Christine McPhail is Professor and Graduate Co-ordinator of the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University. She formerly served as the President and Chief Instructional Officer at Cypress College in southern California. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Council for the Study of Community Colleges, and Education Direct, Inc.; Advisory Council for the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) and the National Center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR);Coach, Achieving the Dream; Affirmative Action Officer, Division J, American Education Research Association (AERA); Editorial Board for the Community College Journal of Research and Practice; Editor of a recent AACC publication, Establishing and Sustaining Learning Centered Community Colleges. Her research interests lie in the intersection of three fields of higher education: leadership, governance, and learning.