Mentoring is herein defined as the careful and caring nurture, guidance and sponsorship of a fellow professional (protege) by a senior experienced associate. Mentoring is reintroduced as a time-constrained, on-site, intervention strategy, which can produce a desirable and enduring effect in the “internationalization” of land grant faculty members. This introduction and pursuant description of intervention dynamics addresses a need in faculty development for a global interdependency. Such interventions are considered a unique niche for mentoring as a strategy in the career (...) development of selected individuals. The author describes the dynamics of the mentor/protege relationship in the overseas setting and in the context of multi-sensory exposure toward sensitization within the affective domain. He does this by examples drawn from personal experience during an extensive international career. Results are described in terms of proteges' subsequent behaviors, personal and professional. Approaches to program and attitude toward program are examined. Lasting perceptions and enduring values are enumerated. Benefits to mentor are likewise disclosed. There is an urgency across America that cries out for a network of university faculty members to become internationally competent in order to share the academic and programmatic excellence that happens around the world. (shrink)

The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans was first developed to establish a standard of practice in research ethics by the three federal agencies responsible for funding institutional research in Canada: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. In 2010, a second edition of the policy, known as the TCPS 2, was released with updated information and expanded coverage of research ethics issues. According to the TCPS (...) 2, the Agencies’ mandate is “to promote research that is conducted according to the highest ethical standards,” and the TCPS 2 serves as a benchmark for this with respect for human dignity as its underlying value. Research institutions receiving Agency funding are to comply with this policy statement by forming Research Ethics Boards to review all research involving human participants. The intention behind this review requirement is to provide a proportionate assessment of the benefit-to-risk ratio of the research, and in that process, to safeguard “respect for persons”, express a “concern for welfare”, and uphold “justice”. Research may not proceed until ethics approval is granted by an institution’s REB. The current study evaluates REB members’ perspectives on their knowledge of research ethics, and juxtaposes these perceptions with those of researchers. Specifically, we are interested in the extent to which REB members with less experience read the TCPS 2, and whether those with less experience have decreased confidence in their ethics knowledge. (shrink)