Examines the complex roles and responsibilities of Professional Development School (PDS) liaisons from the perspective of one liaison who has served in many capacities. She notes that her most intriguing challenge relates to differences among sets of roles and responsibilities, some of which are more hierarchical and some of which are more…

Examines the benefits to student teachers, teachers, students, and teacher educators of a 1-year, Masters-level teacher education program that is part of a larger Professional Development School (PDS) partnership between a high school and the University of Louisville. Data come from interviews with individuals from each of these groups within the…

Presents the Professional Development School (PDS) experiences of a participant who was both a school principal and the director/superintendent of a university laboratory school at the beginning, and who is now an Associate Professor and the director of an institute where she facilitates the creation of PDS relationships. (SM)

Speculates on the future of Professional Development Schools (PDSs), examining: the Holmes Group's beginning vision of PDSs; PDS progress; persistent problems; the vision of learning and learning to teach; the role of the university at large; the structures of schools and PDSs; teachers' roles; recent enabling trends; and a primary purpose for…

This article identifies the roots of the Professional Development School movement, examining its current focal areas and focusing on some of the challenges it faces in sustaining itself in the future and in meeting its potential as a reform strategy to bring about real change for students, educators, and future educators. (SM)

Explores possible causes of low durability and impact for minority mentoring programs. Recommends designing such programs with a conceptual base to ensure meaningful goals and practices. Emphasizes designing programs based on a cogent definition of mentoring, reflection on roles within mentoring relationships, and consideration of cultural and…

Investigated high-achieving African-American students' perceptions of the importance of mentors, their definition of good mentors, and ways that mentoring helped them reach their academic potential. Interviews with students, named top high school achievers, during their college years indicated that these high achievers did need mentors to make the…

Investigated the perceptions of African-American students at a predominantly white college about race in the mentoring relationship. Data from focus group discussions indicated that faculty mentoring helped students adjust to college and to the dominant culture. Faculty race was not as important in the mentoring relationship as was being in the…

Describes one strategy used by Tennessee Technological University to promote a supportive environment for minority students in the College of Engineering. This precollege program encourages college-bound African-American high school graduates to pursue engineering careers. A key component in bridging the gap between high school and college is the…

Reviews the literature on mentoring and the role of organizational socialization, then presents highlights from the Puente Project, a California community college program, as an exemplary model that addresses the needs of first-generation Latino college students from a cultural context. The paper discusses program successes and notes implications…

Describes the development of the Coming Home Project, which features financial support, structured experiential events, minority-focused university services, and mentoring designed to prepare minority candidates to be educated in predominantly white colleges and to be teachers who will return to their communities as education professionals.…

Describes the Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences Program, which works to recruit and retain minority students in agricultural majors through a variety of enrichment experiences. Fosters mentoring partnerships between minority agriculture and natural-resource college students and professionals from academia,…

Explores requirements for mentoring graduate students of color, debunking five myths about such mentoring, examining mentoring models, and recommending three modalities for individuals who wish to mentor minority graduate students ("academic midwifery,""role modeling," and "frientoring"). Each of the three modalities requires care and support,…

Describes the development of a mentoring program that paired faculty and graduate students and changed the institutional environment for minority students, examining one black graduate students' reflections on the change and her struggle to adjust to the new, predominantly white environment. Discusses several issues that must be confronted when…

Describes one university's Graduate Mentoring Program, which was designed to help minority graduate students succeed by providing a supportive environment that facilitated social, academic, and professional support. The program, which was shaped by graduate students in a school of education, relied less on faculty and more on students as…