GEORGE R. BOGGS is president and CEO emeritus of the American Association of Community Colleges and superintendent/president of Palomar College in San Marcos, California. An active author and speaker, Boggs is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Public Broadcasting System's Terry O'Banion Prize for Teaching and Learning for "triggering the most significant educational movement of the past decade."

CHRISTINE J. MCPHAIL is the managing principal for the McPhail Group LLC, a higher education consulting firm, former president of Cypress College, emerita professor of higher education and founder of the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University, and a coach for Achieving the Dream, a national nonprofit reform network dedicated to community college student success and completion. She is a recipient of the AACC National Leadership Award and the League for Innovation in the Community College Terry O'Banion Leadership Award. McPhail is the editor of one of AACC's best-selling publications, Establishing and Sustaining Learning Centered Community Colleges.