Kimberly K. Eby (kebyy1@gmu.edu), an ecological-community psychologist, is an Assistant Professor in New Century College at George Mason University and a faculty affiliate with Women's Studies and the Department of Psychology.  She has taught multiple integrated studies learning communities, including "Violence and Gender" and "Self as Citizen", as well as courses in adolescent psychology and lifespan development.  Her research interests revolve around the scholarship of teaching, particularly examining faculty roles in collaborative work, and issues related to violence and gender, such as domestic violence, sexual assault, health sequelae of violence, and violence intervention and prevention.

Ruth Overman Fischer (rfischer@gmu.edu) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English and the Director of Composition.  She has presented at the conventions of the College Composition and Communication, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Modern Language Association, in addition to the previous two Writing Across the Curriculum Conferences.  She is a faculty member in Women's Studies, a Teacher/Consultant with the Northern Virginia Writing Project, and a member of the Mason chapter of the National Coalition Building Institute.

Joel Foreman (jforeman@gmu.edu) started teaching distance courses in 1996.  His current work in course redesign is supported by a Mellon Foundation grant.  Recent publications include articles on avatar worlds, the paperless classroom, all-digital writing courses, and virtual organization. Earlier publications include an edited collection of essays, The Other Fifties. Interrogating Midcentury American Icons (U of Illinois, 1997), and articles on topics as diverse as computer-generated videographics and the filmic representation of organizational dynamics.  Foreman's consulting includes recent analyses of worklife at the Hughes Information Technology Corporation, DynCorp, and Media General Cable.  He devoted the earlier part of his career to producing and directing broadcast documentaries. His favorites are the documentaries on the novelists William Styron, Rita Mae Brown, and Carlos Fuentes.

Elizabeth M. (Betsy) Gunn (egunn@gmu.edu) is an Associate Professor in New Century College, where she co-teaches learning communities investigating such topics as the scientific and public policy issues associated with migratory organisms and the roles and responsibilities of the individual as citizen.  Before joining George Mason University, Betsy was with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, and the University of Oklahoma.  She has authored or co-authored numerous articles and books in such areas as environmental policy, energy policy, ethics in public service, and program planning and evaluation.  While at the University of Oklahoma, she was named the Outstanding Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences.  In addition to her continuing research on environmental and science policy, she is studying the role of collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching in higher education.

Dee Ann Holisky (dholisky@gmu.edu) is Associate Professor of Linguistics and the Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University. She has been responsible for the development of the Technology across the Curriculum Program in the College.

Teresa Michals (tmichals@gmu.edu) gained her Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University and now teaches in the English department at George Mason University, and directs the Linked Courses program there. She has published in Eighteenth Century Studies and Nineteenth Century Literature, and is now working on a book about property and identity in the Romantic period.  She has recently participated in presentations about linked courses at national learning community conferences.

Star Muir (smuir@gmu.edu) has been a faculty member in the Department of Communication since 1988. In 1999, he became director of the Student Technology Assistance and Resource Center (STAR) which, through workshops and one-to-one mentoring, teaches students how to use the technology they need to meet class requirements. Last year the center served more than 7000 students. He now splits his efforts between STAR and the Department of Communication. In addition to teaching a class each semester and fulfilling his research and scholarly responsibilities, he continues as the department's undergraduate coordinator. His research interests are in the area of environmental communication, especially culturally constructed images of nature in society. He is also interested in issues surrounding the use of technology for class presentations, and is working on video modules for presenting with technology. He is co-host of Mason Currents, which is broadcast weekly on GMU-TV.

Elizabeth Patten (epatten@gmu.edu) is currently Associate Director of the Freshman Center, responsible for recruiting, selecting and training the Peer Advisors and Faculty who teach Mason's freshman seminar course, University 100.  She also works with the University Scholars Program and other transition courses.  Ms. Patten has worked in Higher Education for the past 10 years in a variety of areas including Orientation, Academic Advising, Freshman Seminar courses, Continuing Education, Residence Life and Career Development.  She received her B.A. in English and French from Bowling Green State University, and her M.A. in Higher Education and Counseling Psychology from Ohio State University.

John Radner (jradner@gmu.edu) is an associate professor in the Mason English department, who mainly teaches and writes about eighteenth-century British literature and Utopian/Dystopian literature. His current project project is a biography of the relationship between Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, five sections of which have been published or accepted for publication.  Having in the past served as Associate Chair of the English Department, and Director of Graduate Studies, he is now Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English Department.

Jim Sparrow (jsparro2@gmu.edu) is Coordinator of Technology Across the Curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University. He has been working with faculty to introduce technology into their courses since September of 1998, and is also currently the director of an on-line historical research project, the Blackout History Project
(http://blackouts.gmu.edu/), at the Center for History and New Media.

Dr. Mark A. Spikell (mspikell@gmu.edu) is Professor of Education (Mathematics) at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia. He has an Ed.D. in Curriculum, K - 12 (Mathematics), from Boston University; a B.A. in Mathematics from Miami University; and, 35⁺ years experience as a mathematics educator in schools and universities. He is author of Teaching Mathematics with Manipulatives, (Allyn and Bacon, 1993), and co-author of more than 27 resource books, curriculum units and articles. He has been a frequent speaker at professional meetings and active in many organizations, including the National Council Teachers of Mathematics, the National Council Supervisors of Mathematics, the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (past president), the Virginia Council Teachers of Mathematics and the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England. Currently, he is Coordinator of Ph.D. and M.Ed. Leadership Programs in Mathematics and Science Education and Director of the Metamedia Mathematics Program at Mason.  In 1995, Dr. Spikell received the George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award.

Daniele C. Struppa (dstruppa@gmu.edu) is a Professor of Mathematics and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University. His interest in technology in instruction began a few years ago when he collaborated with other faculty at George Mason on the development and implementation of distance courses within the PAGE program.

Ashley Taliaferro Williams (awilliam@gmu.edu) teaches in New Century College where she also serves as Writing Across the Curriculum consultant and has responsibility for portfolio assessment. Her research interests include collaborative pedagogy, writing in interdisciplinary contexts, and Appalachian literature.  She was a founding faculty member in NCC and prior to that taught in the English Department and PAGE, as well as contributing to other General Education reform initiatives at George Mason University. Her recent conference papers include presentations on authority in the classroom, Appalachian literature, and writing across the curriculum in learning communities, which is also the subject of a book chapter, co-authored with Terry Zawacki, forthcoming in WAC for the Millennium (NCTE).

Jim Young (jyoung8@gmu.edu) is a Librarian at George Mason University. In addition to his duties at the Library he teaches for New Century College (NCC), an interdisciplinary "learning community" program. Other responsibilities include ongoing work in NCC's Technology Across the Curriculum Program and Information Technology Assessment Coordinator for Mason's Department of Instructional Improvement and Instructional Technologies (DoIIIT). In addition to these responsibilities he is also a doctoral student in Higher Education Administration.

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