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Challenge the status quo
Free Speech on Campus
November 2023
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean & Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley, School of Law
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)
The Science of Learning: A Community-Based Learning Activity
April 2023
Candace Thille
Director for Workforce, Stanford Accelerator for Learning
The Human Resource Curse
January 2022
Daniel Markovits
Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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")
Designing for Equity: Building Innovative Systems for Lifelong Learning
December 2020
Ajita Talwalker Menon
President and CEO for Calbright College
Revolutionizing the University
September 2018
Cathy N. Davidson
Founding Director of the Futures Initiative
Can we Leapfrog?
May 2018
Rebecca Winthrop
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Universal Education, Brookings
Technology Disruption
May 2017
Eric Schmidt
Technical Advisor, Alphabet
Beyond Wit and Grit
May 2016
Howard Gardner
Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Rethinking Higher Education
June 2015
Ben Nelson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Minerva Project
Higher Education Town Hall
September 2013
Arne Duncan
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Enabling Ecosystems of Entrepreneurship to End Poverty
March 2013
Susan M. Davis
President and Chief Executive Officer, BRAC USA
The Future of Research at American Public Universities
October 2012
Arden L. Bement Jr.
Former Director, Purdue University Global Policy Research Institute
Teach for America
November 2011
Wendy Kopp
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Teach for America
Contributing Writer to the New York Times
May 2011
Claudia Dreifus
Contributing Writer, New York Times
Strategy Development
October 2010
Laurie Leshin
President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Power of Pull
May 2010
John Seely Brown
Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
How Can Universities Face the Challenges Before Us?
February 2010
Jonathan R. Cole
Provost and Dean Emeritus, Columbia University