Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 5, Number 2

New trends in college and university teaching (Cox & Richlin, 1993) develop as faculty innovate and evaluate to help their students learn. As we looked over the articles accepted for this issue, we were interested to find that several of them dealt with a subject not included in our former schema of emerging trends: namely, the important elements in student teacher relationships. This new topic led us to speculate as to why these contributors are investigating this area.