Elijah Anderson is a professor of sociology at Yale University.
Joyce Appleby is a professor emerita of history at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Robin Marie Averbeck has a doctorate in American history from the University of California at Davis.
Alyssa Battistoni is a doctoral candidate in political science at Yale University.
Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University.
Keisha N. Blain is an assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa.
Steven G. Brint is a professor of sociology and public policy at the University of California at Riverside.
Greg Britton is editorial director at the Johns Hopkins University Press, and acquiring editor for books on higher education.
Bryan D. Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
Rebecca Chopp is chancellor of the University of Denver.
Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University.
N. D. B. Connolly is an associate professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University.
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a faculty associate with Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Ryan Craig is managing director of University Ventures, a private-equity fund.
Michael M. Crow has been president of Arizona State University since 2002.
Cathy N. Davidson is founding director of the Futures Initiative at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.
Richard Delgado is a professor of law at the University of Alabama.
Troy Duster is a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley.
Martin Finkelstein is a professor of higher education at Seton Hall University.
Joni E. Finney is a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education.
Daniel Greenstein is director of the program in postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Richard Greenwald is dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Richard Grusin is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Amy Gutmann is a political scientist and president of the University of Pennsylvania.
Jennifer Hochschild is a professor of government at Harvard University.
Jonathan Holloway is dean of Yale College and a professor of African-American studies, history, and American studies.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III is president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson is an assistant professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University.
John L. Jackson Jr. is dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ibram X. Kendi is an assistant professor of African-American history at the University of Florida.
Nannerl O. Keohane, a former president of Wellesley College and Duke University, is a senior scholar at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Adrianna Kezar is a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and co-director of USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education.
Walter M. Kimbrough is president of Dillard University.
Peter Lake is a law professor and director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University.
Earl Lewis is a social historian and president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Nancy Weiss Malkiel is a professor emerita of history at Princeton University.
Carolyn A. (Biddy) Martin is president of Amherst College and was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2008 to 2011.
Lynn Pasquerella is president of the Association of American Colleges & Universities and a former president of Mount Holyoke College.
Eduardo J. Padrón has served as president of Miami Dade College since 1995.
Corey Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.
Brian Rosenberg is president of Macalester College.
Jacqueline J. Royster is dean of the college of liberal arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she holds a chair in liberal arts and technology and is a professor of literature, media, and communication.
Jeffrey J. Selingo, a former editor of The Chronicle, is a writer and professor of practice/special adviser at Arizona State University and a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for 21st Century Universities.
Judith Shapiro is president of the Teagle Foundation and president emerita of Barnard College.
Mariko Silver is president of Bennington College.
G.T. (Buck) Smith has served as president of Chapman University, Bethany College (W.Va.), and Davis & Elkins College.
Margaret Spellings is president of the University of North Carolina.
Naomi Zack is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon.
