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Religious studies suffers from the outside threat of less and less funding like all the humanities and from the inside challenge that religious studies is simply an ideology. Schneider argues that the religious studies major "needs to grow up" and learn to articulate what it is good for. He articulates several of these goods.

Website dedicated to basic issue related to studying religion: why? What is religion? What are the mportant issues? Where to study?

The Religion in the Academy (RITA) project focuses on the many ways that religion, spirituality, and big questions of human meaning and purpose can enhance learning at colleges and universities.

Topics Covered: Make the Expectations and Criteria for Promotion Clear; Facilitate the Acquisition of Resources to Meet these Expectations; Give Frequent and Accurate Feedback; Reduce the Impediments to Progress towards Promotion

A description of the mentoring program at the University of San Francisco's Department of Education. See right sidebar for sample mentor and mentee survey forms and sample guidelines for faculty mentoring.

Describes “mentoring across differences,” to address relationships in which the two parties are different in ways such as race, culture, and gender but also is ways such as learning and communication styles, life experiences, and personal interests.

Brief overview of what to expect as a mentee, from Emory University

Brief overview of how to be a mentor, from Emory University

If you are a new faculty member and don't feel like you belong, act like you do, writes Nate Kreuter.

Annotated Bibliography on Mentoring from the University of Arizona