A New Year, a New Teaching Scholar-in-Residence, and a New Publication

I'd like to use this space to make a couple of introductions.

The first is to welcome Dr. Ricky Cox, Associate Professor of Chemistry, to the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Ricky will be with us this year as our 2005-06 Teaching Scholar-in-Residence. He will be carrying on the tradition set by Dr. Joy Navan who served as CTLT's first teaching scholar-in-residence for the academic year 2004-05. Ricky will be meeting regularly with faculty on issues related to teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He is also spearheading the Murray State Teaching Chronicles, which is this publication and the focus of the second introduction.

The Murray State teaching community has a committed base of excellent, articulate faculty. Ricky has tapped into this base and over the course of the year will be working with faculty to produce short articles for publication in the Murray State Teaching Chronicles that speak to issues and philosophies related to teaching. While we will print a few copies of the Teaching Chronicles, costs considerations will make this primarily an electronic journal.

We thank Ricky for coordinating this excellent discourse on a topic central to the future of higher education and Murray State University.