A useful or adaptable strategy for coping with the limitations of a small college speech department is the process of developing a symbiotic relationship among grants, publications, and teaching. While using their training, special interests, and institutional setting, educators can (1) draw on the course materials and teaching experiences from existing courses or new courses in order to formulate research ideas; (2) tap the financial resources of the home institution, private foundations, and government grants in order to help underwrite the cost of expensive research; and (3) target appropriate journals or conventions, which may not be speech related, in order to maximize on the symbiosis between an article or paper and the journals' or conventions' special interests. (HOD)