A Development Council provides assistance and advice to the Director and Advisory Committee on matters of external funding and public outreach. Its current members include Corey and Maggie Brown, Sally and John Cox, Melbern G. and Susanne Glasscock, Larry D. Hill, Layne E. and Gayle Kruse, and Ida Clement Steen. The Center's director is James Rosenheim and Executive Associate Dean Ben M. Crouch serves as an ex officio representative of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.