Friday, January 17th: 1:00pm-2:10pm

Description of Session

Moving Higher Education Forward (or Not)

Higher education has problems. You can list them without too much thought – cost and value, diversity and inclusion, free speech, politicalization (political attacks), college athletics, AI, etc., etc., etc. Add your nagging challenge here: __________________ . But what we need is a conversation about solutions and specifically, the extent to which higher education has the capacity and the leadership to move the sector forward. Three questions we will explore are:

Has today’s governance model – faculty senates and lay boards - run its course?
Does HE have the leaders and leadership it needs?
Do HEIs have the capacity to change in the ways they need to? (Do different types of institutions – residential colleges, public universities, community colleges, HBCUs, etc. have the capacities to change?)

And then, we want to collectively explore: What do you as an institutional leader do now?

Speakers

Full speaker bios available here.

Peter Eckel

Senior Fellow

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Rob Farrell (C17)

General Counsel

Mergers and Aquisitions

HBCU Panel