2025 Annual Meeting
Ticketed Events
Each ticketed event is a networking opportunity that allows attendees to discuss a topic of mutual interest with colleagues while sharing a meal, in addition to featuring a talk by a leading expert.
Registration for the Annual Meeting is required to attend a special event, and tickets may be added to your registration. For prices, visit the rates and pricing page.
Thursday, January 23, 2025 / –
Women's Leadership Breakfast
Jessica Riddell, the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Bishop’s University, will lead a discussion of topics related to women’s leadership in the higher education space and beyond.
Jessica Riddell
Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, Bishop’s University
Thursday, January 23, 2025 / –
Global Issues Breakfast
Dawn Michele Whitehead, Vice President of the AAC&U Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers, will lead a discussion of ways to engage students with global perspectives.
Limited to 30 registrants.
Dawn Michele Whitehead
Vice President for the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers; AAC&U
Thursday, January 23, 2025 / –
Networking Luncheon for Faculty and Administrators of Color
Gilda Barabino, president of Olin College of Engineering, will lead a discussion of contemporary challenges faced by faculty and administrators of color.
Gilda Barabino
President, Olin College of Engineering
Friday, January 24, 2025 / –
Moving Forward: Higher Education’s Role in Redesigning and Protecting Democracy Now
Was the 2024 election an inflection point for US democracy? Join us for breakfast to consider whether threats to democracy’s future - for example, disinformation, voter suppression, political violence, extremism and populism, and higher education’s academic freedom – have been put to rest. Where should educators go from here in fulfilling their responsibility to educate for a democracy in question?
Limited to 50 registrants.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Professor and Founding Director, Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), American University
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca
Interim President, Freedom House
Moderator: Joelle Deleveaux
Strategy Officer for Innovation and Discovery, Lumina Foundation

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