Contributors
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ruth darling is an associate provost for student success and adjunct assistant professor, College of Education, Health and Human Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was president of the National Academic Advising Association and is a member of its Academic Advising Consultant and Speaker Service. She has presented at numerous conferences and is on the nacada Journal Editorial Board.
kevin egan is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry in Drexel University’s Pennoni Honors College. The center houses the Custom-Designed Major, which Egan helped launch. He has served as academic adviser, instructor, and primary administrator for the major. Egan was a visiting fellow for Drexel’s Great Works Symposium. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Penn State.
elizabeth guertin is the assistant vice provost for undergraduate education and executive director of advising at Indiana University Bloomington. She previously served at Virginia Tech, where she was founding director of an advising program, and at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was assistant dean and founding director for an advising program in the College of Arts and Sciences.
michael kirk-kuwaye (Ph.D. educational psychology, University of Hawai’i) is a faculty specialist/academic adviser in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences Student Academic Services department at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He has published in the areas of assessment of advising, transfer and at-risk students, and advising methods. He was an associate investigator for a study on transfer students.
marc lowenstein holds degrees in philosophy from Colgate University and the University of Rochester. He taught philosophy at several institutions and [End Page v] was an administrator at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (retired in 2012). He has published on ethics in academic advising and the theory and philosophy of advising and frequently speaks at advising conferences.
rachel most is the associate dean for undergraduate academic programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia and a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. She regularly teaches a range of archaeology classes.
dominic sano-franchini is an academic adviser in the university studies program at Virginia Tech and teaches a First-Year Experience course. He earned an M.A. in Eastern classics from St. John’s College and an M.A. in religion from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. His research interests include Japanese religions in the United States and theory and philosophy of academic advising.
john sopper holds a master’s degree in religious studies from Princeton University. He has taught general education and humanities courses in the University of North Carolina–Greensboro Religious Studies Department. He directed the Ione Grogan Residential College before becoming executive director and then associate dean of undergraduate studies. Sopper serves as a chair in the University Teaching and Learning Commons.
chad wellmon is an associate professor of German studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author most recently of Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). [End Page vi]
