Additionally, the proposal stated that all published work would be judged by a pancl of peers and would appear in recognizable journals. | included a list (by no mvans exhaustive) of possible professional journals in which I might publish—for example, College Composi- tion and Communication, Teaching English in the Two- Year College, and Western American Literature. Naturally, this list of journals would vary according to an instructor's discipline and areas of interest. Publication Incentives Naturally, this proposal could be tailored for community college teachers in any discipline; it should not be limited to writing teachers. Teachers in all disciplines (from accounting to zoology) should be professionally active and should be encou raged to publish their work, whether that work is an automotive technology instructor's investigation of the Flat Rate system in the automobile service industry, an economic instructor's newspaper column on current issues in veonomics, or an accounting instructor's discussion of classroom strategies. My professional publications will not only bring me personal satisfaction, but institutional recognition and (eventually) financial reward. Since the approval of my PDP, | have received 0.25 graduate semester-hour credit for a published book review and have had an article accepted for publication, for which I will receive eredit upon publication. Ki nding the time to be professionally active, to write, while still managing a typical community college teaching load of 15 to 16 hours per week, is a dilemma that community college instructors continually face and must strive (on a college, state and national level) to solve. In the meantime, | am encouraged to follow Donald Murray’s advice: “Nulla dies sine linea” (never a day without a line)—if only a few lines, written in the gaps between teaching and family responsibilities. Keith Kroll, Instructor, English For further information, contact the author at Kalama- 200 Valley Community College, 6767 West O Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49009. Plan to join participants from col- leges across the U.S. and Canada for the eleventh annual celebration of teaching excellence, to be held in Austin, May 21-24, 1989, Featured speakers: Jacquelyn Belcher, Vice President for Aca- demic Affairs, Lane Community College, Oregon, and President, American Association of Women in Community/Junior Colleges; Walter Bumphus, Vice President for Stu- dent Services, Howard Community College, Maryland, and President, National Council on Student Devel- opment; Harold “Bud” Hodgkin- son, Senior Fellow, Institute for Educational Leadership, Washing- ton, D.C.; Charles Kane, President, Riverside Community College, California; Hans Mark, Chancellor, The University of Texas System, Texas; Byron McClenney, President, Community College of Denver, Colorado; Kay McClenney, Educa- tional Consultant, Colorado; Char- les Pascal, Chair, Ontario Council of Regents, Ontario, Canada; and Terry O’Banion, Executive Director, League for Innovation in the Com- munity College, California. A final program for NISOD’s International Conference on Teaching Excellence and Conference of Administrators will be available by March 15. Suanne D. Roueche, Editor ES Ae a a ee re Fobruary 3, 1989, Vol. XI, Vol. 4 ‘oTha University of Texas at Austin, 1989 Further duplication is parmitted by MEMBER institutions for their own personnel. Ja INNOVATION ABSTRACTS is a publication of the National institute for Staff and Organizatonal Development (NISOD), EDB 348, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, (512) 471-7545. Subscriptions are available to nonconsor- tum members for $40 per year. Funding in part by the WK. Kellogg Foundation and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, Issued weekly when classes are in session during fall and spring terms and once during the summer. ISSN 0199-106X.