Publisher's Synopsis
As a result of rapid changes affecting higher education, educatorsface continuing challenges to meet their responsibilities and mustreevaluate their interactions with students, both inside andoutside the classroom. This new issue examines how educators mightmentor their students. Covering a variety of disciplines, theauthors discuss how to prepare students for more active andcollaborative learning and how to help students develop differentskills they will need to succeed. They also examine the effect ofchanging demographics, diverse student populations, and changingstudent expectations on mentoring. In the transition to alearning-focused environment with the student at the center of theendeavor, instructors will find this issue a helpful tool as theycontinue to play a major but changing role.
This is the 85th issue of the Jossey-Bass series NewDirections for Teaching and Learning.
