Authors

Scott Parker is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of English at Montana State University.

Azmi A. Ahmad is a postdoctoral scholar at Yale School of Medicine, chair of the National Postdoctoral Association Advocacy Committee, and a Public Voices fellow of the OpEd Project. The views expressed in this piece are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of Yale School of Medicine or the National Postdoctoral Association.

Margaret Moffett is a North Carolina-based journalist who frequently writes about higher education. Moffett was the editor of the 2022 book Broken: How Our Social Systems Are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them, by Paul J. LeBlanc, then-president of Southern New Hampshire University. She worked for three years as an adjunct instructor of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Brian Connolly is an associate professor of history at the University of South Florida.

Anthony Domestico is an associate professor of literature at Purchase College, State University of New York.

Jason Owen-Smith is a professor of sociology and research professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, where he is also the founding executive director of the Institute for Research on Innovation & Science. He is the author of Research Universities and the Public Good (Stanford University Press, 2018).

Jonathan Friedman is managing director for U.S. free-expression programs at PEN America.

Jacob L. Mackey is an associate professor of classics at Occidental College.

Fabio Rojas is a professor of sociology at Indiana University at Bloomington.

Lawrence M. Eppard is an associate professor of sociology and director of the Connors Institute for Nonpartisan Research and Civic Engagement at Shippensburg University.