call for papers

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Call for Papers on Foreign Language Staff Selection, Mentoring,
Evaluation

Papers are invited for  the Year 2000 volume of the American
Association of  University Supervisors and Coordinators of Foreign
Language Programs.  The volume, published by Heinle and Heinle, is
tentatively titled Foreign Language Teaching Assistants, Lecturers, and
Adjunct Faculty:  Their Selection, Mentoring, and Evaluation.

Edited by Benjamin Rifkin, this volume will consider the principles and
practice of hiring, mentoring, evaluating, and rewarding teaching
assistants, lecturers, and adjunct faculty in foreign languages.
Suggested topics include: criteria for selecting instructional staff,
including the relationship between TAships and the graduate program;
assessment of applicants' linguistic competency and of potential teaching
ability; documentation of these competencies after instructors begin
teaching; procedures for mentoring instructors and rewarding them for
excellent teaching; role of the language program director and other
department members in all of the above; nature of communication among
applicants, employed instructors, and the department, college, and
university administrators; and legal ramifications of hiring and retention
practices.  Essays should draw upon theory as well as upon practical
models and should not be restricted to a description of a single program.

The volume editor welcomes questions about the suitability of topics and
advance submissions.

Benjamin Rifkin
Slavic Department, U. of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI  53706  USA
brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu
voice:  608/262-1623 fax:  608/265-2814

Deadline for submission of papers (4 copies):  1 November 1999.

See style sheet (Modified Chicago B) in recent issues of the AAUSC
series.



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Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof., Slavic Dept., UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706 USA
voice:  (608) 262-1623; fax:  (608) 265-2814

Director of the Russian School, Middlebury College
Freeman International Center, Middlebury, VT  05753 USA
voice:  (802) 443-5533
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