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    The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World

    September 2024

    Micahel Smith

    J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Information Technology and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College

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    Governing the Future: AI, Policy Innovation, and Democracy

    April 2024

    Alondra Nelson

    Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

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    Free Speech on Campus

    November 2023

    Erwin Chemerinsky

    Dean & Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley, School of Law

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    Leadership, Empowerment, and Resilience in Higher Education: Reflections on the Past Fifty Years

    October 2023

    Freeman A. Hrabowski

    President Emeritus, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

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    The Science of Learning: A Community-Based Learning Activity

    April 2023

    Candace Thille

    Director for Workforce, Stanford Accelerator for Learning

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    The Human Resource Curse

    January 2022

    Daniel Markovits

    Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, Yale Law School

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    The Journey from Not Knowing to Knowing

    May 2021

    Sarah Stein Greenberg

    Executive Director & Adjunct Professor, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (a.k.a. "the d.school")

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    Designing for Equity: Building Innovative Systems for Lifelong Learning

    December 2020

    Ajita Talwalker Menon

    President and CEO for Calbright College

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    Revolutionizing the University

    September 2018

    Cathy N. Davidson

    Founding Director of the Futures Initiative

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    Can we Leapfrog?

    May 2018

    Rebecca Winthrop

    Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Universal Education, Brookings

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    Technology Disruption

    May 2017

    Eric Schmidt

    Technical Advisor, Alphabet

  • Image for Beyond Wit and Grit

    Beyond Wit and Grit

    May 2016

    Howard Gardner

    Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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    Rethinking Higher Education

    June 2015

    Ben Nelson

    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Minerva Project

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    Higher Education Town Hall

    September 2013

    Arne Duncan

    Former U.S. Secretary of Education

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    Enabling Ecosystems of Entrepreneurship to End Poverty

    March 2013

    Susan M. Davis

    President and Chief Executive Officer, BRAC USA

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    The Future of Research at American Public Universities

    October 2012

    Arden L. Bement Jr.

    Former Director, Purdue University Global Policy Research Institute

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    Teach for America

    November 2011

    Wendy Kopp

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Teach for America

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    Contributing Writer to the New York Times

    May 2011

    Claudia Dreifus

    Contributing Writer, New York Times

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    Strategy Development

    October 2010

    Laurie Leshin

    President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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    The Power of Pull

    May 2010

    John Seely Brown

    Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge

  • Image for How Can Universities Face the Challenges Before Us?

    How Can Universities Face the Challenges Before Us?

    February 2010

    Jonathan R. Cole

    Provost and Dean Emeritus, Columbia University