Dear Friends of the National Institute —
The COVID-19 crisis has upended the higher education sector in America, affecting every aspect of postsecondary education: economics, teaching, campus life, and higher education's role and impact in society.
Please join us for our inaugural online discussion event featuring three dynamic leaders in higher education as they discuss how they are addressing the current and future challenges facing their institutions and the entire higher education industry.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
4:00 to 5:30 pm ET (US and Canada)
This forum is sponsored by the National Institute of Social Sciences and is free and open to the general public. In order to attend, you must click the link above to register in advance for the event. The event will be recorded for those who cannot attend it live.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Fred Larsen
President, Board of Trustees
Panelists:
Andrew Delbanco has served as President of The Teagle Foundation, a private philanthropic organization that works to support and strengthen liberal arts education since 2018. He has served on its Board of Directors since 2009. He has taught at Columbia University since 1985, where he is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies. He earned his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Among his many other publications, Dr. Delbanco wrote "College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be" (Princeton University Press, 2012), which has been translated into several languages.
Jennifer J. Raab is the 13th president of Hunter College, the largest college of the City University of New York. Since her tenure began in 2001, Ms Raab has been responsible for raising more than $400 million in philanthropic support for Hunter College. She previously served as a litigator and the Chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. A graduate of Hunter College High School, Ms Raab received a BA with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.
Michael S. Roth has served as the 16th president of Wesleyan University since 2007. He has overseen the launch of such academic programs such as the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life and the Shapiro Center for Writing, as well as four new interdisciplinary colleges. Under his leadership, the university had its most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history, raising more than $482 million, primarily for financial aid. Mr. Roth, who graduated from Wesleyan in 1978, has undertaken a number of initiatives that have helped to make a Wesleyan education more affordable and accessible to students from under-represented groups. He has authored "Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters" (Yale University Press, 2014) and "Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness" (Yale University Press, 2019).