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Growing Pains: Transitional Issues In Higher Education, Louis Fletcher Jan 2010

Growing Pains: Transitional Issues In Higher Education, Louis Fletcher

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

High school provides a structured environment which moves young adults through a daily routine of educational and social activities. Teachers and administrators are openly concerned about the student’s feelings and attitudes toward the overall educational experience. Parents are usually close at hand to encourage and empower their students through the tough times. They also provide financial support and transportation, at a minimum, when things are routine. Secondary education is intended to be a warm cocoon which nurtures the student-caterpillar into a well adjusted young butterfly within a parent-teacher chrysalis. Higher education has not traditionally provided the aforementioned structure; therefore, the …


Nurturing Faculty: An Old Concept?, Dee Mcgonigle, Kathleen Mastrian, Nedra Farcus, Renee M. Eggers, Linda Shoop Jan 2004

Nurturing Faculty: An Old Concept?, Dee Mcgonigle, Kathleen Mastrian, Nedra Farcus, Renee M. Eggers, Linda Shoop

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

An article discussing the need for nurturing faculty.