John Zubizarreta is Professor of English, Director of Honors and Faculty Development, and former Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Columbia College. He is the 2010 Carnegie Foundation/CASE U.S. Professor of the Year for Baccalaureate Colleges and the 1994 CASE Professor for South Carolina. In 2017, he was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education as a national top-ten classroom innovator, and in 2018 he received the NCHC Sam Schuman Award for Excellence at a Four-Year Institution. He has led faculty development workshops, presented papers, and delivered keynote addresses worldwide on American and comparative literatures, teaching and learning, faculty and administrative evaluation, and honors education. Author or co-author of several books on disciplinary subjects and pedagogy, including two NCHC monographs, John is a Past President of NCHC and SRHC, an NCHC-approved program reviewer, a former member of the NCHC Board of Directors, and Co-Chair of the Teaching and Learning Committee.