Elizabeth F. Barkley is professor of music at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. She is also is a national Carnegie Scholar and was named California’s 1998 Higher Education Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

K. Patricia Cross is professor of higher education, emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author or coauthor of seven Jossey-Bass books, including Accent on Learning, Adults as Learners, Classroom Assessment Techniques, and Classroom Research.

Claire Howell Major is associate professor of higher education administration at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa instead of University of Alabama in Birmingham.