• Diane M. Barrans executive director, Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, Juneau

  • Patricia B. Heller retired state director, U.S. Senate, Anchorage

  • David Lorenz retired vice president of administration and finance, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

  • Joel D. Sideman executive director, Arizona Board of Regents, Phoenix

  • Leah Bornstein president, Coconino Community College, Flagstaff

  • Jim Silva state assemblyman, Huntington Beach

  • Roy Ashburn state sentator, Bakersfield

  • Joseph Garcia (vice chair, WICHE Commission) president, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo

  • Kaye Howe executive director, National Science Digital Library, Boulder

  • Rico Munn executive director, Colorado Department of Higher Education, Denver

  • Roy T. Ogawa attorney, Ogawa, Lau, Nakamura & Jew, Attorneys At Law, Honolulu

  • Roberta Richards principal, Pauoa Elementary School, Honolulu

  • Robert W. Kustra president, Boise State University, Boise

  • Michael Rush executive director, Idaho State Board of Education, Boise

  • Arthur Vailas president, Idaho State University, Pocatello

  • Dan W. Harrington former state senator, Montana State Senate, Butte

  • Kerra Melvin former student regent, Butte

  • Mary Sheehy Moe deputy commissioner for two-year education, Montana University System, Helena

  • Warren Hardy former state senator, Las Vegas

  • Jane A. Nichols (immediate past chair, WICHE Commission) vice chancellor to academic and student affairs, Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno

  • Carl Shaff educational consultant, Reno

  • Dede Feldman state senator, Albuquerque

  • Patricia Anaya Sullivan assistant dean, College of Engineering, NMSU, Las Cruces

  • Viola Florez cabinet secretary for higher education, New Mexico Higher Education Department, Santa Fe

  • Bill Goetz chancellor, North Dakota University System, Bismarck

  • Duaine Espegard member, State Board of Higher Education, Grand Forks

  • David E. Nething state senator, Jamestown

  • Ryan Deckert president, Oregon Business Association, Portland

  • Camille Preus commissioner, Oregon Dept. of Community Colleges and Workforce Development, Salem

  • Tim Nesbitt deputy chief of staff, Office of the Governor, Salem

  • Robert Burns dean emeritus of Honors College and distinguished professor emeritus of political science, South Dakota State University, Brookings

  • James O. Hansen regent, South Dakota Board of Regents, Pierre

  • Jack Warner executive director, South Dakota Board of Regents, Pierre

  • Bonnie J. Beesley regent, Salt Lake City

  • Peter C. Knudson state senator, Brigham City

  • William Sederburg commissioner of higher education, Utah System of Higher Education, Salt Lake City

  • Ann Daley executive director, Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia

  • Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney state representative, Seattle

  • Jeanne Kohl-Welles state senator, Seattle

  • Thomas Buchanan (chair, WICHE Commission) president, University of Wyoming, Laramie

  • Debbie Hammons state representative, Worland

  • Klaus Hanson vice mayor of Laramie; emeritus professor of German, University of Wyoming, Laramie