Chantal Levesque-Bristol is the Executive Director of Center for Instructional Excellence and professor of Educational Psychology at Purdue University. She received her doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Ottawa. Her primary areas of interests are teaching and learning, motivation, educational psychology, faculty development, and institutional change. She is the Principal Investigator on a First in the World Grant from the Department of Education. George D. Kuh is Chancellor's Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at Indiana University and adjunct research professor of education policy at the University of Illinois.