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Ethan W. Ris
Ethan W. Ris is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research is on postsecondary policy and reform in the United States over the course of the 20th century. He is the author of Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2022), and has held research fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education, and the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.
Eddie R. Cole
Eddie R. Cole is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and History at UCLA and a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow. He is also the author of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2020). Professor Cole has received grants and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, the University of Chicago, and Princeton University. He has published in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.