Mentoring and “Secret Knowledge”

In another in her series of articles on mentoring junior faculty toward tenure, Kerry Ann Rockquemore discusses this week in Inside Higher Ed the “secret knowledge” that one must discern to “Sink or Swim.” The secret knowledge is the hidden information about how things really work and the strategies to actually be successful. In other [...]

New Academic Year

Many readers of NursingWriting (but not all by any means) are associated with academic institutions, where we are engaged in the beginning of a new academic year. Sunday’s New York Times included advice to new college students from respected professors. Excerpts here: I would advise students to take a composition course even if they have [...]