Identifies optimal practices or
benchmarks for creating a quality learning environment and outlines steps faculty and administrators can take to strengthen student learning on their own campuses. Integrates the rich literature of teaching and learning with the findings from in-depth interviews with faculty and administrators at four of America's premier research institutions, and offers practical, real-life solutions for meeting student learning challenges.
JANET G. DONALD is professor of education and former director of the Centre for University Teaching and Learning at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She lives in Westmount, Canada.