Authors
Michael Ignatieff was Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest and Vienna between 2016 and 2021.
Alexandra Dufresne is a professor of the practice and director of the State Policy Advocacy Clinic at Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy.
Laurie Shanderson is the managing partner at Accreditation Insights, LLC and host of the Accreditation Insights podcast.
Greg D. Pillar is assistant provost for academic affairs at Gardner-Webb University.
Ernest Freeberg is a professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
David H. Guston is Foundation Professor at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society. His scholarly work has dwelt on the institutional relationships between science and democracy.
Laura Ann Rosenbury is the president of Barnard College.
Amy Morona is the higher education reporter for Signal Ohio, working in partnership with Open Campus. You can reach Amy at amy@signalcleveland.org.
Scott Spillman is an American historian and author of Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, From the Founding Era to Today (2025).
Alexander B. Joy manages the documentation department of a software company and is an independent scholar and writer. He earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2017. See more of his work at Alexanderbjoy.com.