Higher education leaders today are navigating extraordinary pressures, from campus protests to questions about the value of a degree. Portland State University President Dr. Ann E. Cudd has faced all of that in her first years as president.
Institutions are playing a more hands-on role in preparing young people for greater things after earning their degree. At the 2024 University Innovation Alliance National Summit, we heard from two speakers spotlighting two very different initiatives, each striking a similar chord of mentoring and supporting young people to launch their careers.
We sat down with Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, for a return visit to the
In his powerful, straightforward keynote at the UIA National Summit, Dr.
When we hosted our 2024 National Summit on Student Success, we selected keynote speakers to guide our critical three-day conversation. One of these luminaries was Dr. Raj Chetty, Director of Opportunity Insights and the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Angela Duckworth, co-director of the Penn Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, discusses the threshold for institutions joining the program, how it supports first-year and transfer students, pitching it to administrators, and using the resulting data.