To establish and maintain supportive relationships with its host community, a college must develop strong campus plans and projects. Cohesiveness, clear communication, and courtesy are good foundations, and a good campus plan includes a mission statement, community knowledge, goals, target audiences, and specific town-gown activities.…

An international forum for exchange of ideas about school facilities led to the founding of the Programme on Educational Building within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Challenged by new demands on building, new curricula, new teaching styles, and the rate of change, the program's current work sets out to help…

The recently completed American School in Aberdeen, Scotland, serves the children of U.S. oil company employees and other Scottish and foreign children. Describes the program manager's role, explains how to select the architect and contractor, and offers advice on what to remember when building abroad. (MLF)

A review of studies of mentoring for new college faculty suggests practical guidelines for maximizing the mentoring experience. Recommendations include "cataloging" (of past, current, and planned activities); group mentoring; and application of a theory stressing involvement, regimen, solving the right problem, and social networking. (DB)

School effectiveness depends, in part, on committed teachers exercising positive followership skills transactionally with dedicated leaders. The paper recommends that teacher education programs help students develop followership skills necessary for effective teaching, noting that leaders come from the ranks of followers. (SM)

Areas in which the priorities and concerns of the college admissions officer and the college faculty often conflict are examined, including development of a well-rounded student body, statistical comparisons of student characteristics among institutions, and the image projected by the admissions office in its marketing. (MSE)

This study explores some common assumptions and issues related to experienced teacher mentoring of new teachers. Five mentors from Marin County (California) high and elementary schools were interviewed about: successes, nonsuccesses, support and training for mentors, suggestions for new mentors, and guidelines for setting up a mentor program. (IAH)

In a survey, 1,851 registered nurses evaluated 232 internists' humanistic qualities, communication skills, and selected aspects of their clinical skills. Their ratings corresponded moderately with peer physician evaluations and had a common structure but were lower for several humanistic qualities. A reliable assessment required 11-15 nurses'…

Techniques for college public relations professionals to use in promoting a cooperative relationship with the student press are outlined. These include being available to students, having regular meetings, providing access to administrators, providing information that creates context for news, and releasing news directly to the student press. (MSE)

Five college and university fund-raising professionals discuss ways in which uncoordinated solicitations of gifts from the same prospective donor(s) by different schools or departments can be avoided by planning, coordination, and communication. Advantages and disadvantages of centralized and decentralized administrative approaches are considered.…

A discussion of conflict resolution in student activities planning and administration, presented in radio talk-show format, looks at a variety of issues, including making confrontation positive and effective, conflicts between campus activities programs and artists, student involvement in activities planning, the advisor's role, and contracts.…

A college chief advancement officers describes the qualities that make a president an ally in fund raising. These qualities include vision and leadership, commitment to the campus, commitment to advancement, integrity, honesty, perseverance, patience, optimism, communication skills, energy, willingness to learn, humor, creativity, understanding of…

Working relationships between vocational English-as-a-Second-Language (VESL) teachers and their vocational counterparts for technical content-related language teaching were studied. The main unexpected finding was that the most effective vocational instruction resulted from the vocational teachers' participation in language-oriented staff…

Survey data from 21 otolaryngologists (70 percent return rate) and 32 speech-language pathologists (46 percent return rate) in Maine found differences in opinions between the 2 professional groups concerning referral patterns and treatment of vocal nodules in children and adults. Attitudinal problems were found to hamper a teamwork approach for…

An informal survey of ghostwriters confirmed that communication is vital to success, with strategies including careful listening, getting to know the speaker well, understanding the audience, accurately reflecting the speaker's viewpoint, and fine tuning the mechanics and tone of the speech. (MSE)