MARK LANGSETH has served as founding executive director of Minnesota Campus Compact (1994-present) and founding director of the Minnesota Campus Service Initiative (1987-1994), the nation’s first such statewide effort. He initiated Minnesota campus Compact’s ground-breaking Chief Academic Officers’ Initiative for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement in 1999.

WILLIAM M. PLATER has served as the chief academic officer at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) since 1987 and as interim president in 2002-2003. he has also served as dean of liberal arts and professor of English at IUPUI. He has written extensively on the changing nature of faculty work and, more broadly, higher education.

SCOTT DILLON is an undergraduate student in the college of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and production assistant for the University of Minnesota Press. He is currently researching the importance of the written word in both literature and journalism.