THE WIT, THE WILL ... AND THE WALLET
Supporting Educational Innovation, Shaping our Global Futures
Plenary Speakers
Opening Plenary
Thursday, January 21, 8:45-10:15 a.m.
Achieving Ambitious Goals for College Completion AND for the Quality of Learning
Martha J. Kanter
Martha J. Kanter is the Under Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education and former Chancellor of Foothill-De Anza Community College District, one of the largest community college districts in the nation. Dr. Kanter is the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position.
Jamie P. Merisotis
Jamie P. Merisotis is president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation for Education. Under his leadership, Lumina has embraced an ambitious and specific goal: to ensure that, by 2025, 60 percent of Americans have high quality two-year or four-year degrees—up from the current level of 39 percent.
Ronald A. Crutcher, President, Wheaton College
Ronald A. Crutcher is the president of Wheaton College, where he has engaged the entire Wheaton community in envisioning the components necessary for continued leadership in the liberal arts for the 21st century. President Crutcher is also Co-Chair of the LEAP National Leadership Council.
Closing Plenary
Saturday, January 23, 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
For the Common Wealth: A Vision of Liberal Education for the Future
Edward L. Ayers
Edward Ayers is President of the University of Richmond. He was previously the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, where he began teaching in 1980, and was named the National Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2003. One of the nation’s leading scholars on the history of the American South, Dr. Ayers has authored or edited ten books. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992) – a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize – was named the best book on the history of American race relations and on the history of the American South.
A pioneer in digital history and a national advocate for exploring the potential of computer technology to enhance scholarship and teaching, President Ayers created The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, a Web site that has attracted millions of users and won major prizes in the teaching of history. It is used in classrooms at all levels throughout the country and makes available thousands of original sources for students and scholars to conduct their own research and draw their own conclusions about history.
ACAD Keynote Luncheon
Friday, January 22, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Business as Usual? Higher Education After the Meltdown
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Andrew M. Delbanco
Andrew M. Delbanco is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he is currently Director of American Studies. He will address the challenges facing our colleges and universities in the wake of the nation’s financial crisis, such as maintaining accessibility for low-income students, striking a healthy balance between research and teaching, and supporting new fields of advanced inquiry while providing genuine liberal education for undergraduates. Professor Delbanco is a frequent contributor on issues in higher education for the The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine; was elected in 2001 as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and was named by Time Magazine as “America’s Best Social Critic.” Dr. Delbanco’s publications include Melville: His World and Work, and his new book – College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be – is scheduled for publication by Princeton University Press in 2010.
Networking Breakfast for Women Faculty and Administrators
Thursday, January 21, 7:00-8:30 a.m.
Investing in Equality: Our Nation's Best Future
Michelle Asha Cooper
Michelle Asha Cooper is president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a research and policy center developing new ideas and approaches to help low-income, minority, and other historically underrepresented populations gain access to and achieve success in postsecondary education. Dr. Cooper oversees the organization’s expansive research portfolio and innovative programmatic activities focusing on access and success, accountability, diversity, finance, and global impact.
Networking Luncheon for Faculty and Administrators of Color
Thursday, January 21, 11:45-1:15 p.m.
Talking about Race and Ethnicity in a Post Racial America
Ramón Gutiérrez
Ramón Gutiérrez is Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. He has received numerous academic awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship (“genius” grant) and the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association. An experienced administrator, Dr. Gutiérrez has also served as Associate Chancellor in the University of California system.
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