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Janice M. Abraham joined United Educators Insurance as president and CEO in January 1998. She is also president and CEO of United Educators Management Company. She has over 15 years of experience in higher education. She has been chief financial officer and treasurer at Whitman College, held various senior positions at Cornell University, and was a staff associate at the National Association of College and University Business Officers. She also served as an international banker for J.P. Morgan.

She serves on the boards of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America and United Educators. She is a former president of the Western Association of College and University Business Officers and a past member of the boards of NACUBO and the National Risk Retention Association.

She holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in international studies from American University.

She was named one of the 100 top women in insurance by Business Insurance magazine and the 2004 Insurance Woman of the Year by the Association of Professional Insurance Women. She received a 2005 Professional Development Award from NACUBO.

Yale Asbell is president and sole stockholder of Yale Asbell P.C. of Cherry Hill, N.J. He is a nationally recognized authority on community bank stock investments. He graduated magna cum laude from Dickinson College and from Rutgers University School of Law.

The Asbell family has had ties to Dickinson for over 80 years, counting 13 family members as graduates. Mr. Asbell served for five years on the college Board of Trustees and made numerous gifts to the college during that time. These include a fully endowed chair, refurbishment of the admissions house, the establishment of a center for Jewish life, and the creation and financing of the Global Campus Scholarship program. That scholarship fund, the largest of its kind at Dickinson, has brought 21 students from South America for an undergraduate education. He provides funds for seven other scholarships at the College.

In 2004, he was elected to the board of trustees of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He serves on the development, investment, and long-range-planning committees. Through the seminary he has been a key supporter of its sister institutions in Argentina and Israel. Last year he was honored as the first recipient from the mid-Atlantic region of the Chancellor's Minyan Award reflecting his board leadership and service in support of the chancellor and the mission of the seminary.

Senator Baucus has been a public servant for more than 30 years.

After graduating from Stanford Law School, he opened a law practice in Missoula, Mont., in 1971. He then served as executive director and committee coordinator for Montana's 1972 Constitutional Convention, which crafted what was considered one of the most farsighted state constitutions in the nation.

In 1973, he was elected to the Montana Legislature. He served as a state representative from Missoula until his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974. He was re-elected in 1976, then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978, where he has served consecutively ever since.

Senator Baucus currently serves as chairman of the influential U.S. Senate Finance Committee, a panel on which he has served for 26 years.

In addition to chairing the Finance Committee, he is a senior member of three other Senate panels: the Agriculture Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Joint Committee on Taxation.

In her 19 years as a reporter and editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Goldie Blumenstyk has covered topics touching every corner of higher education: state politics, finance and management, fund raising, distance education, the Internet boom and bust, and technology transfer. She is now a senior writer in the Money & Management section specializing in academe's ties with business as well as the fast-growing industry of for-profit higher education.

She earned a bachelor's degree from Colgate University and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining The Chronicle, she worked for eight years at The Orlando Sentinel, where she was the city hall reporter.

Mickey L. Burnim became the 10th president of Bowie State University in Bowie, Md., on September 1, 2006. Prior to arriving at Bowie, he served as chancellor for eleven years at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. He ushered in an era of qualitative improvement and growth at Elizabeth City State, leading the development of a comprehensive strategic plan; initiating new business, civic and educational partnerships; establishing the university's first two endowed professorships and new baccalaureate and master's degree programs; leading the development of a campus computer network; directing the creation of a comprehensive enrollment management and marketing plan that has pushed enrollment to record levels; and overseeing the largest construction and renovation project ever undertaken there.

He has also served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at North Carolina Central University, assistant vice president for academic affairs in the University of North Carolina system, a staff economist at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and a faculty member and researcher at the Florida State University.

He has earned three degrees in economics: bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His fields of specialization are public finance and labor economics.

Judge José A. Cabranes was serving as chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut when he was appointed to the Court of Appeals. Judge Cabranes was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and at the age of 5 moved with his family to New York City. After attending public schools in New York, he graduated from Columbia College, Yale Law School, and the University of Cambridge, in England. He was general counsel of Yale University before he was appointed to the federal bench in 1979.

He is the author of Citizenship and the American Empire, a legislative history of the United States citizenship of the people of Puerto Rico, and (with Kate Stith) of Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts, which received the Certificate of Merit of the American Bar Association (1999).

He served as a trustee of Colgate University from 1981 to 1990, of Yale University from 1987 to 1999, and is now a trustee of Columbia University.

In 2000 he received the Federal Bar Council's Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence.

When Bob Connor joined the Teagle Foundation as its new president in May 2003, it was his third career. After undergraduate work at Hamilton College and graduate work at Oxford and Princeton Universities, he taught classics and ancient Greek history at the University of Michigan and then at Princeton. On leaving Princeton in 1989 he became director of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, an independent center for advanced study in literature, history, and the other humanistic fields. Soon after retiring from the NHC, he joined the Teagle Foundation. "I valued the chance to work with a foundation that has been committed to strengthening higher education ever since Walter Teagle established it in 1944," he says. "I want the Teagle Foundation to do everything it can to carry on that tradition, particularly in the liberal arts."

His best known book is his study of the ancient historical writer Thucydides (Thucydides, Princeton University Press, 1984) but he has published extensively on Athenian political and cultural history, and on liberal education.

Frank Craighill has served as chairman of Helios Partners Inc., a consulting firm focused primarily on assisting Olympic bid cities and Olympic sponsors develop their marketing and communications strategies, since its founding in 2004. Widely regarded as a leading authority and influential voice in Olympic sponsorship, he was part of the team that pioneered the modern approach to global Olympic sponsorship in the early 1980's.

In 1970, he co-founded Dell, Craighill, Fentress & Benton, one of the first sports-management firms, representing such athletes as Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe. When the firm evolved into ProServ in 1976, he became its president.

In 1983, he left ProServ to co-found Advantage International. He served as co-chairman of Advantage until it was acquired in 1997 by the Interpublic Group, one of the world's largest advertising and marketing-communications firms. He became the company's president, and in 2000, he took over as deputy chairman of Octagon Worldwide, Interpublic's sports-marketing and event division.

He is chairman of the Washington Area Steering Committee for the $2-billion Carolina First Campaign at the University of North Carolina and is a member of the board of the Morehead Scholarship Foundation in Chapel Hill, N.C. He has also served as chairman of the board of trustees and chaired a capital campaign for Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg.

He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia Law School.

At Caltech, Dean Currie oversees all finance and administration activities, including investments, information technology, sponsored research, facilities, capital projects, human resources, and security, as well as the treasurer's, controller's, and budget offices.

Prior to coming to Caltech, he was vice president for finance and administration at Rice University. He has also served as associate dean for administration and policy planning, assistant dean for educational affairs, and director of admissions and financial aid at Harvard Business School.

He earned both bachelor's and MBA degrees from Harvard. He has served on the boards of NACUBO, the Council on Government Relations, the Tuition Plan I529 Consortium, the YMCA of the Rockies, China International Trade Associates, and the Joslin Diabetes Center, as well as the visiting committee for Harvard College.

Over the past 20 years, Patricia Digh has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit, corporate, and educational institutions and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences. She has served on diversity advisory councils for the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, the National American Red Cross, the AARP, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, among others.

She was vice president for international and diversity programs at the Society for Human Resource Management, which has more than 200,000 members. She is a co-founder of The Circle Project, in which business advisers and trainers focus on helping individuals and organizations become more inclusive.

Her first book, Global Literacies: Lessons on Business Leadership and National Cultures (Simon & Schuster 2000) was selected by Fortune magazine as a "Best Business Book" for 2000. Her second book, The Global Diversity Desk Reference, was published in 2003 by John Wiley. Her latest book, 37days, is slated for publication in 2007. She is also the author of the award-winning blog 37days.

She is a faculty member of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, and her comments have appeared on PBS, and in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and Financial Times, among other publications. She has written more than 75 published articles on business strategy, leadership, diversity, and globalization issues and has lived, worked, and traveled in more than 60 countries.

Rufus Glasper was appointed Maricopa County Community College District chancellor in September 2003. He has served the district since 1986, holding several leadership roles, including executive vice chancellor for human resources and administration and director of finance. He is also an adjunct professor at Arizona State University.

He has served on the boards of the Arizona Health Facilities Authority, Greater Phoenix Leadership, Valley of the Sun United Way, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Urban League, Black Family Child Services, and Arizona Society of Public Accountants.

He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Luther College, a master's and advanced degrees in school business administration from Northern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in higher-education finance from the University of Arizona. He received the Kellogg Foundation Fellowship in Community College Leadership in 1989-1990 and the NAACP Roy Wilkins Award in 1997.

Stephen Golding was recently named the Samuel W. Bodman Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration at Cornell. He comes to Cornell from the University of Colorado system, for which he served as vice president for budget and finance and CFO. Before going to Colorado, he was with Morgan Stanley Investment Management for six years as head of eleemosynary, or philanthropic, marketing and client services. He was vice president for finance and CFO at the University of Pennsylvania from 1994 to 1997. He joined the Penn administration in 1991 as executive director of resource planning and budget.

He has also served in state government in Delaware, first as director of administration in the Department of Transportation from 1981 to 1983 and then as the state's budget director and then secretary of finance from 1983 to 1991, positions in which he reported to two successive governors.

He serves on the Board of Visitors and Governors for Washington College and is an ex-officio member of the National Association of State Budget Officers. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Washington College in 1972 and a master's degree in political science from the University of Delaware in 1982.

Jo Ann M. Gora began serving as Ball State University's 14th president on August 9, 2004. Since her arrival, she has established a scholarship fund with money saved by forgoing a traditional inauguration ceremony, set a goal of making immersive learning the hallmark of every student's college experience, and championing a greater commitment to leading-edge technology infrastructure and creating nationally-ranked academic programs.

She has also set in motion an update of the university's strategic plan and energized the university's economic-development initiative. She successfully led a one-year $12-million capital campaign (surpassing the goal by $1.6 million) to renovate Ball State Football Stadium. In fiscal year 2006, the university raised $38-million in private gifts.

She came to Ball State from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where she was named chancellor in August 2001. During her tenure there, she played a pivotal role in expanding the honors college, developing an interdisciplinary public-policy graduate center, enhancing community outreach, increasing the level of external research support, and improving the instructional technology infrastructure

Sara Hebel is a senior reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education who covers state politics and policy makers. She writes about public colleges and state systems of higher education, including issues related to their governance, finances, and admissions policies. Before joining The Chronicle in 1999, she spent almost four years covering Congress for an online news service affiliated with The Washington Post Company. She earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Sheila Johnson plays a major role in philanthropy. An accomplished violinist, she seeks to make opportunities available for children and young adults to express their creativity through the arts and to ensure that the world is a safe place for children.

She is chairman of the board of directors of Parsons The New School for Design and sits on the boards of the Whitney Museum, VH1-Save the Music, the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, the United States Equestrian Federation, Episcopal High School, the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, the Curry School of Education Foundation at the University of Virginia, the SUNY Morrisville Foundation, the University of Illinois Foundation, the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, and the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. She has been a significant donor to each of those organizations.

She has also given to the United Negro College Fund; Bennett College, to strengthen their program in the arts; and the State University of New York at Morrisville, to promote diversity of students and staff. Her support of the arts in education for children has included gifts to Strings for Schools, in Philadelphia; Urban Gateways, in Chicago; and the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, to offer early-childhood-education programs. She also established the Sheila C. Johnson Performing Arts Center at the Hill School in Middleburg, Va.

As an advocate for the protection of children, she has spoken around the world on behalf of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children and currently serves as an ambassador for CARE. She has always been committed to enhancing the life of children. As a co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, her crowning achievement was the development of an award-winning weekly program Teen Summit, giving teenagers a chance to talk frankly about their critical issues. In business, she is CEO of Salamander Hospitality LLC and a partner in Lincoln Holdings LLC. She is president, managing partner, and governor for the Washington Mystics basketball team. Lincoln Holdings owns the Mystics and the Washington Capitals hockey team and has a minority interest in Washington Sports and Entertainment Limited Partnership, which controls the Washington Wizards and the management of the Verizon Center, in Washington, and the George Mason University Patriot Center.

Audrey Williams June is a staff writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education where she writes about the higher-education bond market, auxiliary services, facilities, and workforce issues. She came to The Chronicle six years ago from a stint as a business reporter at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. At The Observer, she chronicled the ups and downs of entrepreneurs before becoming a banking reporter in a city that holds its ties to NASCAR and its stance as the nation's second largest financial center in high esteem.

Prior to her arrival in North Carolina, she was an environmental reporter for The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. She is a graduate of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Fla. where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism.

Rick Legon was selected as the fourth president of the Association of Governing Boards in January 2006. He previously served as AGB's executive vice president and has been with the association since 1983.

Along with the AGB board of directors, he has developed a new and aggressive strategic plan for the association that emphasizes and supports the new work of boards. The plan is highlighted by the association's focus on original research, expanded services, and serving as the voice for higher education governance with policymakers. He has overseen the development of AGB's portfolio of services for institution-related foundations and their boards, and has written widely on matters of governance. His most recent publication is The Margin of Excellence: The New Work of Public Higher Education Foundations.

He has served as a board member of the University of Charleston, in West Virginia, and currently serves on the board of Virginia State University. He holds a master's in public administration from George Washington University.

Prior to joining AGB, he served on the U.S. Postal Commission, worked with former Mayor Daley in Chicago, and was director of development at Spertus College, in Chicago.

Arthur Levine is the sixth president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Before his appointment at Woodrow Wilson, he was president and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has also served as chair of the higher education program, chair of the Institute for Educational Management, and senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

He is the author of dozens of articles and reviews. His most recent book is When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student (with Jeanette S. Cureton). Much of his research and writing in recent years has focused on increasing access to higher education and improving equity in elementary and secondary schools. He has written numerous opinion articles in such publications as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

He has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, as well as the American Council on Education's Book of the Year award (for Reform of Undergraduate Education), the Educational Press Association's annual award for writing (three times), and 17 honorary degrees.

He sits on the boards of Blackboard Inc., DePaul University, and All Kinds of Minds. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also president of Bradford College and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation and Carnegie Council for Policy Studies in Higher Education. He received his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

S. Catherine (Katy) Longley is the senior vice president of finance and administration and treasurer at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Since 2002, she has been the college's chief financial and administrative officer overseeing an annual budget of approximately $106 million. Her division includes facilities management, events and summer programs, the controller's office, human resources, dining services, and the bookstore.

Prior to joining Bowdoin, she served as the commissioner of the Department of Professional & Financial Regulation in the cabinet of Governor Angus King of Maine. That agency regulated insurance, banking, securities, consumer credit, and several professional licensing boards. She practiced corporate law at Verrill & Dana LLC in Portland, Maine, from 1983-1995, and was appointed a partner in 1990.

She currently serves as a member of the Local Redevelopment Authority for the Brunswick Naval Air Station, is a board member of Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Company in Portland, and is a corporator of Bangor Savings Bank. She received her bachelor's degree in history from Bowdoin College and her law degree from Suffolk University Law School.

Damien Madsen brings nearly 20 years of experience in commercial real-estate brokerage to Broad Street Partners. He has been a leader in the Orlando, Fla., commercial real-estate market, successfully completing nearly three million square feet of transactions valued at approximately $750-million. In 1997, he started Orlando's SouthPark Center and has helped develop and lease its nine new office buildings, totaling 1.3 million square feet. He was selected as "Office Broker of the Year" three times by the Central Florida Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks.

He entered the commercial real-estate business as a commissioned agent after graduating from the University of Central Florida in 1986 with a degree in finance. During his career, he served as senior vice president of Harbert Realty Services, executive director of Advantis, and senior director of leasing for the Flagler Development Company.

Sonya E. Medina serves as the director of the AT&T Foundation, one of the 10 largest corporate foundations in the United States. She works on the foundation's efforts to strengthen communities, improve access to information technology and technology training, advance education, and enhance professional-skills development.

From 2001 through the fall of 2006, she served in the White House as special assistant to the president for domestic policy and as director of projects for the First Lady. In this capacity she was the key adviser to President Bush on areas of education policy, from early childhood through higher education. In addition, she oversaw First Lady Laura Bush's projects and policy office, where she worked on a variety of issues in education, women's and children's health, and global diplomacy. Ms. Medina also served as a presidential appointee on the board of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

Prior to joining the White House staff, she served as a senior analyst for health care at the Republican National Committee for the 2000 election cycle. From 1999 through early 2000, she worked for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the GeoPolitical Division, with a focus on health care in East Timor, Chechnya, and Kosovo.

She has been honored as Hispanic Magazine's recipient of the 2005 Government Service Achievement Award and serves as co-chair of the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy's executive board at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Most recently, she was appointed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to serve on the Commission for a College Ready Texas, an effort that will provide leadership and guidance to improve college-readiness programs by aligning high-school curricula with college standards.

She earned a master's of public health from Columbia University and graduated cum laude from Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in community health education.

Alice R. Miller brings 30 years of experience to her position as executive-search consultant. Alice has worked for some of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country, including Emory University and North Carolina State University, where she developed solutions to complex organizational and recruitment issues. Well-respected for her organizational development and strategic-planning expertise, Alice is an honors graduate of Cornell University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in industrial and labor relations and her master's degree with high honors in economics and organizational behavior. For Witt/Kieffer, Alice conducts senior-level executive searches for colleges, universities, national educational associations, health-care organizations, hospitals, and not-for-profit organizations.

Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of The Wall Street Journal's weekly "Personal Technology" column, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He is also the co-creator and co-producer of the annual technology-industry conference "D: All Things Digital," held by the Journal each spring. In addition to "Personal Technology", he writes the "Mossberg's Mailbox" column in the Journal, and edits the "Mossberg Solution" column. On television, he is a regular technology commentator for the CNBC network. Online, he is the co-executive editor of the technology Web site allthingsd.com, which extends the experience of the D conference to the Web.

In a major 2004 profile of him, entitled "The Kingmaker," Wired magazine declared: "Few reviewers have held so much power to shape an industry's successes and failures. ... Chances are he has influenced the look, feel and performance of your laptop, mobile phone, and MP3 player."

He has been a reporter and editor at the Journal since 1970 and is based in the Journal's Washington, D.C., office. A native of Warwick, Rhode Island, he holds degrees from Brandeis University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Stacy Palmer is editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has served as a top editor since the newspaper was founded in 1988 and has overseen the development of its Web sites, http://philanthropy.com and Philanthropy Careers, http://philanthropycareers.com. She has appeared frequently on radio and television to offer commentary on news in the nonprofit world. She is also editor of Challenges for Philanthropy and Nonprofits, a book published by the University Press of New England that collects three decades of observations by the nonprofit activist and Chronicle of Philanthropy columnist Pablo Eisenberg.

Before she joined The Chronicle of Philanthropy, she was editor for government and politics at The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is a graduate of Brown University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in international relations.

The Institute for Effective Governance is a service organization for college and university trustees nationwide. Prior to joining IEG, Ms. Palmiero was a consultant in government, public policy, and higher education.

From 1999 to 2003, she served as executive director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the coordinating body for the 11th largest higher-education system in the United States, serving more than 400,000 students. She developed policy in the areas of academic and student affairs, institutional research, budgeting and finance, capital planning, state financial aid and other college programs, information technology, and human resources.

From 1991 to 1999, she served in various capacities at the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget, including deputy director for policy; manager of elementary, secondary, and higher education; and senior education analyst. Before her work in Virginia education policy and finance, she was an associate at the investment bank Salomon Brothers Inc. and a budget analyst in New York City's Office of Management and Budget.

She serves on the board of the Partnership for the Future and the steering committee of the University of Virginia Patient and Friends Cancer Research Fund, and was appointed by the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates to serve on the Joint Subcommittee Studying Public Funding for Higher Education in Virginia. She is the 2002 recipient of the YWCA Outstanding Women Award in Government and Politics and the author of Governance in the Public Interest: A Case Study of the University of North Carolina System.

She holds an MBA in finance and a bachelor's degree in economics from Fordham University.

Anita Pampusch became the second president of the Bush Foundation in 1997. As the second-largest private foundation in Minnesota ($850-million in assets), the Bush Foundation grants $35-million to $40-million annually to education, arts and humanities, human services and health, environmental organizations, as well as offering fellowships for individuals.

Prior to coming to the Bush Foundation, she served in several capacities at the College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, Minn.), including 13 years as its president. She was named president emeritus in 2005. She has been active on numerous boards and committees, including serving as a director of the St. Paul Companies and chairing the boards of the Women's College Coalition, the Council of Independent Colleges, and the William Mitchell College of Law. She is a trustee of the University of Notre Dame, the Alliss Foundation, Northstar Educational Finance, and the Hennepin County Medical Center.

She holds master's and doctoral degrees in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and has received five honorary degrees.

Frank Rhodes was president of Cornell University for 18 years before retiring in 1995. He previously served as vice president for academic affairs and dean at the University of Michigan. He was also a professor, department head, and dean at the University of Wales, Swansea, and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and the University of Durham in Britain.

He is a graduate of the University of Birmingham, England, from which he holds four degrees; a former Fulbright scholar and Fullbright distinguished fellow; a National Science Foundation senior visiting research fellow; and a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and Trinity College, Oxford. A geologist by training, he has published widely in the fields of geology, paleontology, evolution, the history of science, and education. His books include Language of the Earth, The Evolution of Life, Geology, Evolution, Fossils and his recently published The Creation of the Future: The Role of the American University. He is the recipient of over 35 honorary degrees. He is immediate past president of the American Philosophical Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is a former chairman of the National Science Board, and was appointed by President Bush to the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He was chairman of the 1987 National Commission on Minority Participation in Education and American Life that produced the report "One-Third of a Nation." He was also a member of the Association of Governing Boards' 1996 Commission on Renewing the Academic Presidency. He has served on numerous boards and received many awards.

Lawrence M. Schall was elected the 16th president of Oglethorpe University in March 2005. Born in Manhattan, he grew up in Wilmington, Del. He graduated with honors from Swarthmore College in 1975 and went on to earn a law degree in 1978 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He practiced law as a trial lawyer for the next seven years, specializing in civil-rights litigation with a focus on children's rights and public-assistance issues.

In 1990, he returned to Swarthmore, where he served in various capacities for 15 years, leaving as vice president for administration. While at Swarthmore, he was awarded a doctorate in higher education from the University of Pennsylvania. From 2003 until 2005, he served as co-director of Penn's Executive Doctorate Program and as an adjunct faculty member of Penn's Graduate School of Education.

Prior to becoming president of the University of Rochester, Joel Seligman held several key positions at top law schools. He was dean of the Washington University School of Law, dean and Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law at the University of Arizona College of Law, and professor at the law schools of the University of Michigan, the George Washington University, and Northeastern University.

One of the nation's leading experts on securities law, he is the author or co-author of 20 books and more than 40 articles on legal issues related to securities and corporations. He is the co-author, with the late Louis Loss, of the 11-volume Securities Regulation, the leading treatise in the field; author of The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporation Finance and the casebook Corporations: Cases and Materials;and co-author (with John C. Coffee Jr. of the Columbia University law-school faculty) of the leading casebook Securities Regulations: Cases and Materials.

He has served as reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Revision of Uniform Securities Act; as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Market Information; and as a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Professional Ethics Executive Committee. He is a member of the board of the National Association of Securities Dealers.

He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a law degree from Harvard University.

Jeffrey Selingo is an assistant managing editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He directs The Chronicle's coverage of federal and state higher-education policy, campus leadership, fund raising, and endowment management. In addition to editing, he writes about college presidents and finance issues, among other topics and oversaw The Chronicle's first-ever surveys of college presidents and trustees. His work at The Chronicle has been honored with a National Award for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, a Dateline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and finalist status for a Livingston Award in the national reporting category.

Prior to coming to Washington, he was the environmental reporter for Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News. He also worked for The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal, and as a recipient of the Pulliam Journalism Fellowship, covered business technology for The Arizona Republic. He received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Ithaca College, and a master's degree in government from The Johns Hopkins University.

Phil Semas has been editor in chief of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. since 2002. He oversees all editorial and business operations of the company, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, their Web sites, and Arts & Letters Daily.

Before becoming editor in chief, he served for seven years as editor of new media for The Chronicle. He oversaw all online activities by both newspapers, including their Web sites and e-mail newsletters. The Chronicle of Higher Education's Web site has won numerous awards. The Chronicle and its Web site have also been nominated for nine National Magazine Awards.

He is the founding editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, which began publication in 1988. He edited the newspaper for its first seven years. He began his career at The Chronicle as a reporter in 1969 and served as managing editor from 1978 to 1988.

Mary Spilde has served as president of Lane Community College, in Eugene, Ore., since August 2001. She joined Lane in 1995 as vice president for instructional services. In 1997, she became vice president for instruction and student services.

Prior to her service at Lane she spent 15 years at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Ore., where she held a variety of positions, including dean of business, health, and training. She earned a bachelor's degree in business and social systems and a law degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a master's in adult education and a doctorate in post-secondary education at Oregon State University.

She serves on the executive committee of the League for Innovation in the Community College and the board of the American Association of Community Colleges. She is on the faculty of the National Institute for Leadership Development and of the League's Executive Leadership Institute. She was president of the American Association of Women in Community Colleges from 2002 to 2004 and still sits on its board.

She served on the Oregon Workforce Quality Council for six years and currently serves on the Oregon Workforce Investment Board, as well as numerous local boards.

Laura Trombley has facilitated tremendous growth at Pitzer College during her four-year tenure. Under her leadership, the endowment has nearly doubled; applications for admission have increased by nearly 50 percent; Pitzer's standing in national college rankings has risen dramatically; and national student awards have hit a historical high.

She is an active leader in higher education. Featured as one of five Rising Stars among college presidents nationwide in University Business magazine, she is a member of the Council of Presidents of the Association of Governing Boards and a commissioner for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

She has published two scholarly books on Mark Twain and is completing her third. She earned her doctorate in English from the University of Southern California and bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Pepperdine University.

Allison Vaillancourt is associate vice president for human resources at the University of Arizona and teaches in the university's Eller College of Management. She consults and speaks nationally on issues related to strategic planning, management, human resources, organizational culture, and communication.

Prior to her career in human resources, she held roles ranging from medical research program manager to fund raiser to journalist, and she uses those experiences to inform her work in human resources. She is president-elect of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), a research adviser for the Bureau of National Affairs, an editorial board member for HR on Campus, and an editorial review member for the Society for Human Resource Management.

Marty Van Der Werf rejoined The Chronicle in June 2006, and covers endowments, financial management, legal affairs, town-gown concerns, and other issues, in addition to helping edit the Money & Management section. He was at The Chronicle from 1999 to 2003, when he was a reporter and editor in the Money & Management section. During his time away, he was a goverment reporter and later, a business columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Earlier in his career, he worked for The Arizona Republic. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University.