Toward Teaching Excellence in the Decision Sciences*

ABSTRACT Recently the National Commission on Higher Education Issues found serious problems with college‐level teaching and recomended educational reforms. This paper describes one attempt at reform—namely, a course at Georgia State University on university teaching for College of Business doctoral students. The 45‐hour seminar, based on a university teaching model, covers setting instructional objectives, lecture and discussion methods, teaching methods for higher‐level learning, test construction, course evaluation instruments, and instructional and technological innovations. Previous studies have demonstrated repeatedly that teaching improvement seminars can improve teacher and student performance in the classroom. This paper discusses how the seminar could be implemented at other colleges of business administration, extended to faculty development workshops, and ultimately result in a master teacher or instructional professorship.