We are in the final stages of preparation for the inaugural Lunch and Learn. The first session, focused on the concept of critical thinking, will take place in room 101 of the Dining Hall tomorrow from 12:00 noon until 1:00 p.m. Registration begins at 11:45 a.m. Critical thinking is one of the attributes that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has identified as a required outcome for all core courses taught at LU. If you attended Dean Brenda Nichols session at the 2010 Faculty Professional Development Symposium, you are well aware of what a complex topic this promises to be for all concerned. This Lunch and Learn will only be the beginning of an ongoing discussion that will eventually need to include our students. The top article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today, Why Teaching Is Not Priority No. 1, focuses on a topic at the heart of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Happy to report that Colin Mumbach has joined the Center for Teaching and Learning as a graduate assistant. Colin is pursuing a master's degree in the Department of Art and holds a bachelor's degree in communication from LU. He joins Olivia Macon, the Center's original graduate assistant, who is pursuing an Ed.D. in educational leadership and holds a bachelor's and master's degree from Ole Miss.