Contributors
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Robert W. Barnett is a professor of rhetoric and composition, and currently interim dean of the School of Education and Human Services, at the University of Michigan–Flint. His current research explores the relationship between institutional culture and institutional change (rbarnett@umflint.edu).
Meredith S. Billings is a senior research analyst. Billings received her B.S. in neuroscience from the College of William and Mary (2004) and her M.A. in higher education from the University of Maryland (2008). Before joining the Tufts staff, she worked at Middlebury College and the University of Maryland (meredith.billings@tufts.edu).
Mark E. Engberg is an assistant professor of higher education at Loyola University, Chicago. His research examines the educational benefits of diversity in higher education, college impact, and pathways to college for underserved populations (mengber@luc.edu).
Susan Gano-Phillips is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan–Flint. She co-chaired the General Education Design task force, served on the implementation committee, and was a Fulbright fellow at City University of Hong Kong. Her publications focus on curricular change in general education and faculty development (sganop@umflint.edu).
Joan Hawthorne is the director of assessment and accreditation at the University of North Dakota. She teaches in education and honors, and her recent publications are focused on assessment and general education (joan.hawthorne@und.edu).
Jody E. Jessup-Anger is an assistant professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies at Marquette University. Her research explores how the dynamic interaction of students and their environments promotes learning and development (jody.jessupanger@marquette.edu). [End Page v]
Jessica Jonson is a director of institutional assessment at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). She has a Ph.D. in educational psychology and teaches graduate courses for the Quantitative, Qualitative, and Psychometric Methods program. Jonson served on the committee that developed UNL’s new outcome-based general education program, Achievement-Centered Education (jjonson@unlnotes.unl.edu).
Anne Kelsch directs the Office of Instructional Development at the University of North Dakota. She co-led the General Education Task Force that created the university’s new Essential Studies Program and is an associate professor of history. Her current research interests lie in pedagogy and faculty development (anne.kelsch@und.edu).
Nancy D. Mitchell, Ph.D., is the director of general education in the Office of Undergraduate Studies and a professor of advertising in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (nmitchell1@unl.edu).
Thomas F. Nelson Laird is an associate professor of higher education at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he manages the Center for Postsecondary Research’s Faculty Survey of Student Engagement. His work focuses on improving collegiate teaching and learning, particularly the design, delivery, and effects of student experiences with diversity (tflaird@indiana.edu).
Dawn Geronimo Terkla is the associate provost for institutional research, assessment, and evaluation at Tufts University and the university’s accreditation liaison officer. She has a doctorate in higher education research from Harvard University, and her research interests include college-choice decisions, financial aid, retention, management information, quality assurance, assessment, and evaluation. [End Page vi]
