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Acknowledgments We want to extend our special thanks to the contributions of a number of individuals to this effort. They include David Abshire, Mariel Bailey, Jonathan Baugh, Audrey Benner, William Blanpied, Carol Blum, Jennifer Bond, Joanne Carney, Katharyn Cochrane, Dan Cohn, Dave Coverly, Benjamin Croner, Cinda Sue Davis, Tony DeCrappeo, Steve Dorman, Beth Demkowski, Jameson Dyal, Christine Feigal, Genene Fisher, Howard Gobstein, Robert Hardy, Lee Harle, Peter Harsha, Mary Hashman, Jeremy Herr, Erik Hoffmann, John E. Jankowski, Julia Jester, Dianne Jones, Gary Jones, Kei Koizumi, Ashley Martin, Natalia Melcer, Nicholas Moustakas, Bradley Nolen, Judy Nowack, Christian Osmeña, Marvin Parnes, Steven Pierson, Craig Rader, Carol Sickman-Garner, Sean Smith, Chelsea Stevens, Michael Telson, Bill Valdez, Jason Van Wey, Mike Waring, and Charles Wessner. There are others not mentioned who have reviewed parts of the text and contributed in various ways to this book. These include colleagues at the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the Association of American Universities as well as at other associations and federal agencies. Their contributions also deserve recognition. We wish to extend a special thanks to Jim Reische, our editor at the University of Michigan Press for most of this project, who, while leaving the Press before the book’s final publication, played a major role in helping it come to fruition. Finally, we hope the final publication of this work will help explain to our families why we had to spend the hours each week in extended Skype sessions as we labored in separate time zones to complete this project. We would like to acknowledge their support. ...

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