In this Fall 2006 issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, we have included eight manuscripts that deal with issues both in and out of the healthcare classroom.

In this Fall 2006 issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, we have included eight manuscripts that deal with issues both in and out of the healthcare classroom. To begin, Prince, Triplett, and Lindsey discuss the destructive aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in light of the relationships among three factors in Mississippi and Louisiana: childhood poverty, children's well-being, and academic achievement. An additional classroom study is included with the research of Pritchard and Wilson who studied faculty and student stress and health during midterm examination week. Readers will discover similar findings among both faculty and students, with faculty reporting fewer physical health symptoms and less tension, depression, and confusion. Their conclusions and interpretation of findings will make for appealing reading. Balogun and Germain add to the research on university faculty with their in-depth literature review on tenure policies and practices in allied health and nursing education. Within their summary of published studies, the authors include topics such as educational requirements for tenure, roles of scholarship, teaching and service in tenure decisions, and tenure innovations.

In the area of service learning, we wish the reader to note the flow of topics: service tied to university mission statements, a proposed program of service learning, and the practice of service from reflective action research to serving the elderly. In their paper, Miller and Giugliano explore how several collaborative disease prevention and health promotion ...