Pat Hutchings is a senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA). Previously (until 2009) she was a senior scholar and vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She has written, spoken, and consulted widely on student outcomes assessment, integrative learning, the investigation and documentation of teaching and learning, the peer review of teaching, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Publications include Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education (with the NILOA team, 2015); The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact (with co-authors Mary Taylor Huber and Anthony Ciccone, 2011); and The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (with Mary Taylor Huber, 2005). She holds a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa and began her career as a faculty member and chair of the English department at Alverno College. In addition to her role with the BVA Hub, she serves, with Mary Huber, as an evaluator for TRESTLE, conducting in-depth, longitudinal case studies of four participating departments.