Nicholas D. Hartlep holds the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair of Education and chairs the Education Studies Department at Berea College, USA.

Terrell L. Strayhorn is Vice Provost of Faculty Development, Professor of Education and Psychology, and Director of the Center for the Study of HBCUs at Virginia Union University, USA.

Fred A. Bonner II is the Wilhelmina F. Delco Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership at Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Regents Professor, USA.