Recently, researchers and practitioners have found that the use of support groups is a productive method for enhancing collegiality, solving problems, and finding solutions in a "climate of mutual trust, respect, and assistance." Although the graduate school curriculum may have been helpful in planting knowledge, growth occurs in the experience of…

Multicultural principles, discipline, and curriculum theory should be integrated and revisited across the teacher-education program via case studies, portfolio assessment, and field experiences. Authors deplore prescriptive, procedural approaches to teaching and value ongoing faculty/student conversations, university alliances with "best" teachers…

The administrator preparation programs at the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Christian University both have a strong critical-thinking component. The universities share a common vision to promote and maximize learning opportunities for all within a community of learners, explore appropriate instructional strategies, model the notion of…

"E pluribus unum" too often equates with assimilation or discrimination, with no tolerance of variation. Schools must strive to eliminate such a rigidly defined, ethnocentric canon and normalize inclusivity. Individuals inclined to argue against existing historical representations (of "woman,""poor," or "black") can become productive, positive,…

To prepare for the future, professors will have to develop community, collegiality, and diversity. At present, college faculty's priorities and perversities may keep them from facilitating this triadic set of values. A radical tolerance for disagreeable, distasteful, even dangerous differences must occur for faculty to communicate honestly and…