To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development, Volume 25

DOUGLAS REIMONDO ROBERTSON is assistant provost and professor at Northern Kentucky University. He has helped to start or reorganize four university professional development centers (Portland State University, University of Nevada, Eastern Kentucky University, and Northern Kentucky University. He is senior editor of the book series on better teaching for new Forums Press, as well as current or past member of the editorial boards for Innovative Higher Education, Journal for Excellence in College Teaching, and Kentucky Journal for Excellence in College teaching and Learning. He is Fullbright senior specialist candidate and a frequent consultant and speaker at colleges, universities, and a diverse array of other organizations. He has authored or co-edited five books including Making Time, Making Change: Avoiding Overload in College Teaching (New Forums press, 2003) and Self-Directed Growth (Brunner-Routledge, 1988).

LINDA B. NILSON is founding director of Clemson University's Office of teaching Effectiveness and Innovation. She recently co-edited Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom (Jossey-bass, 2005) and revised her bestselling guidebook Teaching at Its Best: A research-Based Resource for College Instructors (Anker, 2003), now in its second edition. In addition to teaching a graduate course on college teaching, she leads faculty workshops at universities and conferences both nationally and internationally. Before coming to Clemson, she directed teaching centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California-Riverside, and was on the sociology faculty at the University of California-Los Angeles.