Eighty papers from a 1985 international conference on improving university teaching are presented. Topics include the following: personality problems of students; using computers in teaching; burnout, stress, and renewal of academic staff; improving teaching by evaluating teachers; teaching writing; curriculum development in management and applied sociology; students' conceptions of learning and thinking; new approaches to curriculum development; computer training and networking; increasing students' involvement in learning; faculty motivation and personnel policies; institutional planning and evaluation; problems of individual student differences in background; teaching learning and thinking; evaluations of computer-assisted learning; independent study and distance learning; teaching values and attitudes; and more perspectives on faculty development. (SW)