Contributors
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James S. Baumlin is Professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University, where he teaches the history of rhetoric and Renaissance literature.
Linda Serra Hagedorn is Associate Professor, Senior Research Associate, and Program Chair for the Community College Leadership program in the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. She has published widely on various aspects of higher education including student retention, student gains, faculty salary, and sexual harassment on campus.
William Hare is Professor of Education in the Department of Education at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His books include Open-mindedness and Education and What Makes a Good Teacher. He published an earlier article, "The Roles of Teacher and Critic," in Journal of General Education Volume 22, Issue 1.
Hisako Kakai is a doctoral candidate in educational psychology at University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is a Japanese national and a former recipient of the Rotary Foundation Scholarship. Her primary area of interest is culture's influence on cognition. Currently, she is exploring cultural effects on the development of critical thinking dispositions among college students. As a graduate assistant, she has been actively involved with research examining cross-cultural differences in medical decision making for cancer patients.
Dean McGovern is Executive Director of The Montana Campus Compact and doctoral candidate studying Higher Education Administration in the Department of Educational Leadership at The University of Montana–Missoula.
Yoram Sagher is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has developed, and for the last dozen years taught, a course titled "Methods of Teaching High School Mathematics," as well as numerous continuing education courses for in-service teachers. Professor Sagher has written more than 50 research papers in Harmonic Analysis, Interpolation Theory, and Probability and directed eight doctoral dissertations. He is currently [End Page iii] studying the pedagogy of the Singapore K-10 mathematics curriculum and its possible applicability to U.S. schools.
M. Vali Siadat, Ph.D., D.A., is Distinguished Professor and Mathematics Department Chair at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, Illinois. He is also the Co-Principal Investigator of the award-winning Keystone Project as well as the Co-Principal Investigator of the NASA/HACU Proyecto Access/Chicago PREP.
Margaret E. Weaver is Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University, where she teaches postmodern and feminist rhetorical theory and composition pedagogy. [End Page iv]
