Lucia F. Baker holds a Diplôme de Hautes Etudes from the Université de Grenoble and an M.A. from Middlebury College, and did graduate work at Radcliffe College and Yale University. She is retired from the University of Colorado (Boulder) where she taught French language courses and coordinated the Teaching Assistant Training Program, which includes methodology training and course supervision. Professor Baker received two Faculty Teaching Excellence awards and was honored by the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers for unusual service to the profession

Ruth A. Bleuzé holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in French from the University of Colorado (Boulder). She taught language, literature, history, and civilization at the University of Colorado (Boulder and Denver), Loretto Heights College, and Dartmouth College. She received a Graduate Student Teaching Excellence award and has been listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. Dr. Bleuzé is now director of training for Prudential Relocation Intercultural Services, a management consulting firm providing cross-cultural and language training.

Laura L. B. Border received her Ph.D. in French from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she taught French language courses for many years. At Boulder she received the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence award. As an undergraduate at the Université de Bordeaux she studied French language, literature, and culture, and later taught English language and phonetics there. Dr. Border is now director of the Graduate Teacher Program at the Graduate School of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Carmen Grace is the coordinator of Collage, Cinquième édition. She holds an M.A. in French from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she teaches literature, language, civilization, and methodology. At Boulder, she directed the first-year Teaching Assistant Program and now coordinates the Intermediate Language Program and supervises teaching certification candidates. Professor Grace has also taught English at the Université de Bordeaux. She has received a French Government Fellowship to the Sorbonne and the University of Colorado Teaching Excellence Award.

Janice Bertrand Owen received her Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She teaches language and literature at the Boulder and Denver campuses. She has directed the University of Colorado Study Abroad Program in Chambéry, and has designed and taught an intensive course for secondary teachers of French in the Boulder Valley Schools.

Ann Williams-Gascon is professor of French at Metropolitan State College of Denver, where she teaches French language, literature, and culture. She regularly presents conference papers and writes on the teaching of culture. Dr. Williams-Gascon participated in the Summer Seminar on Contemporary French Culture sponsored by the French government; she received an Excellence in Teaching Award (Golden Key Honor Society) and the Young Educator Award (Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers). Her Ph.D. is from Northwestern University, and she has a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies from the Université de Lyon II.