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Jerry G. Gaff is a Senior Scholar at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He received a Ph.D. in psychology from Syracuse University. He served on the faculties of five institutions and was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and acting president of Hamline University. He authored numerous books including Toward Faculty Renewal (1975), General Education Today (1983), and New Life for the College Curriculum (1991) and co-edited the Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum.

Diane F. Halpern is Director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children at Claremont McKenna College. As a cognitive psychologist, she has worked on a variety of higher education issues including the enhancement of critical thinking skills in college students, assessment of educational outcomes, and using the science of learning as a pedagogy for higher education. Her most recent books are Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (4th ed.) and Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities (3rd ed).

Trudi E. Jacobson, Coordinator of User Education Programs at the University Libraries, University at Albany, teaches an undergraduate information literacy course and a graduate course teaching new librarians how to teach. Her articles on user education have appeared in library science and education journals. She is co-editor of Teaching the New Library to Today's Users (Neal-Schuman, 2000) and Teaching Information Literacy Concepts (Library Instruction Publications, 2001). She serves on her campus's General Education committee's Information Literacy subcommittee.

Jeannette Ludwig earned her PhD at the University of Michigan. She is Associate Professor of French Linguistics at the University at Buffalo. A recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Ludwig has held a number of administrative posts, including Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness. As a faculty member she played a leadership role in shaping curriculum [End Page iv] and facilitating faculty seminars for the "American Pluralism" component of UB's general education program.

Beth L. Mark is Instruction Coordinator at Messiah College's Murray Library. A librarian, she has worked with first-year seminars for the past eight years and serves on both the general education committee and the educational program review task force. Areas of academic interest include modes of assessment, active learning, learning and communication styles, gender studies, and American social history.

Jack Meacham is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Buffalo - The State University of New York. A recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Meacham has taught both the World Civilization and the American Pluralism courses in the University at Buffalo's general education program. Meacham has served as Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and currently serves as Chair of the Department of Psychology.

Gary E. Miller is Associate Vice President for Distance Education and Executive Director of the World Campus at The Pennsylvania State University, where he is also Affiliate Associate Professor of Adult Education. Miller holds a Doctor of Education in Higher Education from Penn State. He is the author of The Meaning of General Education: The Emergence of a Curricular Paradigm (Teachers College Press) and of numerous articles and book chapters on topics related to the curriculum, continuing education, and distance education.

Robert R. Newton is Special Assistant to the President at Boston College, and previously served as associate academic vice president at Boston College for 20 years. He holds graduate degrees from Woodstock College, Fordham University, Yale University, and Harvard University. He coordinated the revision of the Boston College core curriculum in the early 1990s and has published on curricular and organizational issues in both higher and secondary education. [End Page v]

Robert Rhoads is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and Latin American Center at UCLA. He teaches courses in higher education and social research methods. He is the author of the following books: Allegheny Longing, Community Service and Higher Learning, Freedom's Web, Coming Out In College, Democracy, Multiculturalism, and the Community College (with James Valadez), Enhancing Promotion, Tenure and Beyond (with William Tierney), and Academic Service Learning (with Jeffrey Howard).

John L. Rury is Professor in the School of Education at...

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