Introduction / Wm. E. Campbell -- The renewal of community in higher education / Parker J. Palmer -- The use of stories in teaching / Nel Noddings -- The braiding of classroom voices : learning to write by learning to learn / Wendy Bishop and Toby Fulwiler -- Tools for tampering with teaching's taboos / Craig Nelson -- For openers, an inclusive course syllabus / Terrence Collins -- Student management teams : the heretic's path to teaching success / Edward B. Nuhfer -- Using knowledge maps to enhance excellence / Donald F. Danserau and Dianna Newbern -- Extending the classroom walls electronically / Tom Creed -- Cooperative learning for new teachers / Karl A. Smith and Alisha A. Waller -- Academic controversy : increase intellectual conflict and increase the quality of learning / David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson -- Getting it together : learning communities / Valerie Ann Bystrom -- Afterword : new paradigms for college teaching / Karl A. Smith and Alisha A. Waller.