Too often photographic teachers get very involved in the techniques needed to make a photograph, but miss the importance of why and how to teach photography. There is often an assumption that if someone knows the techniques, then they can surely teach that material or method. This panel will examine how to prepare to be a photographic educator and how to assist others to be effective in their preparation to teach photography.

Glenn Rand presently teaches for Brooks Institute of Photography’s graduate program. He publishes and lectures internationally about photography and digital imaging. He co-authored “Black-and-White Photography, 2e” and “Digital Photographic Capture.” His consultant clients included Eastman Kodak Company, Ford Motor Company, Finland's Ministry of Education and other businesses and several colleges.

D. Elizabeth (Beth) Linn taught Fine Arts Photography for 25 years at Bradley University. She developed the fine arts photography, MA and MFA curricula. She designed the photography facilities for the Heuser Art Center. For 14 years Beth was the graduate advisor and coordinator of the art graduate program and recently co-developed “The Pedagogy for Graduate Students in Studio Art.” Beth received the “Teaching Excellence Award,” has lectured nationally and given workshops in photography and “Art of the Book.”

Jane Alden Stevens has taught photography and professional practices for fine artists for the past 22 years. The 2002 recipient of the Cohen Award the University of Cincinnati's highest teaching honor, She conducts the Teaching Seminar for fine arts graduate teaching assistants. She is a member of UC's Preparing Future Faculty program that prepares students for university teaching.

Richard Zakia taught photography at RIT from 1958-1992. In 1980 he was awarded the "Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award." He co-authored several books on photography including the "Zone System" with Minor White. He co-edited the "Focal Encyclopedia of Photography" and authored "Perception and Imaging."

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In an era where adjuncts comprise anywhere from 30-75 percent of the faculty, and tenured positions becoming scarcer, what is the future of photographic education? How does this shift from full-time faculty to part-time faculty affect students and the teachers? Adjunct unionizing ”What are the challenges of pursuing a unionizing campaign and the realities of working within a unionized environment?

Colette Copeland, a multi-media installation artist received a BFA from Pratt Institute and a MFA from Syracuse University. She teaches photography, visual studies and art writing at University of Pennsylvania and critical theory/criticism at the University of the Arts. She has exhibited her work widely both nationally and internationally. Copeland also writes for the publications, 'The Photo Review' and 'Fotophile'. In addition to her other activities, Copeland is the conference chairperson of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Society for Photographic Education. Her work can be viewed at www.inliquid.com

Cate Fallon received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA from New York University. She has been teaching digital and conventional black and white photography at New York University for the past 15 years and has also taught at the International Center of Photography and short workshops for the Human rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Banff Centre and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Brian Moss is an artist who uses drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, computers and the written word in his work. He received an MFA (photography) from CalArts in 1994, and a BFA (painting) from Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia) in 1984. Moss has been a fulltime part-timer since 1997, logging thousands of miles and destroying several vehicles as a Los Angeles freeway flyer. After a residency in Manhattan in Fall of 2004, Moss returned to Los Angeles only to have no time to promote the work he made due to the demands of a four day teaching week at four different institutions, including his first on-line graduate photography seminar where he regularly spent 15-25 hours a week while being paid for three.

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Participants will leave The Dossier Building Workshop with an armload of suggestions for building a successful dossier. Dossier components to be covered are: the curriculum vitae, the cover letter, slides vs. CDs, slide sheets, teaching philosophy, artist statement and clarification of request for "additional supporting materials". Participants should bring five copies of their current dossier for breakout sessions.

Libby Rowe received her BFA from University of Northern Iowa and her MFA from Syracuse University. She has taught photography and digital imaging for a number of different institutions in different capacities including summer workshops and courses at Miami University and University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, was department head of Photography at Oregon College of Art and Craft and is currently teaching at Vanderbilt University. Libby exhibits her photographs and mixed media objects and installations across the country. She has shown at Fotocircle Gallery in Seattle, the Sol Mendick Gallery at the University of the Arts in Philedelphia, and most recently at Zone Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mixed media exhibition, entitled “Pink” will be on display at Western Kentucky University in November 2005 and in Nashville in April 2006. www.libbyrowe.com

Jessica Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of Art at St. Norbert College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Wisconsin. She is responsible for the photography program at St. Norbert, a similar position to the one she held for four years prior at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire. Jacobs teaches courses in the art program, as well as general education courses for non-majors. She has most recently exhibited her large-scale color images in solo exhibitions in Vermont and New Hampshire. Jacobs received her MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a BS in Film from Northwestern University. www.jessicajacobs.com

Marni Shindelman is an Assistant Professor of art and an Associate of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Rochester. Her recent exhibitions include “Introducing” at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY “Lobster Bisque Tales” at the O’Connor Gallery of Art in Chicago, IL and The Space Gallery at Western Michigan State University in Kalamazoo, MI. Her work incorporates found hypertexts, medical myths and news events with icons of the banal, and ranges from printmaking to photographic imagery to sculpted soap and carpet. www.crackersinbed.com

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An overview of the current trends in photographic education - the panel will address the emergence of digital technology as an innovative teaching methodology and speak about web lesson plans, posting of assignments, reading and conferencing as realities and responsibilities of institutions. The panel will also discuss ways in which traditional silver methods can still enhance a student’s critical awareness and look at solutions for teaching more information with the same time requirements and budgets.

Richard Newman has been a photographer and printer for over 25 years. For the past 14 years he has worked for Calumet Photographic as the National Education Coordinator. He is also the Executive Editor of StudentPhoto Newsletter. He has taught workshops for the Calumet Institute, the Smithsonian-Library of Congress Folklife Series, the Santa-Fe Workshops on the Road, the Texas Photographic Society and the Society for Contemporary Photography. He is on the advisory board of the Texas Photographic Society.

Dennis Keely has been a photographer, teacher and writer for more than 20 years. Currently he is Chair of the Photography and Imaging Department at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He previously taught at the University of California in Irvine and Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts and was director of the CAP photo program at the Watts Towers of Art. He is also the Western Regional Co-Chair of the Society for Photographic Education and sits on the board of directors for the Santa Fe Center for Photography and the Angels Gate Cultural Center.

Ed Meyers is an industry veteran with over 20 years in the photography field. Starting as a darkroom assistant in the early 80s, Ed soon began shooting as a wedding and event photographer. By 1993, Ed was an established product photographer and studio manager. Ed came on board with Calumet as a technical instructor in 1988. He currently serves in that capacity, as well as working as a consultant, writer and technical problem-solver.

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Given the cost of digital equipment, and the rapidity with which it must be updated, might digital darkrooms create a new rift between the experience provided to, and work produced by, students at state institutions versus private? As well as addressing issues in the creative process, production and teaching of photography, this presentation argues that we must also attend to issues of economic class.

Calla Thompson has exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in South America, Eastern Europe, and Canada. She received her MFA from Syracuse University (1999) and her BFA from the University of Ottawa (Canada) (1996). Thompson is currently an Assistant Professor of photography at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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The critique process has the potential to be a transformative experience for students. I will discuss strategies and start a dialogue about critique as an experience in which students are engaged in the democratic process of building meaning in our culture and reflective process of understanding the constructs through which meaning is built.

Mariah Doren received her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY in 1997 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University. She has also taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, The International Center for Photography and School of Visual Arts all in New York.

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