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Thank you for registering for the webinar:
February 2nd, 2012 at 2:00PM EST
You will receive an email with a link to the webinar. Attendees may use their computer microphone & speaker setup or dial-in via telephone (toll-free & recommended).
John Immerwahr and Will Friedman will share new research shedding light on how key stakeholders in higher education—trustees of colleges and universities—see their role in addressing the unprecedented challenges that higher education is facing. Still on the Sidelines: What Role Will Trustees Play in Higher Education Reform?, funded by the Lumina Foundation, is based on candid interviews with a cross-section of trustees of boards at diverse public and private institutions nationwide.
While the trustees we spoke to are serious and committed to their schools, most are focused on short-term challenges facing their institutions without entertaining significant change in the status quo, and many have not yet fully engaged with some key national issues of higher education reform. With so few of the trustees we interviewed talking about reform, the question becomes: how can we engage these essential stakeholders in the critical conversations about higher education reform in productive ways?
This webinar will examine the research findings in depth and compare the attitudes of trustees against past research from Public Agenda on college and university presidents, business and legislative leaders, faculty and the general public.
John Immerwahr is the author or co-author of numerous Public Agenda national and regional studies on education and children. With Public Agenda's co-founder Daniel Yankelovich, Dr. Immerwahr has also co-authored several studies of public attitudes toward foreign policy. Dr. Immerwahr is also a professor of philosophy at Villanova University and is the founder and director of TeachPhilosophy101.org, a web site featuring resources for philosophy professors.
Will Friedman is the president of Public Agenda and was the founding director, in 1997, of the organization's public engagement department. He is the co-author, with Public Agenda co-founder Dan Yankelovich, of Toward Wiser Public Judgment, which offers insights and strategies to counteract the excessive partisanship that dominates today's public discourse.
Read more before the discussion:
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The report "comes at a time when a growing number of policy makers and scholars are questioning whether colleges' teaching and business models need to be revamped in order to serve more students with fewer dollars."
Inside Higher Ed: "The report’s findings… raise questions about the breakdown of responsibility between institutional administrators and governing boards, as well as how involved trustees should be in managing the daily operations of campus and shaping an institution’s strategic vision."
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