This proceedings contains 27 articles on improving teaching and learning in higher education. The following articles are included: "Gender Differences and Faculty Work Satisfaction," (N. Beardslee, N. White, and J. Richter); "Using Your Own Student Evaluation Form for Teaching Improvement," (Y. Bhada); "Excellence in College Teaching," (J. Follman); "Faculty Turnover: An Analysis by Rank, Gender, Ethnicity and Reason," (D. Honeyman, Jr. and S. Robinson Summers); "Linking the Faculty Recognition Process to Teaching Excellence," (J. Shirk and M. Miller); "Part-Time Faculty Evaluation: A Campus Case Study," (J. Williams); "Reigniting the Flame: TQM Tactics for Faculty Rejuvenation," (W. Akin); "Reigniting the Flame: TQM Tactics for Faculty Rejuvenation (Transforming the Marketing Imperative into a Career Boost)," (C. Chambliss); "Using Professional Software To Enhance Teaching Excellence," (F. Coulter and J. Stryker); "Partnerships Improve Teaching and Learning," (L. Hirst and D. Blomquist); "Creative Teaching and the Practical Applications of Knowledge," (D. Kushner); "Writing (and Talking) To Learn: Integrating Disciplinary Content and Skills Development," (D. McCabe); "Increasing Teacher Effectiveness through Tech Prep Partnerships," (G. Moore and C. Holm); "Diary of a Designing Professor (Or How I Went beyond Content Expertise!)" (C. Price); "Sleeping with the Enemy: Making Outcomes Assessment Work in the Classroom," (P. Schueler); "Participative Learning Experiences in the Professional Studies Classroom," (S. Colvin); "Reality 401: An Intense Preservice Field Based Program for Middle Grades Education," (A. Ducharme); "Pedagogical Implications of a Meritocratic Analysis of Burton Clark's Cooling-out Process," (D. Hellmich); "Institutional Change as a Renewal Process: NHMCCD Model," (C. Brock, P. Gray, O. Joynton, and N. Thorogood); "Teaching Minority Content: A Community Based Model," (K. Kelly); "The Underprepared Student: A Student Centered Process Coordination Model," (M. Popejoy); "The Rigor and Exorbitance of Reading: Teaching Critical Thinking in the Freshman Honors Seminar," (B. Brown); "Arts and Science/School of Education: A Cooperative Approach to the Teaching of Introductory Geography," (C. Hertzog and C. Lieble); "Visions Management: Effective Teaching through Technology," (R. Larson); "Rejuvenating Instruction through Development of an Applied Lab for Sociology Students," (E. Rosengarten and D. Fletcher); "Seeds and Searches: The Writing Process in Higher Education," (T. Smith); "Organize the Theme and Renew the Method for Teaching Excellence in College Physics," (G. F. Toth); and "How Taking Creativity Out to the Schools Can Foster Exciting Writing at an Early Age," (R. Wilson). (TGI)