Over the course of the academic year, many FIT faculty, staff members, and administrators will work with the following professionals from The Learning Alliance for Higher Education (TLA):

Bob Zemsky, who will lead the team, is TLA’s chair. He is the former director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education, and served for a decade as the university’s chief planning officer. He also chaired both the Pew Higher Education Roundtable and the Knight Collaborative.

Bill Massy was founding director of the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research and served for more than a decade as Stanford’s chief financial and administrative officer. He is an international expert on resource allocation and education quality audits in higher education. For the past five years, he has been president of the Jackson Hole Higher Education Group.

Joan Girgus is currently professor of psychology and chair of the Committee on Women Faculty in Science and Engineering at Princeton University. Formerly, she served as dean of the college of Princeton University.

Patricia Burch is the managing principal of The Stillwater Group and a trained facilitator specializing in strategy development, academic planning, and student services. She has more than 20 years of experience in higher education, including more than ten years at Columbia University, where she was budget director for the School of Arts and Sciences.

Ann Duffield is senior consultant and leader of the Communications and Planning Group at
Marts & Lundy. Prior to joining the firm in 1999, she worked for 25 years at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was associate vice president of university relations. She has also served as associate director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Research on Higher Education and as program director of the Higher Education Roundtable.

Susan Shaman is director of special projects at the Peach Bottom Group and a guest lecturer in the Executive Doctorate in Higher Education program at the University of Pennsylvania.

James Galbally is at the Peach Bottom Group, and has served at the University of Pennsylvania since 1983, where he is a member of the faculty of The Wharton School’s Management Department and the Graduate School of Education’s Higher Education Division.