Meeting the Challenge: - The Council of Independent Colleges

John R. Thelin is University Research Professor at the University
of Kentucky, where he has taught since 1996. A distinguished
historian of public policy and higher education, Dr. Thelin began his
own career in higher education as an assistant dean for admissions
at Pomona College and later served as research director of the
Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities.
His books include Higher Education and Its Useful Past: Applied
History in Research and Planning (1982), Games Colleges Play (1994,
1997), and most recently, A History of American Higher Education
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
About the Authors
Alvin P. Sanoff is the former managing editor of U.S. News & World
Report’s rankings project of “America’s Best Colleges” and “America’s
Best Graduate Schools.” He has written about higher education
for the Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today, and many other
national publications, and has been a consultant to numerous
colleges and universities on strategic planning and related issues.
He recently served as project manager for the Education Schools
Project headed by Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College.
Sanoff now works as a consultant, freelance writer, and contributing
editor for Washingtonian Magazine.
Welch Suggs has been a knowledgeable observer of liberal arts
colleges for more than 15 years—first as a student at Rhodes College
in Tennessee, then as a journalist, and now as associate director of
the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Before joining
the Knight Commission in 2005, Suggs was a reporter and then
senior editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is also the
author of A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX,
published in 2005 by Princeton University Press.
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