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​Phillips is Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics and senior vice dean of Columbia University Business School, where she has been since 2011. Previously she was associate professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and co-director and founder of Northwestern’s Center on the Science of Diversity. She also has been a visiting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and visiting scholar at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Phillips’s research explores the value of diversity and the barriers that prevent society, organizations, and especially work teams from comprehending the knowledge, perspectives, and backgrounds of each team member. Recently, Phillips has expanded her theoretical and empirical work on the small group processes and performance that are affected by diversity to include perceptions of worth and status that impact group composition. New insights into issues of information sharing, diversity, minority influence, decision making, and performance in work groups are the result. Her interests also include the intersection of race and gender stereotypes, the relationship between diversity and perceptions of morality, and how homogeneity affects group processes.

Phillips has been the recipient of professional awards from the Center for Families at Purdue University, the International Association of Conflict Management, and the Organizational Behavior Division and the Gender, Diversity, and Organizations Division of the Academy of Management. Her review of diversity research published in Research in Organizational Behavior (1998, under the name Katherine Williams) is a leading source of information for scholars in many disciplines. More of her work can be found in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Scientific American, Chicago Tribune, Time.com, and Fortune.com. In 2011, Poets and Quants, a website devoted to the coverage of business schools and MBA degrees, named Phillips one of the Top 40 Business School Professors Under the Age of 40.

Phillips received a PhD in organizational behavior from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

​Selingo is a best-selling author and award-winning columnist who helps parents and higher education leaders imagine the college and university of the future and how to succeed in a fast-changing economy. His newest book, There Is Life After College (2016), explores how today’s young adults need to navigate college to prepare themselves for the job market of today and tomorrow. Selingo also is the author of MOOC U: Who Is Getting the Most Out of Online Education and Why (2014) and College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students (2013).

A regular contributor to the Washington Post, Selingo is a special advisor and professor of practice at Arizona State University and a visiting scholar at Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. He is former editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, where he worked for 16 years in a variety of reporting and editing roles. His writing regularly appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Slate. He often is a panelist on regional and national radio and television programs, and he is a contributor to LinkedIn, where he blogs on higher education.

Selingo’s work has been honored with awards from the Education Writers Association, Society of Professional Journalists, and Associated Press. Selingo received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ithaca College and a master’s degree in government from the Johns Hopkins University.

​Tatum is president emerita of Spelman College, where she served from 2002 until 2015. She is former acting president of Mount Holyoke College, where she also held positions as dean of the college and vice president for student affairs, professor of psychology and education, and chair of the psychology department. Earlier, Tatum was a faculty member at Westfield State College and a lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

A nationally recognized authority on racial issues in America and a licensed clinical psychologist, Tatum is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race (1997 and 2003), selected as multicultural book of the year in 1998 by the National Association for Multicultural Education. Tatum also is the author of Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community (1987) and Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation (2007) and has published widely in social science and education journals.

In 2013, the Carnegie Corporation of New York named Tatum a recipient of its Academic Leadership Award, recognizing her as an exceptional president of a U.S. college or university. She was the first president serving at a historically black college or university to win the award. In 2014, Tatum received the American Psychological Association Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology. She is a former member of the CIC Board of Directors (2008–2012), including service as a member of the Executive Committee from 2010 to 2012.

Tatum earned a BA in psychology from Wesleyan University (CT) and MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan, as well as an MA in religious studies from Hartford Seminary.

​Wieman holds a joint appointment at Stanford University as a professor in the physics department and the graduate school of education. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics (“for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”), is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Education, and has received numerous honors and awards for his physics research and contributions to education, including being named the Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year in 2004. Wieman has done extensive experimental research in atomic and optical physics. His current focus is on undergraduate physics and science education. He previously held academic positions at the Universities of Michigan, Colorado, and British Columbia, including service as director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia from 2007 to 2013. He also was associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2010 to 2012.

Wieman earned a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD from Stanford University, both in physics.