Richard Badenhausen is dean of the Honors College at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He is currently president of the NCHC, member of the NCHC Board of Directors, an NCHC Recommended Site Visitor, an editorial board member of HIP: Honors in Practice, former co-chair of the NCHC Publications Board, and chair of the 2018 NCHC conference. The 2016 winner of NCHC's Sam Schuman Award for Excellence at a Four-Year Institution, Badenhausen is also an NCHC Fellow.  He is the author of T.S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration (Cambridge UP) and the 2014 recipient of Westminster College's Gore Excellence in Teaching award.