Breaking the tyranny of office hours: Overcoming professor avoidance

ABSTRACT

Studies have found that Faculty–Student Interaction (FSI) has many positive benefits for students including academic support, professional development, mentoring, and career planning. Research-intensive universities exhibit the lowest levels of faculty–student interaction within higher education. This article utilises qualitative methods to explore faculty, student, and staff perceptions of faculty–student interactions, particularly those that take place out of the classroom, at a research-intensive public U.S. university. We identify social distance between faculty and students based on unequal status within a rigid, hierarchically-organised culture as a key barrier to FSI. We then discuss methods that some of the faculty in our study used to mitigate their social distance with students in an effort to increase FSI.     

略论西部大开发中的图书馆建设

图书馆事业是西部开发系统的有机组成部分，图书馆事业的发展在西部大开发中有着重要的意义，将支持西部人才资源和信息资源的开发，加强西部图书馆建设，为西部经济发展进一步做好咨询服务。     

The scholarship of teaching: A comparison of conceptions held by experts and regular academic staff

Over the past decade the scholarship ofteaching has received considerable attention inthe higher education literature as a reactionto the widely cited Carnegie Foundation'sreport ``Scholarship Reconsidered'; however, theconcept has remained devoid of a unifieddefinition. A recent Delphi study conductedwith a selective group of scholars whoseexpertise lies in the area of universityteaching and learning indicated the extent towhich these ``experts' agreed with each other onimportant features and unresolved issues theyassociate with the scholarship of teaching. Building on the results of the Delphi study,the present article discusses the results of asecond survey comparing these ``experts' 'conceptions with those of a larger group ofscholars whose expertise lies in a differentacademic field (``regular academic staff'), inorder to identify the similarities anddifferences in the conceptions of thescholarship of teaching held by each of the twogroups. While regular academic staff werefound to associate the scholarship of teachingmore with good or effectiveteaching ``experts' pointed to notions such aspeer review and scholarly standards. Thediscussion of the results focuses on the notionof consensus reached within and betweenthe two groups. It is argued that in order topromote changes in policy with respect to whatis to count as scholarship, identifying andreporting ``experts' ' conceptions, thoughclearly necessary for promoting moreenlightened discussions on the issue, willremain insufficient. Policy change in academeis more likely to ensue as a result of thewider academic community reaching consensus onthe meaning, and nature, of the scholarship ofteaching. The wider academic community includes``experts', as well as colleagues in departmentsand disciplinary associations. The articleconcludes by exploring the notion of consensusthrough the lens of critical social theory.     

浅析当前电视综艺栏目的后现代主义特征

各电视台纷纷推出的以湖南卫视《快乐大本营》为代表的综艺栏目,采取反精英文化和走向大众(通俗)化的立场,对电视文本元叙事功能进行解构,打破了高雅艺术与大众艺术的界限,颠覆了传统综艺栏目的意识形态和政治教化的功能。其所创造的虚拟的“快乐空间”,拉近了电视与普通观众的距离,有浓郁的平民气息,具有后现代主义的某些特征。     

关于数字化档案馆建设的思考

文章对数字化档案馆建立的意义、数字化档案馆的特征进行了分析，对建设数字化档案馆进行了思考与探讨。     

人的全面发展和图书馆的人性化服务

人的全面发展是人的本质要求，人必须尽可能地全面占有前人创造和积累的一切知识，才可能在新的起点上向前发展，而人在通过劳动实践所取得的一切知识信息，几乎全部以物化的形式存贮于图书馆里，所以图书馆在人的全面发展中起着不可替代的作用，图书馆的服务应该确立以人为本的观念，坚持公益性及读的主导地位，加强个体化服务的研究，更好地为人的全面发展服务。     

高校学术创新团队建设应注意的问题

高校科技要出更多的原创性科研成果，就必须抓住机遇，建设强有力的学术创新团队。因此，目前学术创新团队的建设已成为高校十分重要的任务和目标。处理好学术创新团队的定位、人员组成、团队文化等问题是学术创新团队建设成功的关键。     

彭桂萼边疆史地研究的学术思想特点

彭桂萼的边疆论著,是当前研究西南边疆有价值的历史资料之一,也是云南的重要文献之一。他的研究克服了前代学者研究滇西南囿于书本的局限,以实地履勘与文献考证相结合,著述真实可信。综观他的边疆论著,具有明显的爱国爱乡的思想倾向;实地调查,创新体例;认清边疆形势,加强边防建设;风土人情,记载周详的特点。     

高校图书馆工作的理性思考与探索

高校图书馆是高校教学科研的信息中心．如何做好现代图书馆工作,一是要增强服务意识,提高服务质量;二是要加强特色馆藏建设;三是加大数字图书馆建设,构建文献共享平台;四是重视图书馆安全,责任重于泰山;五是强化管理,营造和谐环境．     

以人为本与民族地区地方高校图书馆职工队伍建设

以人为本对于民族地区地方高校图书馆职工队伍建设有现实意义。民族地区地方高校图书馆职工队伍建设应做到:以人为本,在配备职工时重点考虑有志于民族文化研究的人员;以人为本,增强职工事业心,建设为民族文化研究服务、科研型职工队伍;以人为本,结合民族地区实际,培养感情,建设和谐的职工队伍。