Matthew J. Mayhew is the William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Educational Administration at The Ohio State University.

Alyssa N. Rockenbach is professor of higher education at North Carolina State University.

Nicholas A. Bowman is an associate professor of higher education and student affairs as well as the director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa.

Tricia A. Seifert is an associate professor of adult and higher education at Montana State University and has a faculty appointment at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Gregory C. Wolniak is associate professor of higher education and director of the Center for Research on Higher Education Outcomes at New York University.

Ernest T. Pascarella is professor and the Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education at the University of Iowa.

Patrick T. Terenzini is distinguished professor and senior scientist emeritus in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University.

Pascarella and Terenzini are co-authors of the first two volumes of How College Affects Students.