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Become a Mentor
What can I expect from a mentoring relationship? A mentor may provide advice, suggestions, or direction on a variety of career or authoring issues; feedback on an article, book proposal, manuscript, or other type of writing; answer questions and provide guidance; etc. Expectations on behalf of both parties should be agreed on prior to beginning a mentoring relationship. Some of those expectations might include:
You are free to determine your own partnership and how you want to manage the relationship. Let us know about your mentoring experience by filling out this short online form: Click here
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Childs Bio: Dr. Jeffrey Childs holds a Bachelor's Degree (Summa cum laude) in Computer Science from Youngstown State University, OH, and a Master's and Ph. D. in Computer Science from Kent State University, OH. He had conducted research in the Gaussian decomposition of images and has written and published several papers on the subject. He has discovered the Quickstep algorithm, having a much better time complexity than the existing algorithms for Gaussian decomposition. He has taught data structures for the past nine years. In addition, he has researched data structures during the last three years, breaking new ground in client-based design pedagogy and memory management, as well as the design of certain data structures. He is the author of C++ Classes and Data Structures, published through Prentice Hall. He is currently a tenured professor at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Topics willing to mentor on: Textbook writing.---------- Don
Collins Bio: Don Collins graduated from West Texas State University with a BS in mathematics. He has taught middle school/junior high mathematics in Texas and Illinois. After earning an MA in mathematics from Boston College, the next several years were spent in the publishing industry. He was the editor of one of the nation's first Pre-Algebra texts. Later, as managing editor he put together the authorship team and guided the production of the nation's best selling Pre-Algebra text. As his children graduated from college, he left the publishing industry and went back to school earning his doctorate from the University of Houston. Dr. Collins has taught mathematics and mathematics methods courses at Ohio State University, Sam Houston State, and Texas Tech before settling at Western Kentucky University. This year he is a visiting professor at the University of Texas at El Paso He has served as a reviewer, consultant and co-author on several mathematics texts and is a frequent speaker at NCTM and other conferences. Topics willing to mentor on: School mathematics, mathematics education. ---------- Mary
Edwards Bio: Mary E. Edwards is Professor of Economics at St. Cloud State University where she has taught courses in Regional and Urban Economics for many years. She currently directs the Master of Science Program in Applied Economics there. She also has been a visiting professor at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota and at the Université Toulouse I in Toulouse, France. She was president of the Minnesota Economics Association and she has been on the board of that association. She has been involved with the Minnesota Economic Development Center at St. Cloud State University. She has been a member of Research Committee for St. Cloud Area Economic Development Partnership, and she has done numerous regional analyses for these agencies. She has also published in the Journal of Regional Science, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Atlantic Economic Journal, American Journal of Economics and Sociology and other journals. Topics willing to mentor on: Starting out; organizing; overcoming writer's block; citations (i.e. forget REFWORKS!); scheduling time to write. ---------- Tara
Gray Bio: Tara Gray serves as associate professor of criminal justice and as the first director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The Teaching Academy provides NMSU educators with training, mentoring, and networking. Tara was educated at the United States Naval Academy, Southwestern College in Kansas and Oklahoma State, where she earned her Ph.D. in economics by asking, "Do prisons pay?" She taught economics at Denison University before joining the Department of Criminal Justice at NMSU. She has published three books, including her most recent, Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at NMSU and nationally with seven awards for teaching or service. Tara has presented faculty development workshops to 3,000 participants in more than twenty of the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Thailand. More info about Tara's workshops: Click here Topics willing to mentor on: writing daily, writing journal articles and books. ---------- Elaine
Hull Bio: Elaine Hull is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Florida State University. After spending 37 years at State University of New York at Buffalo, she moved to FSU in August, 2004. She has had over 20 years of grant funding from the NIH and is the author of 83 peer-reviewed journal articles and 11 chapters, in addition to the Study Guide to accompany Kalat's Biological Psychology, currently in its 9th edition, which won a 2007 TAA McGuffey Award. She has received both the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award while at SUNY at Buffalo, as well as the New York State/Union of University Professionals Excellence Award and Sustained Achievement Award from SUNY/Buffalo. She studies the neuropharmacology of male sexual behavior and is currently writing a book on that topic for Oxford Press. Topics willing to mentor on: Writing grants; writing research articles; and writing chapters. --------- Richard
Hull Bio: Richard Hull retired from 30 years with the Philosophy Department at State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997. He has continued to publish, edits several series, and has 13 volumes in print with such presses as Wadsworth, Rodopi, Kluwer, Prometheus, Thoemmes, and AuthorHouse, as well as a self-published e-book. Hull is also Executive Director of TAA and the TAA Foundation. Topics willing to mentor on: time management; writer's block; preparing journal articles from the dissertation or thesis; responding to reviewers; picking optimal journals for submissions; any topics in philosophy, bioethics, editing collective volumes from conferences or professional organizations, festschrifts. --------- Seth
Maislin Bio: Seth Maislin is a managing partner of Potomac Indexing, an adjunct instructor at three colleges in Massachusetts, and author of an online course, "Writing Indexes for Books and Websites." He is an indexer, information architect, and taxonomist who has consulted for companies and institutions including Mercedes Benz, the United Nations Library, Microsoft, Elsevier, and The Hartford, as well as privately for individuals and small groups. Seth is a former president of the American Society of Indexers and founder of the techindexing mailing list. http://taxonomist.tripod.com Topics willing to mentor on: writing and evaluating indexes for books, websites, and CD and multimedia publications --------- Pat
McKeown Bio: Pat McKeown is a professor of MIS and former department head. He has authored or co-authored over 30 books or editions in the fields of management science, computer programming, introduction to computers, and information systems. Topics willing to mentor on: Any --------- Kevin
Patton Bio: Kevin has been writing educational materials for students since the mid-1980s. He began writing supplemental materials, then quickly moved to core textbooks in the field of human anatomy and physiology. He currently authors three major texts, along with several reference books and supplements. Two of his texts, with retired coauthor Gary Thibodeau, have won TAA McGuffey Awards. Kevin also has several citations for teaching excellence. Besides writing, Kevin is a professor at St. Charles Community College and is Director of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society Institute (HAPS-I), a professional continuing education program for anatomy and physiology instructors. Kevin's approach to textbook writing emphasizes the use of learning research and proven study strategies to successfully organize textbooks. Topics willing to mentor on: Working with a coauthor; the revision process; supplemental materials (lab manuals, workbooks); illustration programs; applying educational research to texts, organizing workflow. ---------- Paul
Rosenzweig Bio: Specialist in assisting authors to determine amounts due from publishers in underpaid royalties, and assisting in collection. Additional biographical information: Click here Topics willing to mentor on: Royalty statements ---------- Michael
Sullivan Bio: Michael Sullivan, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Chicago State University, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mike taught at Chicago State for 35 years before recently retiring. He is a native of Chicago's South Side and divides his time between a home in Oak Lawn IL and a condo in Naples FL. Mike currently has 15 books in print. Three are with John Wiley: Brief Calculus and Mathematics for Business (9th editions) and Finite Mathematics (10th edition), [a TAA McGuffy winner]. Twelve are with Prentice Hall, the Contemporary Precalculus series (8th Ed), [College Algebra, 7th edition was a TAA Texty winner; College Algebra, 8th edition was a McGuffy winner], the Enhanced Precalculus series (5th Ed) and the Concepts Through Functions Precalculus series (1st Ed). The last two series are coauthored with his son Mike III. Mike has been a member of TAA since 1987. He has served as a member of the Council, as Treasurer, Vice President/President Elect, President, and currently as Immediate Past President. He also serves as Treasurer on the Text and Academic Authors Association Foundation. In addition, he represents TAA on the Authors Coalition and received the TAA Mike Keedy award in 1997 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Topics willing to mentor on: College level textbooks ---------- Nancy
Volkman Bio: Currently an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Her degrees are from Beloit College in Wisconsin (B.A. in Anthropology) and from the University of Illinois (Master of Landscape Architecture). Here principal areas of teaching have focused upon landscape history, cultural landscape studies, design and planning for historical landscapes, and community design. Topics willing to mentor on: anything related to landscape architecture instruction, textbook authoring, and journal authoring. ---------- John
Wakefield Bio: John F. Wakefield is Professor of Education at the University of North Alabama and President of Text and Academic Authors Association, an organization founded in 1987 to enhance the quality of text and various educational materials available for teaching, research, and other educational purposes. His academic career includes a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has served as both interim dean of education and as assistant vice-president for academic affairs at UNA. His psychological research has been published in numerous professional journals and a book titled Creative Thinking: Problem Solving Skills and the Arts Orientation. He has published a textbook, Educational Psychology: Learning to Be a Problem Solver, with Houghton Mifflin, and more recently has written on the subjects of textbook history and textbook usage in the United States. He was recently awarded a U.S. Speaker and Specialist grant to lecture on educational research and textbooks at five universities in Chile. Further biographical information is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in American Education (2007-2008). Topics willing to mentor on: self-publishing ---------- Frank
Wilson Bio: Frank Wilson is a mathematics professor at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona. He regularly teaches College Alegebra, Precalculus, Brief Calculus, and Calculus I. He presently serves as the Technology in Math Education Committee Chair for the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges. He is a regular presenter at national and regional mathematics conferences. Frank has written three textbooks: Finite Mathematics, Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus, and Brief Applied Calculus. Four more textbooks are under contract and in development including: Applied Calculus, College Algebra, Algebra and Trigonometry, and Precalclus. Topics willing to mentor on: textbook authoring, working with coauthors, getting a textbook contract
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