National Leadership Council for Liberal Education

As part of Liberal Education and America’s Promise: Excellence for Everyone as a Nation Goes to College—a decade-long campaign to champion the value of a liberal education—AAC&U formed National Leadership Council for Liberal Education. It is comprised of educational, business, community, and policy leaders who will exercise strong leadership for liberal education in their own spheres of influence and advocate for an empowering, inclusive, and public-spirited liberal education for all students.

In 2006, the Leadership Council will issue a statement encouraging a national commitment to principles of excellence for student learning in college and will participate in advocacy activities nationally and in a set of key pilot states across the country.

Members of the National Leadership Council:

Derek Bok
President Emeritus
Harvard University

Myles Brand
President
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Mary Sue Coleman
President
University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Ronald A. Crutcher, Co-chair
President
Wheaton College

Troy Duster
Director, Institute for the History of the Production
of Knowledge, New York University                                                            
Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Judith Eaton
President
Council for Higher Education Accreditation

James Gentile
President
Research Corporation

Gina Glantz
Special Assistant to the President
Service Employees International Union

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
President
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Sylvia Hurtado
Director, Higher Education Research Institute
University of California, Los Angeles

Wayne C. Johnson                                                                                            
Vice President of University Relations Worldwide                                           
Hewlett-Packard Company

Roberts Jones
President
Education and Workforce Policy Institute

H. Peter Karoff
Founder and Chairman
The Philanthropic Initiative

George D. Kuh
Chancellor’s Professor and Director
Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research

Barbara Lawton
Lieutenant Governor
State of Wisconsin

Stephen Mittelstet
President
Richland College

Azar Nafisi
Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute
Johns Hopkins University

Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Chicago

Peggy O’Brien, Co-chair
Senior Vice President, Educational Programming
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

James F. Orr, III
Chair, Board of Trustees
The Rockefeller Foundation

Keith J. Peden
Senior Vice President of Human Resources
Raytheon Company

Christi M. Pedra                                                                                                                   Vice President and Chief Operating Officer                                                                     Siemens One, Inc.

Chellie Pingree
President
Common Cause

Sally E. Pingree                                                                                                              Trustee                                                                                                                              Charles Engelhard Foundation

Wendy Sherman
Principal
The Albright Group LLC

Lee S. Shulman
President
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Donald M. Stewart
Visiting Professor
University of Chicago
Former President, The College Board and Spelman College

Deborah Traskell
Senior Vice President
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Stephen H. Weiss                                                                                                         Managing Director                                                                                                  Neuberger Berman, Inc.

Blenda J. Wilson
President & CEO
Nellie Mae Education Foundation

Jack M. Wilson
President
University of Massachusetts System

Ruth Wooden
President
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