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CSHPE 50th Anniversary: Inaugural Event

 

Inaugural Event
“The Emerging Challenges to Higher Education”
January 12, 2007

The Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education will mark the beginning of our anniversary year with a special event that focuses on the emerging challenges to higher education. A distinguished panel of current and former university presidents, all with ties to the University of Michigan, will speak to this theme with special attention to the public purposes and social dividends associated with higher education. Each speaker will have the opportunity to address a topic related to this theme, followed by breakout sessions in which members of the audience will discuss the remarks. This event will conclude with the panel reconvening to share reactions to one another’s presentations and to address specific challenges that have been raised throughout theday. Confirmed speakers include:

  • Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan
  • Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and President of Syracuse University and former Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, UM
  • James J. Duderstadt, Professor of Science and Engineering and President Emeritus, UM
  • B. Joseph White, President of The University of Illinois and former Dean of the Business School and Interim President, UM
  • Charles Vest, former President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Michigan

Register now: The Emerging Challenges to Higher Education Session

Friday, January 12, 2007
All conference events will be held in Rackham Graduate School Building, 4th Floor

8:30 – 9:00 AM - Coffee Reception  (Assembly Hall)

9:00 – 9:30 AM - Welcome, Deborah Carter, CSHPE Director
and Deborah Ball, School of Education Dean. Remarks by President Mary Sue Coleman (Amphitheater)

9:30 – 10:00 AM - Remarks by Dr. Cantor (Amphitheater)

10:00 – 10:30 AM - Audience Discussion (Amphitheater)

10:30 – 10:45 AM - Break (Assembly Hall)

10:45 – 11:15 AM - Remarks by Dr. Vest (Amphitheater)
                       
11:15 – 11:45 AM - Audience Discussion (Amphitheater)

11:45 – 12:45 PM  - Lunch (Assembly Hall)        

1:00 – 1:30 PM - Remarks by Dr. Duderstadt (Amphitheater)

1:30 – 2:00 PM - Audience Discussion (Amphitheater)

2:00 – 2:15 PM - Break (Assembly Hall)

2:15 – 2:45 PM - Remarks by Dr. White (Amphitheater)

2:45 – 3:15 PM - Audience Discussion  (Amphitheater)

3:15 – 4:00 PM - Presidents’ Panel Convenes (Amphitheater)

4:15 – 5:00 PM - Reception (Assembly Hall)

 

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