…

Eight challenges for the future of academic advising are discussed: the development of research to provide evidence that quality advising assists in producing positive outcomes; to arouse campus decision-makers to action, to defend the value of advising during decline and retrenchment, to elevate the status of advising, etc. (MLW)