{{Short description|American professor and author}} '''Kenneth Bain''' ({{Birth date|1942|01|29}}{{spnd}}{{Death date|2025|10|10}})<ref>{{Cite web |title=Obituary of Kenneth R. Bain {{!}} Dangler Funeral Home, Morris Plains |url=https://danglerfuneralhomes.com/tribute/details/4434/Kenneth-Bain/obituary.html |access-date=2026-01-15 |website=danglerfuneralhomes.com |language=en-US}}</ref> was an American professor and author, the President of the Best Teachers Institute, a research and educational organization in New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and he was previously the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at University of the District of Columbia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.udc.edu/udc_communications/press/2011-08-01_Ken_Bain_Selected_New_UDC_Provost.htm |title=UDC Takes Major Step in Ambitious Transformation |publisher=udc.edu |accessdate=September 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909214209/http://www.udc.edu/udc_communications/press/2011-08-01_Ken_Bain_Selected_New_UDC_Provost.htm |archive-date=September 9, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Having served at these, he also founded several schools, the Center for Teaching Excellence at New York University, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University and also the Research Academy for University Learning at Montclair University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wfc.org/website/index2.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=286 |title=wfc.org |accessdate=September 30, 2016}}</ref> As an author, he is best known for his book ''What the Best College Teachers Do'' (Harvard University Press), a best-selling book of higher education, which is currently held in over 2,000 libraries worldwide, including of which Bain himself is held in over 5,000 libraries worldwide, as of 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2003114850/ |title=Bain, Ken |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=September 30, 2016}}</ref>
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