It is argued that through the collegiate experience, the future college professor is socialized to a conventional teaching role, which is grounded in a traditional instructional model, and that efforts to increase instructional productivity must be cognizant of and consistent with this role and model. Empirical data support the hypothesis.…

This project was inspired by a belief that too little attention is paid by the academic structure to its responsibility within the school experience of developing "caring" individuals. The project's goal was to test the idea that "Caring Quality" could be "taught". (Author/RK)

In addition to providing a larger number of investigators who can solve current problems, developing and supporting a clinical scientist training program can provide better clinicians. Specific academic and technological courses are cited along with mentor roles and time factors involved in training clinical scientists. (Author/LBH)

The authors discuss the growing number of minority students in vocational agriculture programs. They argue for increased minority teachers to serve as role models for these students. In addition, they urge agricultural educators at all levels to encourage minority student involvement, participation, and career interest in agriculture. (CH)

Describes the "Replicating Jobs in Business and Industry for Persons with Disabilities" project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project identifies successful role models for disabled youth and employers who have made accommodations for disabled employees. Includes guidelines for advocates of the disabled. (CH)

This article examines the influence of mentors and role models, beginning at the period of occupational choice and continuing through preparatory and practice entry phases. The author reports on an attrition study of 298 practical nursing students at an Indiana postsecondary institution that examined the influence of others in completing or not…

Provides a comprehensive view of the predoctoral internship for counseling psychologists. Delineates relevant issues in intern training. Attempts to stimulate the field of counseling psychology to examine critically the effectiveness of internship training programs. (Author/ABB)

Recognizing the need for more active learning experiences and appropriate after-school activities for 11- to 14-year-olds, the Early Adolescent Helper Program has designed and tested a model program. Seminars and internships prepare students for placement, which is frequently in child-care or senior centers. (JMM)

Discusses the influence of the artist role model on art education, examining the extent to which other models are given credence. Suggests that art educators examine the limiting factors within art education so that a more inclusive approach, which would be more responsive to student needs, could be developed. (GEA)

Describes how to balance existing traditional male-oriented literature selections with readings that present the female experience, the female protagonist, and the female perspective of female writers. Includes a list of 45 books. (EL)

A course in community pharmacy management that involves community pharmacy managers in the instruction of the course found a high degree of pharmacist interest in course projects and in participation in the program. (MSE)

Sought to describe and categorize specific processes by which friends serve to influence emerging life structures of early adulthood. Five categories were developed from open-ended interviews of 34 young adults between 20 and 28 years of age. These categories describe friends in the roles of models, active agents for change, reactors, interactors,…

Some of the barriers to athletic participation by disabled people, particularly girls and women, are examined in this article. Ways the situation may be improved by physical educators, program directors, and participants are suggested. (MT)

This study utilized a social learning framework to test the hypothesis that adolescents who have tried smoking in the past differ from those who have never smoked on several factors that theoretically place them at higher risk for beginning to smoke again. Implications of the findings for the design of school-based smoking prevention programs are…