Dr. Laura Cruz is an Associate Professor and Director of the Coulter Faculty Commons at Western Carolina University. In addition to multiple works in her disciplinary field (European history), she has published on the Boyer model of scholarship, instructional technology, instructional design, and graduate student development. She currently serves as the Editor of MountainRise: The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and as Associate Editor of To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development.

Dr. Andrew Adams is the Assistant Professor of Piano at Western Carolina University in North Carolina. An active soloist and chamber musician, he has accompanied recitals throughout the United States and in Russia. Dr. Adams is the author of twenty articles in a variety of journals; serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Singing; is a regular columnist for Piano Professional (the leading magazine for piano teaching in England); and has published on the Boyer Model and its application to the arts in The North Carolina Music Educator.

Dr. Robert Crow is the Coordinator of Instructional Development and Assessment for the Coulter Faculty Commons at Western Carolina University. His research interests include instructional technology, on-line teaching and learning, and innovative assessment. He currently serves as the editor of WCU’s 5th Year SACS report and has led WCU’s QEP assessment efforts. He regularly publishes and teaches in his field, educational psychology, in institutions around the world.

Dr. Hollye K. Moss is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Global Management and Strategy at Western Carolina University. She teaches operations management, quantitative methods, and business statistics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Before receiving her Ph.D. from Clemson University in 2002, she worked in both manufacturing and distribution. Her research interests include service operations management and the Boyer model of scholarship.

Dr. Windy Gordon is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Psychology at Western. His first passion is teaching; he received Western's Last Lecture Award in 2009. Before joining Western he served for a decade as a college vice president, raced canoes for the U.S. national team and worked at the Environmental Protection Agency. Western allows him to pursue all these disparate interests so he now studies experiential education, benefits of wilderness activity and sports psychology while teaching experimental psychology.