Innovative Higher Education Volume 16, Number 1, Fall 1991 Editor’s Page A Woman of Substance Ronald D. Simpson College Teaching: What Do We Know About It? K. Patricia Cross Louise McBee Lecture presented by Dr. Cross at the University of Georgia on October 25, 1990 Cooperative Learning: A Successful College Teaching Strategy Lenora Cook A review of the literature concerning the use of cooperative learning strategies at the undergraduate level of instruction An Evolutionary Response to Adult Learners: The Urban Small College Douglas L. Robertson This article discusses characteristics of adult learners and recom- mendations for serving them at urban small colleges—an emerging institutional type Adult Students, Adult Education, and the Ed.D.: An Alternative Residency Experience Rae Wahl Rohfeld Adult education concepts provide a basis for designing an alternative residency for working adult Ed.D. candidates An Examination of Similarities and Differences Among Adults’ Perceptions of Instructional Excellence in Off- Campus Credit Course Programming Joe F. Donaldson Analysis of adults’ perceptions of instructional excellence suggests that perceptions can be understood as normative expectations resulting from socialization experiences General Education in Research Universities: Training Programs for Teaching Assistants Julie A. Hughes The instructional processes for general education courses which rely on teaching assistants as a major teaching resource are examined Innovative Higher Education Volume 16, Number 2, Winter 1991 Guest Editor’s Page William K. Jackson The Third National Conference on Professional and Personal Renewal for Faculty The National Renewal Conference: A Forum for the Discussion of Issues of Faculty Vitality and Renewal William K. Jackson A series of national conferences focusing on faculty renewal is described The Three Rs of Conflict Management for Department Chairs and Faculty Walter H. Gmelch and James B. Carroll An introduction to understanding and addressing conflict in academic departments is presented Second Order Change: Impact of a College Renewal Program over Time Joyce Povlacs Lunde, Daniel W. Wheeler, Ted E. Hartung, and B.J. Wheeler A structured process for faculty professional development yields external and internal benefits for individuals and the institution they serve From Rejection to ‘Renuwel’ to Renewal: Chairperson, Faculty, and the Research Imperative Peter Balbert The Chair’s strategy in encouraging research, and four archetypal examples of faculty who need research renewal, is examined Applying Productivity Indices as an Innovation for Motivating Individual and Institutional Initiatives for Faculty Renewal Merl Baker Productivity indices are indicators of faculty accomplishments and provide faculty and their supervisors guidelines for assessing performance and effectiveness of resource utilization A Professor Realizes the Potential Poison of Ivy David F. Machell Professional melancholia involves a loss of motivation, positive attitude and self-esteem An Essay-—Faculty Writing: Redirection and Renewal Mary Kathryn Harrington Faculty renewal focusing on professional writing and faculty attitudes toward it, and strategies to inspire writing is encouraged Innovative Higher Education Volume 16, Number 3, Spring 1992 Editor’s Page Patricia L. Kalivoda and Ronald D. Simpson The Mission of Innovative Higher Education: An Update Using the Delphi Method A Practical Guide to Zero-Based Curriculum Review Michael B. Paulsen and Bruce A. Peseau A systematic, situationally-flexible, and reusable framework to guide the implementation of a “zero-based” curriculum review process is presented Some Lessons to be Learned from a Decade of General Education Outcomes Assessment with the ACT COMP Measures Donald B. Yarbrough Evaluations of cognitive general education outcomes need to be better designed and implemented in order to provide worthwhile information about program outcomes and valid uses of the ACT COMP measures Structured Study Questions as a Social Work Teaching Method: A Controlled Experimental Study Bruce A. Thyer, Geraldine Jackson-White, Richard Sutphen, and Dorothy F. Carrillo The effectiveness of structured study questions as a method of instruction within didactic social work education is examined Innovative Higher Education Volume 16, Number 4, Summer 1992 Editor’s Page Ronald D. Simpson Innovative Higher Education is Finding Its Niche in Higher Education Fostering Intellectual Development of Students in Professional Schools Through Interdisciplinary Coursework Sheila P. Wright The relationship between intellectual growth and interdisciplinary general education courses designed to promote lifelong learning is examined Teaching and Learning One-Course-At-A-Time Charlotte Vaughan and Christopher Carlson The effects of the adoption of a calendar incorporating intensive study throughout the academic year at a small liberal arts college are examined An Investigation into the Types of Turning Point Events Affecting Relational Change in Student-Faculty Interactions Karen Lynn O’Neill and William R. Todd-Mancillas This study examines whether students are able to identify significant “turning point” events contributing to relational changes with university instructors Implementing an Advanced Composition Program with Faculty from Across the Curriculum John Dinan, Joseph E. Finck, William Miles, and Mary Scheuer Senter This paper describes Central Michigan University’s positive experiences in teaching advanced composition with faculty drawn from departments throughout the university