Lauren A. Turner is the senior associate vice chancellor for Human Resources and Organizational Strategy and Effectiveness at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She has spent more than thirty years in a variety of leadership positions in human resources at Mount Holyoke College and UMass Lowell. Her current responsibilities involve oversight of all aspects of campus human resources management, including talent management, employee and labor relations, diversity and inclusion, position classification and total compensation, workplace learning and development, and organizational strategy, effectiveness, and compliance. Turner is also a PhD candidate in leadership and organizational studies in the Manning School of Business at UMass Lowell. Her dissertation explores the effects of leader cultural intelligence on the establishment of diversity management practices in higher education institutions.

A. J. Angulo is a professor of education and a faculty affiliate in the Department of History and Global Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His book projects include Miseducation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Diploma Mills (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Empire and Education (Palgrave, 2012), and William Barton Rogers and the Idea of MIT (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). He also serves as principal investigator, executive director, and academic coordinator of federal grant programs designed to promote international higher education initiatives and increase educational capacity around the world.