Top Five Lessons Learned at the NLN Summit 2000

Abstract Those of you who attended the September 2000 NLN Education Summit in Nashville know how successful the conference was, particularly in generating enthusiasm for all that we do as faculty. While I consider myself a seasoned and senior faculty member based on the decades I have spent in the academic world, I was amazed at how many new teaching tips I learned. Dr. Ron Berk, the Summit's closing speaker, taught us about the humor of Top Ten lists in the method popularized by David Letterman. The “Top Five” list shared below, however, is meant to be very serious. These are, in my opinion, the most important themes that we heard at the Summit.