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In the fall of 1995, I-the second author of this article-began teaching multi-cultural education at New Mexico State University (NMSU) as an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. At that time, I had only been using a computer for two years, and only to word process. I did not even know how to back up a text document on a disk. How ironic, then, that I would join a department engaged in a discussion about distance education, even though at that time this meant only remote site face-to-face instruction.

Located in southern New Mexico, NMSU was one of two teacher education programs available to aspiring and in-service teachers in the …