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 Russ Adkins is Associate Vice President for Instructional Technology at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has been responsible for expanding flexible learning opportunities for students, developing successful on-line learning programs, and for assessing student learning outcomes. He recently led Broward College through a successful substantive change request to offer degrees fully on-line. Russ helps colleges launch e-learning endeavors and with issues associated with distance education and accreditation
 Alice Bedard-Voorhees specializes in design and delivery of on-line education, faculty development, and assessment techniques for distance delivery. Her experience includes engineering statewide common course numbering and competency-based learning systems, corporate training, and creation of modularized curriculum for workforce development. Recently selected as the first K. Patricia Cross fellow by the League for Innovation in the Community College, Alice serves Director of Teaching and Learning Innovations at Colorado Mountain College and is the principal of Trainers-Online.Com.
 Jing Luan is Vice Chancellor for Educational Services and Planning, at California's San Mateo County Community College District. In addition to his knowledge of community college academic and technical programming, Jing brings extensive expertise in turning data into actionable information to the Group. A former director of institutional research he also brings a background in business intelligence tools for decision support reporting and experience in managing adata warehousing project for the world's largest postsecondary education system, the California Community Colleges. An early implementer of innovative data techniques in higher education, he has presented workshops on data mining and knowledge management internationally. He has served as president of the California Association for Institutional Research and the National Council for Research and Planning. Dr. Luan is a native Chinese speaker.
 Irving Pressley McPhail is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME). A veteran teacher, scholar, advocate and senior executive in higher education, he has served as chancellor of The Community College of Baltimore County, president of St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, and president of LeMoyne-Owen College. His areas of focus include the learning paradigm and the learning college, research-based "best practices" in developmental education and learning assistance, African American cognitive style and learning strategies, closing the racial and socioeconomic achievement gap, literacy education; strategic planning, budgeting, and resource allocation; and institutional assessment and organizational effectiveness reviews.
 John A. Muffo specializes in assessment, including the evaluation of academic programs and learning systems. He has been active in promoting professional development among international higher organizations for several decades and is a frequent contributor to the literature of institutional research. His career includes service at the Ohio Board of Regents, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, Cleveland State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. John also has been a reviewer for the Southern Association for Colleges and Schools on Institutional Effectiveness. He is retired from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) after 20 years of service, the last 15 as Director of the Academic Assessment Program.
 Robert Reichardt is the owner of R-Squared Research, a firm that provides applied research, evaluation, and policy analysis to support improved policy and educational outcomes. Dr. Reichardt's expertise includes systemic reform, school finance, and teacher labor markets. He has provided research support to state legislators, state boards of education as well as evaluation of state education reforms. He has extensive experience working with large administrative databases. His experience includes running a statewide non-profit focused on improving educator quality and work as researcher at a Regional Education Laboratory.
 Theresa Rosner-Salazar is owner of Rosner-Salazar & Associates and co-founder of Research Evaluation Associates for Latinos (REAL) located in Denver. She is a psychologist and evaluator engaged in evaluation consulting, program development, mental health consultation, and diversity training for organizations serving multicultural populations. She has served as an evaluator, technical assistance provider for K-12, non-profit organizations, higher education, and community colleges in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and California. Dr. Rosner-Salazar teaches masters and doctoral level courses in program development and evaluation at University of Denver and Regis University. She also is also the recipient of the Marcia Guttentag Award from the American Evaluation Association.
 Raj Sharma has been active in promoting the internationalization of institutional research, being the founding member of Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR) in 1988 and South East Asian Association for Institutional Research in 2000. Raj has undertaken a number of consultancies and IR projects for the various state and national bodies including a national project on efficiency and effectiveness of distance education, development of the national higher education relative funding model, projects on student progress for the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee and workforce planning project for the Victorian State Parliament. He has served Swinburne University of Technology for 17 years
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 Greg P. Smith a psychologist by training, Greg has led statewide community college initiatives in policy analysis and development, planning, and research. Greg has expertise in postsecondary career and technical education, the development of accountability standards and measures, accreditation issues, program review and evaluation, research methodology, and applied statistics. His administrative and research background includes project administration, marketing, proposal writing, research and sampling design, questionnaire design, data analysis and synthesis. Dr. Smith is the President of Central Community College in Grand Island, Nebraska.
 Dawn Geronimo Terkla specializes in the creation of digital dashboards for colleges and univeristies to monitor critical processes and performance measures. Dawn also is a recognized authority in intra-institutional data sharing and has chaired several national higher education task forces. She is past chair of the executive committee for the National Postsecondary Cooperative. Dr. Terkla is the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment, and Evaluation at Tufts University.
 Robert Toutkoushian is an economist. He performs studies of faculty compensation including comparisons by gender, race/ethnicity, and experience, and peer institution comparisons. Rob also works with institutions and organizations to identify factors underlying student enrollment decisions including models of the interrelationships among enrollments, finances, and other objectives, and to identify the costs and benefits of various institutional and system strategies. He is Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University.
 Clifford M. Trump is a former state higher education executive officer for the state colleges of West Virginia and a former college president. Dr. Trump is in frequent demand as a speaker on issues facing higher education. His expertise is in executive management reviews and presidential searches and evaluation. He brings a wealth of higher education upper management experience and national work in policy to the Voorhees Group.
 Randall VanWagoner serves as president of Mohawk Community College in New York. Previously, he was Vice-President for Learning and Academic Affairs at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. He specializes in curriculum development, strategic planning, and workforce development. Dr. VanWagoner has also served as a community college institutional research director, Registrar, and chief student affairs officer.
 Danee Voorhees holds a Masters degree from the New School for Social Research in economics and is currently a PhD candidate in international development at Tulane University's Law School. Danee has been engaged in strategic planning work with the Voorhees Group LLC for five years. She is expert in demographic and labor market projections, economic development strategies, and project management.
 Richard A. "Rick" Voorhees is the principal of Voorhees Group. His background is in organizational change, micro- and macro-level assessment and evaluation, resource development and community colleges. He is a nationally-recognized resource for organizations facing challenges in the areas of accreditation, finance and financial aid policy, evaluation of distance education evaluation initiatives, and competency-based approaches to providing and evaluating student learning. He is a former member of the Accreditation Review Council for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. More details about Rick Voorhees.
 Patricia Windham specializes in database research and longitudinal studies. Her administrative and research background includes work at both the institutional and state system levels where she focused on institutional research and evaluation. Dr. Windham is the former Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research and Evaluation with the Florida Community College System and is currently acting as a consultant with the Achieving t he Dream national initiative
 John Wittstruck has extensive experience in leading statewide initiatives in planning, research, policy analysis and development. He has been engaged in institutional mission review and differentiation, performance measures and accountability, student financial assistance, and proprietary school certification. John's expertise also includes community colleges, postsecondary technical education, and research as well as information technology data processing and computer support. Dr. Wittstruck has served the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education in a variety of roles including that of Deputy Commissioner.
 Deying Zhou brings expertise in database management and statistical analysis to the Group. She has been instrumental in analyzing databases on the state, national, and local levels. Ms. Zhou also has more then 10 years experience in the field of institutional research.
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