Jo Arney was an Associate Professor and the Director of Student Success at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Prior to that she served four years as the Program Director for AASCU's Re-Imagining the First Year project.

Timothy Dale is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is the director of the first-year seminar program and co-chaired the Re-Imagining the First Year project at UW-La Crosse.

Glenn Davis is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Bowling Green State University. He was formerly a faculty member at St. Cloud State University, where he later served as Interim Dean of University College. He also served as a campus lead for the Re-Imagining the First Year project at SCSU.

Jillian Kinzie is Associate Director of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute. She is also a senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) project.