Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 18, Number 2

Higher education continues to grapple with numerous teaching challenges as we approach the end of the first decade of the new millennium. These include an increasingly multicultural student population, greater demand for alternative teaching methods and forms of delivery, the ever-expanding use of technology in teaching, and the need to train and mentor faculty to meet these challenges. But as higher education moves from an instructional to a learning paradigm, perhaps the path to reform begins not with sweeping institutional change but with the day-to-day efforts of individual faculty members, coupled with faculty development programs to support faculty in these efforts.