The authors thank the WPI Global Experience Office for providing the WPI data sets, especially, Anne Ogilvie, Erin Bell, Deborah Fusaro, Dawn Farmer, and Kent Rissmiller, the program coordinators in the GEO, for organizing the SPC matching. They thank Mark Santiago, Alfred Scott, and Andrew Whalen for their technical support on the back-end implementation at WPI. They thank Camila Dias, Lin Jiang, and Elizabeth Karpinski, who initiated the initial optimization-based model for the WPI SPC matching. They also thank Dr. Adrienne Hall-Phillips who worked with Trapp and WPI graduate students Xin Liu and Xuechun Li to conduct a full-scale pilot test of initial optimization-based model for the IQP matching. Finally, they thank David Manlove, Maxence Delorme, and Alex Teytelboym for their comments and suggestions that greatly improved this paper.
