Touchstone - Spring 2010

P R E F A C E

Lucinda Zoe

What a delight to be publishing the third edition of Touchstone, the Hostos journal on teaching and learning. For three years now we have gathered our forces to document our work, share ideas and pedagogies, explore best practices and, in effect, create a social life for our ongoing conversation around teaching and learning. Besides being a forum for an exchange of ideas among faculty, this annual publication is also designed to provide faculty with an opportunity to prepare a manuscript for publication and have it reviewed and edited by a team of caring colleagues. Dean Kim Sanabria and Professor Carl James Grindley serve as the co-editors of the journal, and have once again, with the Editorial Review Board, taken on the task of critically reviewing and editing the work of their colleagues. They have done so as a true labor of love and should be commended for their thoughtful and caring approach to this work. Touchstone serves as the springboard for submission to a peer- reviewed journal in the field. All authors included in this volume are encouraged, expected even, to enhance and expand their articles for publication in the professional scholarship of teaching and learning beyond the college.