Four newsletter issues on college instruction cover large class instruction, working with teaching assistants (TAs), preparing a course syllabus, and practical approaches to dealing with cheating on exams. Specific topics include: deciding on content for large class lectures, selecting texts and readings, physical characteristics of the lecture classroom, communicating expectations for the semester to students, maintaining students' attending during a lecture, planning testing and grading at the beginning of the course, selecting TAs, preliminary and on-going meetings with TAs, monitoring TAs' progress, the rationale for having a course syllabus, what to include in the syllabus, different ways that students can cheat, ways to prepare and administer tests to avert cheating, what to do when cheating occurs, and regulations concerning cheating on exams at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (SW)