Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing (2nd ed.).
Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing (2nd ed.) edited by Kathleen B. Gaberson PhD, RN, CNOR, ANEF, and Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF; New York: Springer Publishing, 2006; 308 pages, $50 From a directed discipline, nursing has evolved dramatically as a profession. Today's nurses hold advanced...

Academic freedom at the Dawn of a New Century: How Terrorism, Governments, and Culture Wars Impact Free Speech.
Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a New Century: How Terrorism, Governments, and Culture Wars Impact Free Speech, edited by Evan Gerstmann and Matthew J. Streb. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. 241 pp. ISBN 0804754446. J. DOUGLAS TOMA, University of Georgia...

A parenting odyssey: shouldering grief, welcoming joy.
My professorial life and personal life form an odyssey so intertwined and public it's impossible to separate them from each other. Both of my worlds have been rewarding, exhausting, and frustrating; combined, they're even more so. I began my academic career as a tenure track professor of Communication at...

Academic momhood: in for the long haul.
I've been a mother for most of my academic career. I had two children while in graduate school, the third while teaching as an ABD instructor, and a fourth while I was a tenure-track assistant professor. It has been a long haul to this point in my career and...

Research, publishing, and tenure among Texas biologists.
This study examined opinions toward research among biology faculty in Texas institutions of higher learning. The objectives of the study were to determine what the viewpoints of Texas biology faculty were toward research according to faculty rank and institutional type. Mailed questionnaire approach was used in this study to...

Tenure practices in allied health and nursing.
Abstract This manuscript presents an in depth review of the literature on the tenure policies and practices in allied health and nursing education. Specifically, the manuscript summarized the existing published studies that investigated the educational requirements for tenure; promotion and tenure rate; the role of scholarship in...

Call me Nestor.
HAVE YOUR ever played a game in which participants identify themselves with an animal, biblical figure, athlete or Greek hero, and others try to guess the connection? I learned how hazardous this can be not because of the hero I chose but because someone identified me with one. ...

Ankle-deep in danger.
IN OCTOBER NBC's Today show covered the floods in New Jersey with a live shot of correspondent Michelle Kosinski, who was paddling a canoe. As she was paddling, "two men walked between her and the camera--making it appear the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep" (as was...

Care, career, and academe: heeding the calls of a new professoriate.
The career-self experiences time as linear and the career itself as a measured line, other parts of the self following along. Time is objectified in the academic vita, which grows longer with each article and book, and not with each vegetable garden, camping trip, political meeting, or child. One's...

The evolution of instruction in grant writing and research in the libraries at the University of Utah.
Introduction In academic medicine and health sciences grant writing is a skill that is often self taught or acquired informally by trial and error. Nevertheless, it is a critical skill for graduate students, postdoctoral students, academic fellows, and new tenure-track faculty. Along with publishing and the ability...