Beyond Teaching to Mentoring New Directions

As a result of rapid changes affecting higher education, educators face continuing challenges to meet their responsibilities and must reevaluate their interactions with students, both inside and outside the classroom. This new issue examines how educators might mentor their students. Covering a variety of disciplines, the authors discuss how to prepare students for more active and collaborative learning and how to help students develop different skills they will need to succeed. They also examine the effect of changing demographics, diverse student populations, and changing student expectations on mentoring. In the transition to a learning-focused environment with the student at the center of the endeavor, instructors will find this issue a helpful tool as they continue to play a major but changing role.This is the 85th issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Teaching and Learning.

REINARZ is currently director of the Academic Advising Center for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A) at the University of Michigan. She is also the director of Inteflex, a joint program of the college and the University of Michigan Medical School. As an adjunct associate professor of biology, she currently teaches a class on infectious diseases as part of the LS&A First Year Seminar Program. A recipient of the 1990 Carski Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award for the American Society of Microbiology, she has also published in the areas of undergraduate curriculum reform, and careers for science majors and academic advising. ERIC R. WHITE is executive director of the Division of Undergraduate Studies and affiliate assistant professor of education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been president of the Association of Deans and Directors of University Colleges and Undergraduate Divisions. He has held elected and appointed positions in the National Academic Advising Association and is currently treasurer of that organization. In 1998 the Division of Undergraduate Studies won the Oustanding Institutional Advising Award in recognition of innovative and exemplary practice in academic advising.

Editors' Notes

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Alice Goodwin Reinarz

Eric R. White

Mentoring as metaphor: An Opportunity for Innovation and Renewal

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Diane M. Enerson

Mentoring can be a useful metaphor for teaching because it derives its reference from the academy and focuses more on the learner and positive outcomes

Examining teaching within this context allows for a different analysis of teaching and the learning process and provides the opportunity for both renewal and change

Teaching Key Competencies in Liberal Arts Education

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Edie N. Goldenberg

The study of the liberal arts provides an exemplary arena for students to become active learners

The complexity of modern society requires a broader understanding of societal problems rather than a specialized one

Real problems are multifaceted and demand multifaceted solutions

Engaging students in the study of the liberal arts can provide a basis for lifelong learning and civic involvement

Mentoring for the Health Professions

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Timothy R. B. Johnson

Philip D. Settimi

Juliet L. Rogers

Mentoring can provide a new model for working with students seeking careers in the health professions

Given the growing array of health professions, mentoring programs need to recognize that the single-track premedicine route may not be the ``best fit'' for many students

Mentoring in the Technical Disciplines: Fostering a Broader View of Education, Career, and Culture In and Beyond the Workplace

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Rose M. Marra

Robert N. Pangborn

Examples of mentoring in engineering are provided as models for how to relate ot students beyond the traditional classroom format

Mentoring expands the opportunities to interact with students and provides rewards for both students and the faculty mentors

International Study for Outstanding Students: A Case Study

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Mary Gage

International study can transform students' views of themselves and the United States

Various approaches to providing international experiences are explained along with examples of how to create a heightened awareness of international issues on U.S. campuses

Mentoring Undergraduates with Professional and Liberal Arts Goals: The Mass Communication Experience

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Jeremy Cohen

Working in journalism and mass communication is an act of civic participation

Students, therefore, must be mentored to see the relationship between the liberal arts and the communication professions

Mentors should engage students in careful reflection and assist in the process of self-understanding

Full Human Presence: A Guidepost to Mentoring Undergraduate Science Students

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Brain P. Coppola

Mentoring represents a new mode of professional development for the sciences

Mentoring in the sciences can also assure that the next generation of scholars will help break the cycle of perpetuating a narrow, and increasingly untenable, definition of education

Various examples of mentoring are presented

Promoting Understanding of Diversity Through Mentoring Undergraduate Students

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Margaret Scisney-Matlock

John Matlock

The effective mentoring of a diverse student population requires that faculty examine their own stereotypical thinking, know the social environment of their students, and strive to engage students of color as fully as possible in the educational process

Educating the Practitioner: Strategies for Focusing on the Student in the Undergraduate Business Curriculum

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E. R. Melander

As universities move to become more student centered, the need for a change in instruction is imperative

Colleges and schools of business administration can put students in more active roles, helping them to learn in the same kinds of environments they will function as managers

Mentoring Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Courses

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Timothy L. Killeen

Within a multidisciplinary context, mentoring can improve student learning and raise levels of interest in the sciences

Such an approach can even be used in large class settings where the use of faculty teams and new instructional technologies can be applied

The Transformation of Teaching

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Graham B. Spanier

The challenges to higher education in the twenty-first century include developing an increased sensitivity to individual differences among students and encouraging diverse approaches to instruction

Promoting new ways for students to learn involves getting to know students better, experimenting with various methods for transmitting content, and, ultimately, in humanizing the educational environment

Index

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Beyond Teaching to Mentoring New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 85

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