Describes expansion of a system at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, which evaluates professional behaviors of its third- and fourth-year students, to first- and second-year students in order to catch earlier deficiencies in professionalism. Discusses the system, lessons learned, and future plans to expand the system…

Who owns a new science course once it has been developed? If teachers teach a course in their own way, does this transformation improve or deform it? The development of "Advancing Physics" provokes some fresh thought about these questions. (Author/MM)

Describes an example of intergenerational theatre--the annual production at the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre, Ferrum College, Virginia. Notes that in addition to four plays for adults, one play is for family audiences and includes area children. Suggests the program offers patrons quality entertainment, gives unique experience to area children, and…

Describes Stanford University's campus safety plan, asserting that it allows officials to act quickly, preserve lives, protect the institution's intellectual property, and maintain its academic mission. (EV)

Explores how college programs for prisoners have won new support as research shows that they reduce the rates of recidivism. Includes descriptions of several such programs. (EV)

States that human service practitioners can further the development of curriculums and programs and thus help meet future challenges in human service delivery. Reviews these practitioners' involvement since the 1960s, and discusses five strategies used by one institution to increase its involvement with practitioners. (Author/MKA)

Describes how a University of Texas program in community college leadership has educated a who's who of community college leaders, although some observers question the rigor of its curriculum. (EV)

Evaluates the progress of a European university's international cooperation in two projects related to engineering education from the point of their original plans, development, evolution of partnership, and problems that arose and were solved. Focuses on the expertise obtained, methods of assessment, persistent links and their influence on…

Describes the Counselor-In-Residence program at the University of Arkansas, which was designed as a model to provide counseling for residential college students who otherwise might not take advantage of the services of a traditional university counseling center. (GCP)

A mortgage broker. A public school teacher. A retired elevator company employee. It's not likely that anyone would consider individuals in these jobs to be prospective journalists. Nevertheless, officials with the Freedom Forum's Diversity Institute last summer found three such individuals and several others, and trained them in an unique program…

When Gary Hamilton became principal of Monongahela Elementary Center (MEC) over 10 years ago, he wanted to establish a nature trail on the four acres of wooded area on the east side of the school. "Children today are into so many structured activities they are denied opportunities to learn about nature firsthand," he said. "I want kids to…

After searching for an innovative and interactive project that would not only involve the students, but would also be a benefit to the scientific community and to the natural world, the author created an exotic frog nursery-a long-term project that approached science not as a subject full of categories and definitions, but as an ongoing process in…

In this article, the author talks about Destination ImagiNation (DI), the world's largest creative problem solving (CPS) program, and describes how this program helps students. In many schools and communities, DI supplements or even serves as the talented and gifted program. CPS is also popular and appropriate for homeschool families because it…

Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, has established an adjunct mentoring process in response to its growing number of adjunct faculty. Lesley's adjunct corps serves in Lesley programs offered both on and off campus. The primary goals of the mentoring program are to support excellence in teaching, and to engage in mentoring that…

A series of spreadsheet modeling exercises constructed as part of a new upper-level elective course on solid state materials and surface chemistry is described. The spreadsheet exercises are developed to provide students with the opportunity to interact with the conceptual framework where the role of the density of states and the Fermi-Dirac…