Developmental Education: Readings on Its Past, Present, and Future

Hunter R. Boylan is the Director of the National Center for Developmental Education and a Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Developmental Education, the International Journal of Education and Development, and the Journal of Teaching and Learning and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Carnegie Foundation Statway Project, the National Center for Postsecondary Research, and the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE). He is the former Chair of the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations, a Past President of NADE, a previous Technical Assistant for the Gates Foundation Developmental Education Initiative, and the original Director of the nation's first Doctoral Program in Developmental Education at Grambling State University. He has received the NADE award for "Outstanding Leadership" and the association's "Outstanding Research" Award is named after him as are the research scholarships of the Association for the Tutoring Profession and the National College Learning Center Association. He is the author or co-author of seven books and over 100 research articles, book chapters, and monographs.

Barbara S. Bonham is a professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. She also serves as Senior Researcher for the National Center for Developmental Education and a faculty member for the Kellogg Institute. She had served as Coordinator of the Higher Education Graduate Program for 10 years. Her teaching background includes 12 years in the field of developmental education at Bloomsburg University as a math instructor, lab coordinator, tutorial supervisor, and assistant to the Director in a Student Services Program (TRIO). She has over 40 years of teaching experience overall. She has served as consultant to numerous two-year and four-year colleges in the area of developmental education, particularly mathematics, as well as a program reviewer and evaluator for Title III, Title V, FIPSE, Achieving the Dream projects and technical assistant for the Developmental Education Initiative. Her extensive list of state, national, and international keynote addresses, workshops, technical reports, and presentations reflect her broad areas of research and expertise. These include college teaching and learning, adult development, instructional design, culturally responsive learning environments, program planning, promising practices in developmental education, developmental mathematics, non-western approaches to adult learning, and educational systems in other countries. Her recent scholarly leave in New Zealand provided an opportunity to conduct an in-depth study of the models used for developmental education known as bridging programs and support services.