Other research interests include second-language reading and writing processes, foreign-language methodology, and teacher training. As the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge University (2000), she pursued a cross-cultural analysis of thinking skills, values, and expectations in the context of the humanities in the U.S., France, and England. Her current research focuses on the work and life of Victor Hugo, including an anthology. Barnett, founding director of the Teaching Resource Center, holds the rank of professor at the University of Virginia (U.Va.), where she teaches French literature and composition. Her research interests include Jewish-German relations, polemical literature, and young adult and children’s literature. in German literature from the U.Va., where she has taught various language, literature, and culture courses. As a DAAD fellow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, she researched German-Jewish autobiographies. Born and raised in Germany, she received a master’s degree in German literature and physical education from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat in Freiburg. Bach is assistant professor and faculty consultant in the Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia (U.Va.), where she coordinates the Excellence in Diversity Fellows Program, among others. His book, Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System (Anker, 2000), has become the standard in the field and is used by many colleges and universities in guiding the development of their faculty evaluation and development programs. He has taught in the areas of statistics, instructional research, educational psychology, and academic administrative leadership, and has served as a consultant to more than 250 colleges and universities in assisting with the design, development, and operation of large-scale faculty evaluation and development systems. Arreola has worked and published in the fields of faculty evaluation, faculty development, distance education, and student learning outcomes assessment. Arreola is professor of health sciences administration and director of institutional research, assessment, and planning at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She teaches French language courses and writing, and her current research interests include teaching writing outside the composition classroom and teaching reading across the disciplines.
Patricia Armstrong is assistant director of the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is Making Time, Making Change: Avoiding Overload in College Teaching (New Forums Press, 2003). He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and a frequent consultant and speaker at colleges and universities. He chairs the Faculty Development Work Group for the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Council for Postsecondary Education.
He has helped to start or reorganize four university professional development centers (Portland State University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Eastern Kentucky University, and Northern Kentucky University). She can be reached at Reimondo Robertson is assistant provost for professional development programs and professor of educational leadership at Northern Kentucky University. Prior to her nine years at Rollins, she was director of the Learning Assistance Program at Wake Forest University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational development and learning organizations. Johnson Institute for Effective Teaching at Rollins College. Sandra Chadwick-Blossey is director of the Christian A.