Valuing faculty as educators is essential for medical schools to fulfill their unique mission of educating physicians. The 2006 Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Educational Affairs, provided educators seeking academic promotion with a portfolio-based format for documenting activities in five domains, using...

Based on a survey of the teaching staff in 20 Vocational College of Shandong Province, the present paper described the current research situation of vocational colleges in China with detailed figures and proposed strategies to strengthen the scientific research management of vocational colleges.

Collaborative innovation takes knowledge increment as the core, and focuses on realizing the effective goal by means of “synergy” and “collaboration”. Under the idea of collaborative innovation, colleges should construct collaborative mechanism among the government, colleges and companies to promote enterprise education reform, break through the predicaments, and encourage the internalization a...

High-school seniors have a worry: Will their Facebook or MySpace pages count against them in college admissions? A new survey of 500 top colleges found that 10 percent of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social-networking sites to evaluate applicants. Of those colleges making use of the online information, 38 percent said that what they saw “negatively affected” their views of the ap...

In 2007, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated a series of conversations with faculty members, administrators, and other stakeholders, seeking input on ways to improve undergraduate biology education to better prepare all students for the biology-related challenges of the twenty-first century (http://visionandchange.or...