The construct of job satisfaction is rooted in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Theory. The current study was conducted to ascertain the level of job satisfaction of faculty members specializing in agricultural communication, agricultural leadership, agricultural teacher education, and extension education and to determine which job factors are the greatest predictors of an individual's overall job satisfaction. Survey research methods were utilized to collect data from members of the American Association for Agricultural Education with specializations in the aforementioned disciplines. The Three Factor Job Satisfaction Scale was used to measure faculty members' level of satisfaction with the policy and administration, personal growth and satisfaction, and fiscal resources job factors as well as the level of overall job satisfaction. A 74% response rate was achieved. Descriptive and relational statistics were used to analyze the data. Overall, faculty members were moderately satisfied with their jobs, with the personal growth and satisfaction job factor explaining the greatest proportion of variance in overall job satisfaction scores. Department chairs and administrators should focus faculty professional development around the factors related to individuals' personal growth and satisfaction.

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Agricultural education in the United States has a rich history over the past century. A number of innovative individuals were responsible for developing the program of agricultural education we ascribe to today. These individuals had little from which to lay a foundation, however their work proved to be beneficial to the success of the field. This historical research study examined the background of early teacher educators in agriculture and early secondary teachers of agriculture. Early teacher educators in agriculture were well educated scholars who recruited qualified individuals to serve as teachers of agriculture and to meet the demands of vacancies in high school vocational agriculture programs. Today, we are faced with a demand for secondary teachers of agriculture. As we work to fill these vacancies, we must look at the work and characteristics of our predecessors in meeting this need.

Nearly half of all new teachers leave teaching within the first five years of entering the profession. The exodus from the teaching profession has placed teacher recruitment and retention as an important challenge for public education in the United States. In order for the workforce of teachers to remain sustainable; the field of education recognizes the need for professional development programs, particularly novice teacher induction, to combat the teacher attrition challenge. A number of studies determined that a positive relationship exists between mentoring and induction programs and teacher retention. Within the context of the relationship between mentoring and teacher retention, the importance of the abilities and beliefs mentor teachers contribute to the process cannot be neglected. Mentoring is a nurturing process that provides an ongoing, caring relationship between mentor and novice teacher, where the attitudes, beliefs, and dispositions of the mentor play a key role in the development of the novice teacher. viii Vita

ProstaScint (CYT-356 or capromab pendetide, Cytogen) is an 111In-labeled monoclonal mouse antibody specific for prostate-specific membrane antigen, a prostate transmembrane glycoprotein that is upregulated in prostate adenocarcinoma. ProstaScint scans are US Food and Drug Administration approved for pretreatment evaluation of metastatic disease in high-risk patients. They are also approved for post-prostatectomy assessment of recurrent disease in patients with a rising prostate-specific antigen level. This review explores the literature on ProstaScint and its use in guiding the treatment of prostate cancer. A novel technique for identifying areas of cancer within the prostate using ProstaScint images fused with pelvic computed tomography scans is also described. The identification of areas of high antibody signal provides targets for radiotherapeutic dose escalation, with the overall goals of improving treatment outcome while preserving adjacent tissue structures and decreasing treatment morbidity.