Seventy-four papers from a 1986 international conference on improving university teaching are presented. Topics include: student-teacher relationships, the pulse of the academic professional, improving teaching via techology, campus-corporate linkages, institutional changes and liberal learning, improving university teaching through evaluation, quality and access, women in academia, issues in faculty development, innovations in distance learning, improving business education, students and success, innovative classroom methodologies, interdisciplinary studies, issues in student assessment, teacher education, and improving math and science teaching. Additional papers concern: improving university teaching using instructional resources, the computer and language learning, essay examinations in the business curriculum, verbal interaction analysis with university professors, directed self learning in liberal studies for science undergraduates, improving the organization of undergraduate textbooks, college response to an aging society, and a child development curriculum project that interfaces university and the workplace. (SW)