GLOBAL POSITIONING
Essential Learning, Student Success, and the Currency of U.S. Degrees
FORUM FOR PRESIDENTS AND FOUNDATION LEADERS
Envisioning, Investing, and Inventing:
College Learning and America’s Global Future
Thursday, January 27 – Friday, January 28, 2011
Forum Chair:
David Oxtoby, President, Pomona College and Chair, AAC&U Board of Directors
Preliminary Program
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27
4:30-5:45 pm
Global Vision and Leadership: Why Asian Universities Are Expanding Their Commitment to Liberal and Liberal Arts Education
Absent liberal learning, is global leadership even possible?
Moderator: David Oxtoby, President, Pomona College
Speaker: Yuk-Shee Chan, President, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Internationalization of Higher Education and the Development of Liberal Education in Asia Presentation (PDF)
5:45-7:15 pm Chinese Tea-Tasting Reception
Presidents’ Forum participants are cordially invited to attend a special tea-tasting reception with international visitors *:
Yang Gan, Dean of Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Dean of Liberal Arts College, and Director of University General Education Unit, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Sidong Xiong, Vice President and Professor of Immunology, Soochow University (formerly Dean of Fudan College at Fudan University), China
Cao Li, Deputy-Director of Liberal Education and Professor of English Literature, Tsinghua University, China
Maybo Ching, Chair of Academic Committee of Liberal Arts College and Professor of History, Sun Yat-sen University, China
* Yang Gan, Sidong Xiong, Cao Li, and Maybo Ching will present from 2:45-4:00 pm on Thursday, January 27, within the larger annual meeting program at a session on “Why Liberal Education and General Education are Becoming Rising Stars in China.” They will present examples of China’s general and liberal education curriculum development programs and discuss the challenges faced by Chinese universities. The session will be moderated by Kenyon Chan, Chancellor of the University of Washington-Bothell. All presidents are warmly invited to attend.
6:15-8:00 pm
Invitational Reception for Presidents and Foundation Leaders
FRIDAY, JANUARY 28
7:00-8:30 am Presidents’ Breakfast Panel and Discussion
Global Vision and U.S. Leadership: Navigating American Mindfields
Moderator: Sanford Ungar, President, Goucher College
Panelists:
Ramón Gutiérrez, Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History; Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, The University of Chicago
Barbara Lawton, Lt. Governor, Wisconsin
Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University
8:45-10:15 am Panel and Discussion
Global Preparedness and Campus Priorities: Guiding Far-Reaching Change (Navigating Campus Mindfields)
Panelists:
Mildred García, President, California State University-Dominguez Hills
Brian Rosenberg, President, Macalester College
Mary Spilde, President, Lane Community College
10:30-12:00 pm Featured Panel
Preparing U.S. Students for Twenty-First-Century Challenges:
The View from Major Foundations
Panelists:
Holiday Hart McKiernan, Vice President, Operations and General Counsel, Lumina Foundation for Education
Hilary Pennington, Director of Education, Postsecondary Success, and Special Initiatives, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
12:15-1:00 pm Presidents’ Luncheon
1:00-2:00 pm Address and Discussion
Preparing U.S. Students for Twenty-First-Century Realities –
National Priorities and Campus Challenges
Eduardo Ochoa, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education
Eduardo Ochoa, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education who, having recently served as provost at Sonoma State University in the California State University system, will examine the relationship between national priorities for global leadership and campus challenges.
Online Registration and hotel information is available now.
Annual Meeting Highlighted Sessions can be found here.
Please direct questions about the Presidents’ Forum to Bethany Zecher Sutton (sutton@aacu.org or 202-884-7401).
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