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scott a. bass is the provost at American University and a professor of public administration and policy. A Gerontological Society of America Fellow, Bass received the 2012 Donald P. Kent Award for exhibiting the highest standards for leadership in gerontology education, service, and interpretation to society at large. He has written/edited eight books and forty-five articles and earned a Fulbright Research Scholarship to Japan. A recognized innovator in higher education, Bass is on the Educational Testing Service Higher Education Advisory Council and has served on numerous research and graduate education national boards. Past appointments include vice president for research, dean of the Graduate School, and Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Gerontology Institute director, Ph.D. Program in Gerontology director, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Yokohama City University, Japan; and visiting professor, School of Medicine, Stanford University.

samina hadi-tabassum is an associate professor at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. Her research interests include language education and linguistics. She is currently working on research related to the writing practices of young Spanish–English bilingual students. In 2015, her second book focusing on majority-minority schools will be released.

karen head (Ph.D., University of Nebraska) is the director of the Communication Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Since 2006, she has been a visiting scholar at Technische Universität–Dortmund, Germany, where she serves as the primary consultant for its academic center. Her research areas focus on writing and communication theory and pedagogical practice. In 2012–13, she was part of the Georgia Tech team awarded a Gates Foundation grant to develop one of the first massive open online courses focused on first-year writing, and she [End Page v] has published several articles about the experience. She has also published four books of poetry and exhibited several acclaimed digital poetry projects. Head is an award-winning teacher, and her courses center on analyzing, critiquing, evaluating, and creating a variety of texts that demonstrate an understanding and adaptation of multimodal rhetorical strategies.

jane mceldowney jensen holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and higher education from Indiana University, Bloomington, and conducts research on higher education in rural areas of North America and southern Europe. Jensen is the co-author of a text for first-year college students, Piecing It Together: A Guide to Student Academic Success, and an ethnographic study, Post-secondary Education on the Edge: Self-Improvement and Community Development in a Cape Breton Coal Town, published by Peter Lang.

maureen w. mcclure is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy and former chair in the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies and senior research associate in the Institute for International Studies in Education, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh. She teaches courses in finance, strategic management, and global education. Her work focuses on education policy, generational transitions, and development, including massive open online courses. She serves as senior vice president on the Board of Directors for Americans for unesco. She has been a director of the Global Information Networks in Education, for education in emergencies. She has served on national-level education policy teams—supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development; World Bank; U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; U.N. Children’s Fund; U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees; and Asian Development Bank—in Indonesia, Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, and Egypt. She is an elected local school board member.

benjamin worth is the assistant dean of distance learning and a professor of English at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, a comprehensive community college located in Lexington, Kentucky. He holds a Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Kentucky. His teaching areas include first-year experience courses, college composition, and world literature.

robert zemsky currently serves as chair of the Learning Alliance, a broad coalition of experts assisting institutions of higher learning in striking the balance between market success and public mission. He is a professor of higher education management in the Graduate School of Education at the University of...

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