Editorial -- Spring 2006
Welcome to the Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching & Learning!
May 5, 2006
Dear Readers of the Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning:
The Journal has completed its fourth year of publication with the support of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, The Kentucky Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Eastern Kentucky University, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Western Kentucky University, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Louisville. We have received the support and encouragement of all these public and private institutions across the state of Kentucky, having review team members from each and receiving submissions from the faculty of many of them. We have apparently begun to develop a national reputation receiving submissions from Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Missouri as well as Kentucky. We even had our first international submission from faculty members in China. The internet provides worldwide contacts!
Our permanent web domain posts articles as they are revised and accepted, and we have archived all four years of the Journal on the site. We are still working on achieving online editing, but many of our submissions now come via email attachments in Microsoft Word format.
With this issue we have begun what we hope will become a tradition, an article on the winners of the Council on Postsecondary Education’s Excellence in Online Teaching Awards. We would like to see more articles on Kentucky’s award-winning teachers. The Journal has broad submission categories. There are three peer-reviewed categories (theory, research, and practice) and three editor-reviewed categories (media reviews, profiles, and commentaries). The categories of this issue’s papers are identified in the table of contents. This approach is meant to both reward accomplished writers and encourage new writers to take the step of writing about their teaching and their students’ learning.
Once again I would like to extend a sincere thank you to my technical editor, Robin P. Haggerty, and to Gary D. Gibson, Southeast’s web master. Between them they have taken care of the technical details of publication. I appreciate all their help and support, as well as the hard work of the contributing authors who have frequently made extensive revisions to their work. Thank you all for your help and contributions to the Journal
Sincerely,
Katherine M. Thomas, Editor, KyJECT&L |
