Contributors to October's AE-Extra
[Issue 9/2003]

Lynne Fukuda is a Distance Education Specialist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and is a regular contributor to this journal in the monthly column, "The View From Here." Her previous column, "Fukuda's Chalkboard," can be found in the January-August 2002 editions of this journal, as well as various other writings in the 2001 editions.

Dan Lukiv (M.Ed.) teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Centre. Quesnel, BC, Canada. He is a poet, novelist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher. His writing has appeared over fifteen hundred times in 16 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow, the USA's Paul Bagdon, and England's D. M. Thomas. He edits a literary journal, CHALLENGER International, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets. He also edits The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters.

Anthony N. Ezeife (B.Sc., M.A., M.Sc. Ph.D.) is a teacher educator at the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada. Professor Ezeife has been exposed to learning and teaching mathematics and science in several Universities in diverse cultures across continents. A former UNESCO Fellow at Teachers' College, Columbia University in New York City, U.S.A., Professor Ezeife focuses his research on the improvement of math/science teaching, addressing issues such as the impact of teacher preparation and pedagogy on the learning of math/science. His publications have also discussed cross-cultural issues in science/mathematics education, and matters that deal with making the teaching of science and mathematics culturally relevant.

Rahim Ashkeboussi (Ph.D) is Associate Professor of Finance in the College of Business at Frostburg State University. He has been involved with teaching online since 1997 and has published his findings on the efficacy of online teaching/learning. Ashkeboussi was named Distance Education Fellow by the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM) in 1999 after completing the Web Initiative in Teaching (WIT) program, sponsored by the USM Institute for Distance Education.

Alaina Lett is an adjunct instructor at Snead State Community College, Boaz, Alabama, Jefferson State Community College, Birmingham, Alabama, and Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama. Since graduating from Jacksonville, Ms. Lett has taught freshman composition and American Literature survey courses; also, she has recently completed Jacksonville's Writing Project Summer Institute. Her writing interests lie in personal, reflective poetry and methods of teaching rhetoric and composition.

Jayne Fenton Keane is the author of 3 poetry books, Torn (Plateau Press, 2000), Ophelia's Codpiece (Post Pressed, 2002), and The Transparent Lung (Post Pressed 2003). Keane is a current doctoral student on academic scholarship and producer of the award winning multi-media website "The Stalking Tongue" located at http://www.poetinresidence.com/. Please visit and sign the guest book.

Academic Exchange Extra invites reader responses to any writings in this issue--especially articles advancing the scholarly debate of issues raised.

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