Easing into Energy Education

The competition for positions in higher education grows daily. People in some fields, such as teacher education, are more endangered than others, but all faculty need to establish their value to the institution. Assuming that faculty choose to remain in their role, suggestions have been made to stimulate their further professional development. Most of these depend on the very characteristic that faculty most value in students, initiative. Other ideas rely on administrative action or support; however, the primary burden is on the in dividual to discover new resources, to use existing in terests more effectively, and to develop new skills. Whatever their status, faculty today must be active in their own professional development as a means of self preservation, for there is no Humane Society for the Nurturing of Faculty as an Endangered Species.