Eighty papers from a 1984 international conference on improving university teaching are presented. Topics include the following: predicting achievement and overcoming disadvantages for first-year students, the impact of technology on higher education, using student conceptions of learning and teaching, problems and solutions for teaching effectively, academic administrators, testing and teaching first-year students in mathematics and science, reducing student attrition, developing faculty as teachers, project methods in engineering, optimizing teaching for different kinds of students, institutional planning with a focus on campus climate and community needs, planning and "megatrends" for teaching in higher education, students and writing, uses of computers in teaching, experiential approaches to teaching, aspects of lecturing, experiential learning programs, and an international perspective on the evaluation of teaching. (SW)