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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 ([email protected]).

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 ([email protected]).

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 ([email protected]).

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 ([email protected]).

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 ([email protected]).

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 ([email protected]).