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Dear Friends,

Welcome to Imagining a More Civil Society: The Summit on the University and the Jewish Community.

One year ago a steering committee convened at Hillel’s Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life at Columbia University to begin planning this unique event. We set out not just to catalogue the many positive trends in civil discourse and civic engagement on campus, but to imagine what could be. With the generous support of the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, this remarkable group of people – leaders of the academy and the Jewish community – developed a program that enables participants to refl ect on who we are and the ideas of others, to discuss and learn from others in an effort to share and integrate our truths, and to act to create greater opportunities for others.

As we imagine a more civil society, we will focus deeply on discourse itself and also on activi- ties that foster safe dialogue and productive contributions to society. We will delve into the challenges of creating community, often raising questions without defi nitive solutions. We will demonstrate what we hope to lead on campus: respectful, authentic conversations in which we hold multiple truths simultaneously, listening carefully while articulating our own thoughts and opening ourselves to letting go and learning anew. We will bring back to campus fresh ideas on discourse and civic engagement.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Hillel International Board of Governors Chairman Edgar M. Bronfman, Board of Directors Chairman Julian Sandler, President Wayne Firestone and the leadership of the organization for their support and encouragement. We thank our committee members for their wisdom and counsel. And we thank Summit Director Jeremy Bandler, Hillel Organizational Learning Director Beth Cousens, Summit Associate Rachel Salzman and the Hillel professional team for their long hours and hard work.

When the ancient Jewish sage Hillel was asked to distill the essence of Judaism, his response was the foundation of civil society: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. The rest is commentary.” Signifi cantly, Hillel added: “Now go and study.”

Let us study together.

Lawrence S. Bacow David M. Cohen Beatrice S. Mandel President New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Tufts University

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Dear Friends,

It is our pleasure to welcome you to Imagining a More Civil Society: The Summit on the University and the Jewish Community. We have convened a remarkable group of leaders from academia, the Jewish community and journalism who will no doubt contribute to the advancement of civil society on our campuses and in the community.

This Summit was born out of Hillel’s commitment to Jewish tradition and to the contemporary campus. Scholarship and civic engagement, learning and doing, study and social justice, have been inextricably linked throughout Jewish history. In the modern era, the university campus has provided the Jewish community with an intellectual haven and a professional training ground. Hillel has been an integral part of campus life in North America for 85 years and, increasingly, overseas. Hillel prides itself on partnering with universities to help young people of all backgrounds grow into the leader- ship of our communities. As an organization that lives and works on campus, it is our hope that this Summit will not only strengthen our university partnership but will lead to new and unforeseen ways to advance the university campus as a model for civil society.

The Summit represents the collaboration of many individuals scattered across North America. We thank our Summit co-chairs, Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow, Hillel International Board of Governors Member David M. Cohen, and Vice Chair Executive Committee Beatrice S. Mandel, and their committee members for guiding the Summit planning process. We thank the Hillel professional team, led by Summit Director Jeremy D. Bandler and Hillel Director of Organizational Learning Beth Cousens, who have organized and planned the conference. And we thank David and Cheryl Einhorn, the principals of the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, who have enabled us to create this Summit and who share our vision for a brighter future for college campuses the world over.

Edgar M. Bronfman Julian Sandler Wayne L. Firestone Chairman Chairman President International Board of Governors Board of Directors

THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE

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SUMMIT PLANNING COMMITTEE

SUMMIT CO-CHAIRS Larry Moneta Vice President for Student Affairs, Duke University Lawrence S. Bacow President, Tufts University Pamela S. Nadell Director, Jewish Studies Program, American University David M. Cohen New York, NY Julie Wise Oreck New Orleans, LA Beatrice S. Mandel Los Angeles, CA Bernard Steinberg Executive Director, Harvard Hillel

PLANNING COMMITTEE Stephen P. Steinberg Advisor to the President, University of Pennsylvania Rabbi Will Berkovitz Executive Director, University of Washington Hillel Bluma Stoller Boston, MA Nancy Duber Washington, DC LeNorman J. Strong Assistant Vice President for Student and Academic Services, Wayne L. Firestone Cornell University President, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Ralph S. Taber Adam Frankel Senior Associate Dean of the College and Dean of Students, Student, University of Arizona ‘08 Franklin and Marshall College

Cindy Hughey Executive Director, Michigan State University Hillel PROFESSIONAL STAFF

Jennifer Hoos Jeremy D. Bandler Einhorn Family Charitable Trust Director, Summit on the University and the Jewish Community

Rabbi Susan Laemmle Beth Cousens Dean of Religious Life, University of Southern California Director of Organizational Learning

Fred Margulies Rachel Salzman Chicago, IL Associate, Summit on the University and the Jewish Community

The Summit Planning Committee wishes to thank the staff of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman International Center and Hillel professionals in the fi eld who gave generously of their time and their talents to ensure the success of the Summit.

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Summit 2008 Sponsors

LEAD SPONSOR Einhorn Family Charitable Trust

PREMIER SPONSORS Judy and Abel Friedman Robert and Arlene Kogod

HOST FAMILY SPONSORS Abramson Family Foundation Carol and Gary Berman The Bernstein Companies: Honorable and Mrs. Stuart A. Bernstein, Mr. and Mrs. Adam K. Bernstein, Mr. and Mrs. Marc Duber Abby Joseph Cohen and David M. Cohen Beatrice S. and Leonard H. Mandel Alan and Amy Meltzer Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation

STUDENT SPONSORS The Honorable Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Tracy and Evan J. Segal David Yaffe Cindy and Rick Zitelman

Special thanks to the United Jewish Communities and hundreds of Jewish Federations throughout North America.

CHARLES AND LYNN SCHUSTERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION SCHOLARS Robert H. Abzug, University of Texas at Austin Norman A. Stillman, University of Oklahoma Ilan Troen, Brandeis University

SUMMIT SCHOLARS Terri S. Fine, University of Central Florida Adina Friedman, The George Washington University Victoria G. Harrison, San Jose State University Manuel London, State University of New York at Stony Brook Alex Lubet, University of Minnesota Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State University Sharon Oster, University of Redlands Elinor Rosenfi eld, Rochester Institute of Technology Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University Fae Silverman, University of Southern Maine

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Summit Endorsements

We are grateful to a number of organizations who have provided guidance, support and encouragement throughout the planning of the Summit.

American College Personnel Association (ACPA)

www.acpa.nche.edu American College Personnel Association (ACPA), headquartered in Washington, D.C. at the National Center for Higher Education, is the leading comprehensive student affairs association that advances student affairs and engages students for a lifetime of learning and discovery. ACPA, founded in 1924 by May L. Cheney, has nearly 9,000 members representing 1,500 private and public institutions from across the U.S. and around the world. Members include organizations and companies that are engaged in the campus marketplace. Members also include graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in student affairs/higher education administration programs, faculty, and student affairs professionals, from entry level to senior student affairs offi cers.

Campus Compact

www.compact.org Campus Compact is a coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents - representing some 6 million students - who are committed to fulfi lling the public purposes of higher education. As the only national association dedicated to this mission, Campus Compact is a leader in building civic engagement into campus and academic life. Through our national offi ce and network of 32 state offi ces, member institutions receive the training, resources, and advocacy they need to build strong surrounding communities and teach students the skills and values of democracy.

Campus Compact’s membership includes public, private, two- and four-year institutions across the spectrum of higher education. These institutions put into practice the ideal of civic engagement by sharing knowledge and resources with their communities, creating economic development initiatives, and supporting service and service-learning efforts in key areas such as literacy, health care, hunger, homelessness, the environment, and senior services.

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NASPA

www.naspa.org NASPA, (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators) student affairs administrators in higher education, is the leading voice for student affairs administration, policy and practice and affi rms the commitment of student affairs to educating the whole student and integrating student life and learning. With over 11,000 members at 1,400 campuses, and representing 29 countries, NASPA is the largest professional association for student affairs administrators, faculty and graduate students. NASPA members are committed to serving college students by embracing the core values of diversity, learning, integrity, collaboration, access, service, fellowship, and the spirit of inquiry.

NASPA members serve a variety of functions and roles including the vice president and dean for student life as well as professionals working within housing and residence life, student unions, student activities, counseling, career development, orientation, enrollment management, racial and ethnic minority support services, and retention and assessment. NASPA serves its members through a wide range of services, including outstanding quarterly publications such as the NASPA Journal and Leadership Exchange, a management magazine, a variety of professional development opportunities for student affairs individuals at all levels within the profession, and a comprehensive, content-rich Web site that is the most widely accessed Web site in the student affairs association community.

United Jewish Communities

www.ujc.org United Jewish Communities (UJC) represents 155 Jewish Federations and 400 independent communities across North America. Through the UJA Federation Campaign, UJC provides life-saving and life-enhancing humanitarian assistance to those in need, and translates Jewish values into social action on behalf of millions of Jews in hundreds of communities in North America, in towns and villages throughout Israel, in the former Soviet Union, and 60 countries around the world. Through the Israel Emergency Campaign, UJC and the Jewish Federations of North America are providing economic, social, human welfare and other types of support to Israelis and victims of terror as they strive to lead normal lives during a period of extreme diffi culty.

Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life is a recipient of funds from the National Federation/Agency Alliance, as well as other local federations who are not members of the Alliance. Created in 2007, the National Federation/Agency Alliance is a partnership of 37 local Jewish federations that provides signifi cant funding and support to nine national Jewish agencies, including Hillel, under the auspices of the United Jewish Communities. Hillel is proud of its longstanding relationship with the federation movement locally and across North America.

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Navigating the Summit

A Space for Civil Discourse Two people, three opinions. Arguing is a Jewish norm, and also a norm of many other cultures and traditions. But as we begin this Summit about “Imagining a More Civil Society,” we ask that we set this aside in favor of a core Jewish value, the “Sh’ma.” This watchword of the Jewish tradition means “listen.” Listening -- especially when motivated by a deep and sincere intention to understand -- is the fi rst and essential step toward building a civil society.

Two ears, one mouth. An old saying refl ecting a universally human truth. We should use these in proportion during the Summit and when we return to our campuses and communities around the country. Thank you in advance for joining this unique Summit on the university and the Jewish community, and for modeling the kind of civilized listening that we hope will become a reality for all.

Interacting with Our Surroundings Our meeting space showcases a variety of visual images of actors celebrating and working toward a more civil society.

We are proud to feature the work of photojournalist Earl Dotter, who has created a photo exhibit that explores the Summit theme. Dotter’s photos mean to stimulate our imaginations, complementing our work in sessions and with each other.

In addition, the wall murals in the main hallway featuring the work of Lloyd Wolf, ask us questions, demanding and offering space for response. Please take time to explore these questions with the materials provided, recording your ideas about the Summit conversation, teaching and learning from each other, and creating a visual representation of our experience here.

Taking the Summit Home At our opening session, each Summit participant will receive a key chain that will hold several “experience cards.” At several sessions during the Summit, participants will receive additional experience cards. These cards are meant to inspire thoughtful refl ection, support friendly dialogue, and suggest action steps to take back to our universities and communities. Some cards will be blank; we encourage you to create new experience cards in conversation with each other.

The Summit bags will include a list of participants and their sponsoring organizations and home communities. Our hope for this Summit is that we live the kind of true interaction and mutual learning that we intend to initiate in the world around us. This list of participants, we anticipate, can help us to seek out others from whom we want to learn and create relationships that can endure after the Summit concludes.

Finally, each participant will receive a copy of Imagining a More Civil Society: An Essay Compendium, a collection of writings that mirrors and builds upon the ideas of the Summit sessions. The discussions we begin in the coming three days are bigger than the time allotted. It is our hope that these essays will further inspire us to carry Summit conversations back to our campuses and communities.

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Homeroom Homeroom will give us a space for contemplation of the Summit’s themes. Borrowing from the “World Café” methodology that addresses “questions that matter,” in Homeroom, we will join a small group of our peers, by role and also by campus, to consider our challenges and responsibilities in building a civil society. Participants will be divided by role and by type of college/university or organization or by facets of their Jewish community.

Homeroom is meant to help Summit participants get to the heart of these matters quickly, to learn from each other in open and unstructured conversations, and to develop ideas that all can use beyond the Summit.

Prayer and Refl ective Space Too often at large gatherings, it is challenging to create a space to internalize what we have heard and learned. We have set aside Room 12-13 for participants to fi nd a quiet and relaxing place to read, refl ect on what they have experi- enced at the Summit, and simply be.

Similarly, because we are a religiously and spiritually diverse and committed community, we have provided a prayer space in Room 14. Although we have not organized formal services during the course of the Summit, we have listed times for Jewish prayer below. We suggest that those who are interested in prayer at those times meet at Room 14, where we’ve provided Jewish prayer books, and coordinate religious services as fi ts their needs.

If there are additional religious resources you need and are unable to fi nd in Room 14, please let the Summit organizers know, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Monday, March 24 Minchah (Afternoon service): 6:00 p.m. Ma’ariv (Evening Service): 10:05 p.m.

Tuesday, March 25 Minchah (Afternoon service): 5:30 p.m. Ma’ariv (Evening Service): Following dinner plenary

Information on local synagogues is available at the Summit registration desk and information on local churches and mosques is available at the hotel concierge.

Green Room for Speakers Presenters who need a space to prepare for sessions will be able to in Room 18 on the Ballroom Level. All moderators and presenters should gather at the Green Room 15 minutes prior to the start of their sessions for last minute details. Presenters will then proceed to the session rooms.

Computers and Internet Access Computers with Internet access are available for Summit participants in the Summit Internet Lounge located in Room 19 on the Ballroom Level of the hotel. In addition, secure Internet access is available throughout the meeting space by using pre-assigned passwords that will be posted in Room 19. The hotel also offers unsecure Internet access in the hotel lobby.

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Take a Tour of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman International Center Tours of Hillel’s headquarters, the Schusterman International Center (SIC)will be available. Tours begin in the lobby of the SIC, a very short walk from the hotel. To get there: Exit the hotel through the Starbucks in the lobby and turn right. Walk down the pedestrian mall and cross I Street. Continue straight for ½ block; the SIC will be on your right at the corner of Eighth and H Streets NW. Two 15-minute tours will be available on Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Pre-Summit Lay Leadership Symposium On Sunday, March 23 and Monday morning, March 24, Hillel convened a symposium for board members and lay leaders who work on behalf of local Hillels throughout North America. More than 150 attendees from 50 Hillels participated in workshops and consultations that focused on the sharing of best practices and organizational knowledge. Presenters included experts in not-for-profi t management, representatives of the organized Jewish community, and Hillel leaders. The Lay Leadership Symposium, designed to enable every Hillel to reach its full potential, was chaired by Jane Scher of San Diego, California, a member of Hillel’s Board of Directors. A complete schedule is included in your conference tote.

Monday Night Dinner Reception at the Kogod Courtyard On Monday evening we will gather at the spectacular new Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard of the Smithsonian Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. The Reynolds Center houses both the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. The museums are located at Eighth and G Streets, just 2.5 blocks from The Renaissance Hotel. A group will walk together to the museum from the Main entrance (on Ninth Street) of the Renaissance Hotel at 6:50 p.m. If you prefer to take a cab, please ask the doorman at the hotel’s main entrance to hail one for you. The museum is open to the public until 7:00 p.m. Feel free to visit the second and third fl oors of the museums before 7:00pm. The fi rst fl oor will remain open throughout the evening.

National Jewish Law Students Association’s Constitutional Convention The National Jewish Law Students Association (NJLSA) was founded in the early 1980s to act as the national voice for Jewish law students. Each Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) chapter at law schools from New York to California worked to implement local initiatives. In recent years, NJLSA has disintegrated and no working constitution, by-laws, or strategic plan exist. JLSA chapters are acting as independent organizations, with little coordination at the national level.

The 2008 NJLSA Constitutional Convention (concurrent with the Hillel Summit) represents a unique and critical opportunity to re-develop the organization. The Executive Board seeks to use this time to build a foundation and gain consensus among its stakeholders in order to chart a new strategic plan and direction -- to provide students with educational, professional, political, and social opportunities. The goals of the convention are to: 1) adopt a constitu- tion and strategic plan to help provide resources and support for local JLSA chapters, and foster the advancement of Jewish law students’ partnership with local Jewish communities; 2) assist students to integrate Jewish ethics and values into their decision-making process, both before and after they begin their legal careers; and 3) create a sense of community among Jewish law students.

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Announcements Stay current throughout the Summit by checking the updates and announcements… On the big screen in the Grand Ballroom during Plenary sessions On the screens in the escalator stairwells On your hotel room TV, on the hotel’s channel.

Living Green

“SEE MY WORKS, HOW FINE AND EXCELLENT THEY ARE! NOW ALL THAT I AM GOING TO CREATE FOR YOU I HAVE ALREADY CREATED. THINK ABOUT THIS AND DO NOT CORRUPT AND DESOLATE MY WORLD; FOR IF YOU CORRUPT IT, THERE WILL BE NO ONE TO SET IT RIGHT AFTER YOU,” (Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7:13)

“IN THE END, WE CONSERVE ONLY WHAT WE LOVE. WE WILL LOVE ONLY WHAT WE UNDERSTAND. WE WILL UNDERSTAND ONLY WHAT WE ARE TAUGHT.” (Baba Dioum, Senegalese poet)

The Summit on the University and the Jewish Community is an opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to sustainability and the environment through action and example. Sustainability is a movement that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The Summit on the University and the Jewish community will be CARBON NEUTRAL! This means the 150 tons of

CO2 emissions created by hotel stays, venue energy use, and participant travel will be offset by an investment from Hillel to NativeEnergy, a Native American energy company. Hillel’s offsets will help build a Farm Methane Digester in Minnesota. By taking responsibility for the emissions created by the conference, Hillel is supporting the construction of new renewable energy projects and reducing the necessity of fossil fuel-based energy sources on the energy grid.

With that ethic in mind, this Summit strives in a variety of ways to be environmentally and socially friendly. At the Summit:

l Fair trade coffee will be served at all times. l Some conference materials are being printed on recycled materials. l Newspapers will be available to guests at the concierge instead of being delivered to each room on a daily basis. l Sheets and towels will be laundered upon request rather than on a daily schedule. l The hotel sorts trash and recycles all paper, plastic and glass. l The hotel has switched to compact fl uorescent light bulbs in guest rooms. l The hotel is a certifi ed energy star hotel. l All leftover food will be donated to DC Central Kitchen.

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Please join us in our efforts to be kind to the earth! We hope that we can continue these efforts when the day concludes:

l Be aware of electricity – Make sure to turn all of the lights out and the air conditioning down when you leave your hotel room. l Turn off the water while you are brushing your teeth. l Start at home – Switch your standard light bulbs for compact fl uorescent light bulbs (CFLs) which use 75% less energy.

Guide to sessions

I A D R S

Imagine Act Discuss Refl ect Students

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11:45 am – 12:45 pm Summit Orientation for Students

Room 10/11 Join the Summit Co-Chairs for an overview of the Summit and opportunities for students over the next three days. S

1:00 - 3:00 pm Fostering a More Civil Society

Grand Ballroom Welcome North & Central Julian Sandler, Chairman, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish – BR Campus Life Beatrice S. Mandel, Co-Chair, Summit on the University and the Jewish Community I David M. Cohen, Co-Chair, Summit on the University and the Jewish Community Introduction Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Tufts University; Co-Chair, Summit on the University and the Jewish Community

Universities increasingly mirror the diversity of today’s society, and individual students themselves inherit and want to maintain multiple identities. The ideals and values that students bring to the classroom can become a source of community tension as well as personal strength. While students need a safe space for intellectual and personal exploration, universities must also challenge their preconceptions and open them to new ideas. The confl icting pressures faced by university presidents exemplify the heightened complexity of contemporary higher education. Academic leaders must encourage and protect many different voices within their communities, on and off campus. At the same time, they need to foster change and maintain institutional momentum. To open our conversation at this Summit, university presidents will candidly share the stories of their accomplishments and challenges in fostering a civil society on campus and preparing students for life in the world beyond campus. Professor Robert D. Putnam will anchor the conversation, drawing on his groundbreaking work on the disintegration and reconstruction of communal ties in American society.

Michael V. Drake, Chancellor, University of California, Irvine Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Donna E. Shalala, President, University of Miami MODERATOR: Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Tufts University

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3:15 - 4:30 pm Contributions from Higher Education: Two Perspectives

Auditorium - MR This session will offer presentations by directors of two national programs that promote civil society. The fi rst is the Ford Foundation’s “Diffi cult Dialogues” program, which has been working on improving public A discourse, including dialogue across religious differences. The second is Campus Compact, an organization that promotes civic engagement and campus-community partnership work. Both organizations emphasize the important role of higher education in engaging students and faculty in a diverse democracy.

Maureen F. Curley, President, Campus Compact Robert M. O’Neil, Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression; President Emeritus, University of Virginia MODERATOR: Kathy O’Byrne, Director, UCLA Center for Community Learning

3:15 - 4:30 pm Impacting the World through Investing in Higher Education

Congressional A Philanthropy drives and allows for highly innovative change in the - BR university. In this conversation, we will explore the relationship between investors and higher education. Leading philanthropists will share their thoughts on what motivates them to invest in colleges and universities and how they view their investments as supporting higher education’s efforts to build a more civil society. The panelists will also explore how and whether issues of Jewish culture and identity impact their investments in higher education and how they make choices that help them explore their particular and universal commitments.

Daniel A. Burack, Managing Partner, Altman, Burack, Schenker Partners Susan Miller, The Miller Family Foundation Lynn Schusterman, Chair, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation; Co-Chair, International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life MODERATOR: Robert P. Aronson, Chief Executive Offi cer, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit; Acting President, Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life

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3:15 - 4:30 pm Technology and the Campus: Uses and Abuses

Congressional B The development of a virtual world has led to tremendous opportunity, - BR but particularly because we communicate online without seeing those with whom we are speaking, this virtual world also allows us to ignore conversational norms and to be disrespectful and hurtful. In D addition to being destructive, this behavior leads to a variety of challenges for universities. In this conversation, a variety of subject-matter experts will discuss the balance of the protection of students with student freedoms. Those who work directly with students, those who lead student communities, and those who observe these issues on campus will each share their challenges and strategies in this area.

Neal DiBiase, President, Tufts Student Union, Tufts University Jules Polonetsky, Vice President, Integrity Assurance, America Online, Inc. Rabbi Daniel Smokler, Senior Jewish Educator, UCLA Hillel MODERATOR: Andy Guess, Reporter, Inside Higher Education

4:45 - 6:00 pm Demystifying Dialogue

Room 15 - MR On many campuses, students are rejecting shouting matches and demonstrations in favor of listening to divergent points of view. Here, some of the country’s leading practitioners of dialogue will lead participants through a mini-dialogue experience, focusing on how to listen D for understanding, rather than simply hear. At this session, we will explore why dialogue on campus is supported by the widest array of people and institutions. Participants will have the opportunity to develop relationships and learn about projects to take home to campuses and communities. Additional facilitators of dialogue projects will also be available for discussion and as resources.

FACILITATOR: Julie Finkelstein, Interfaith Dialogue Project Coordinator, University of Maryland Hillel Rawhi Afghani, Facilitator, Middle East Peace Group Denise B. Maybank, Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Services and Director of Student Life, Michigan State University Len and Libby Traubman, Co-Founders, Jewish/Palestinian Living Room Dialogue MODERATOR: Ken Kramarz, Peacemakers; Executive Campus Liason, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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4:45 - 6:00 pm Public Service in the Academy

Room 4 - MR What are the responsibilities of a university to the community? At both public and private institutions there is an increasing public service man- date. Fulfi lling that charge often asks members of the university to enter into innovative partnerships with community and civic organizations. In A addition, as service learning initiatives expand on campuses, universities are redefi ning the mission of public service and community citizenship. Join us to hear experts discuss the role that the university plays in fostering partnerships for a more civil society both on the campus and beyond.

Yvette M. Jones, Chief Operating Offi cer and Senior Vice President of External Affairs, Tulane University Patricia M. Lampkin, Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Offi cer, University of Virginia MODERATOR: Robert M. Hollister, Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Professor, Tufts University

4:45 - 6:00 pm Learning from Tradition: Religious Tradition as a Guide to Work, Life and Engaging with Civil Society

Room 5 - MR Among the infl uences affecting how we engage with civil society is our particular set of beliefs and religious traditions. This panel will focus on the connection between individuals’ faith and tradition and their chosen R professional paths. Each panelist will respond to the question, “How does your religious tradition inform the work you do and the way you interact with the world around you?,” with a group discussion to follow.

Kathleen Maas Weigert, Executive Director, Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service, Georgetown University Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, Director, Encounter Programs John W. Whitehead, President and Founder, The Rutherford Institute MODERATOR: LeNorman J. Strong, Assistant Vice President, Student and Academic Services, Cornell University

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4:45 - 6:00 pm The Campus and the News Media

Room 16 - MR When there is a crisis on campus, the media are sure to show up. But what about the rest of the year? Looking at unique cases from various universities, this panel will discuss the role that the media play in promoting civil discourse on campus and in portraying the campus to D society at large. Does the presence of media on campus contribute to civil discourse or detract from it? How do the media shape student life? And why should the media give colleges and universities coverage?

Lisa Hostein, Editor, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Susan Kurtz, Director, Hillel at Virginia Tech University Doug Lederman, Co-editor, Inside Higher Ed Andrew Mangino, Editor, Yale Daily News Aaron Weil, Executive Director, Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh MODERATOR: Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, School of Journalism, Columbia University

4:45 - 6:00 pm The Internationalization of the University Setting

Room 10/11 - MR The 21st century university experience is marked by porous geographic borders. Record numbers of students and professors spend time on campuses abroad and the composition of both faculty and student body on campuses is increasingly international. This mobility illustrates that D university life is no longer about one campus or one community; rather, we must now re-imagine the university in a global framework. This panel will focus on what it means for a university to exist in a fl attened world, exploring a variety of questions: What are the university’s responsibilities to acclimate foreign students and faculty to the native country’s campus and civic culture? How can universities best support and leverage the experiential education gained by students and faculty returning from time abroad? How can universities create partnerships with campuses abroad to further academic research, cultural exchange, and civic exchange? How can universities instill a sense of global citizenship in its students?

Fanta Aw, Assistant Vice President, Campus Life, American University James Buschman, Senior Director, Institutional Relations, New York University Chris Powers, Director, Educational Abroad Programs, Institute of International Education Saúl Sosnowski, Associate Provost, International Affairs, University of Maryland at College Park MODERATOR: Karen Moss, Co-Chair, FSU Committee and Member, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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4:45-6:00 pm Inspiring Social Entrepreneurship on Campus

Room 8/9 - MR Raised in a creative culture, many college students are already taking initiative and launching revolutionary social change. At the same time, models of entrepreneurship are being developed, particularly in the college setting. In this session, entrepreneurs and those who study A entrepreneurship will explore the nature of social entrepreneurship, the potential of this model of social change, and how to encourage and facilitate students’ implementation of their ideas.

Allison H. Fine, author, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age Danny Moldovan, Vice President, Change.org Barry S. Myers, Senior Associate Dean, Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization and Director, Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Duke University MODERATOR: Evan J. Segal, Member, International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

6:00 - 6:30 pm Meeting of Homeroom Facilitators

Congressional A - BR

Monday 6:00 pm Cornell Hillel Reception

Congressional C by invitation only

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7:00 - 10:00 pm Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard of the Smithsonian Dinner Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture

Join us for an evening of celebration. The evening will be hosted by Edgar M. Bronfman, Chairman of Hillel’s International Board of Governors, in the new Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard of the Smithsonian Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. The Reynolds Center houses both the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

The Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, with its elegant glass canopy designed by the world-renowned architectural fi rm Foster + Partners, is a signature element of the renovated National Historic Landmark building that houses the two museums. The enclosed courtyard provides a light- fi lled, 28,000-square-foot space and is Washington’s newest premier event venue.

The museums are located at Eighth and G Streets, just 2.5 blocks from The Renaissance Hotel. We will begin to walk together from the Main entrance of the Renaissance Hotel on Ninth Street to the museums at 6:50 p.m. If you prefer to take a cab, please ask the doorman at the hotel’s main entrance to hail one for you. A buffet dinner will be served beginning at 7 p.m., with the program to start at approximately 7:45 p.m. The museum is open to the public until 7:00 p.m. Feel free to visit the second and third fl oors of the museums before 7:00 p.m. The fi rst fl oor will remain open throughout the evening. (See map on page 67)

Evening Program

Celebrating Student Life Edgar M. Bronfman, Chairman, International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life David Einhorn, Member, Board of Directors and International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Joseph S. Kanfer, Chair of the Board of Trustees, United Jewish Communities; Member, International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Elizabeth Bernold, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ‘09 Wayne L. Firestone, President, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Performance by Kol Sasson, University of Maryland Hillel

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10:15 - 11:00 pm Movie Screening: 18 in ‘08

Auditorium - MR A fi rst-year student at Haverford College, David Burstein produced and directed 18 in ‘08 in order to issue a dramatic call to action to his peers. Targeted at 17-24 year olds, 18 in ‘08 focuses on the importance of the youth vote and the relevance of the political process to emerging adults. A It features interviews with a variety of politicians, public intellectuals, media fi gures, and activists - many of whom are students. To accompany the fi lm, Burstein has launched a campaign to motivate students to become civically engaged: to register to vote, to vote, and to make their voice heard. 18 in ‘08 has been screened in a variety of settings, and Burstein has told the fi lm’s story in several media outlets.

After the screening of the fi lm, Burstein will be available to answer questions and discuss the project.

Introduction: Adam Frankel, University of Arizona ‘08; Member, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

11:15 pm - 12:00 am Fireside Chat

Auditorium - MR Join Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow, and Hillel President Wayne L. Firestone for an intimate, students-only conversation.

Greetings S David Einhorn, Member, Board of Directors and International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Introduction: Joshua Borenstein, New York University ‘08; Member, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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7:30 - 9:30 am Millennials and Activism

Grand Ballroom This special plenary session is made possible through the generosity of Judy and North & Central Abel Friedman. Breakfast will be served. - BR Introduction: Lynn Schusterman, Chair, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Co-Chair, Hillel’s International Board of Governors A Generation X gained its name from its reputed “slacker” nature, and just as we were growing accustomed to low voter turnout and minimal activism from this reputedly apathetic cohort, the Millennial generation arose. Research on emerging adults illustrates that they continue to be self- oriented and that they concentrate their time on personal exploration and development. Yet, Millennials are also the service generation, and events of late demonstrate that young adults are showing up to the polls in extraordinary numbers. The stage of life of emerging adults juxtaposes oddly with their generational outlook, which suggests that Millennials care, and care deeply, about the world around them. They will strengthen civil discourse within their world by ensuring that everyone exercises his or her voice.

Join renowned journalist Judy Woodruff for an active discussion of the tensions embedded within this generation. Woodruff will draw on her own research on Millennials to explore the civic identity and expressions of emerging adults with subject-matter experts, and will then turn to two students, each of whom is leading work in this area.

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Clark University; author, Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties David Burstein, Director and Producer, “18 in ‘08” Andrew Mangino, Co-Founder, Scoop08.com; Editor, Yale Daily News Heather Smith, Executive Director, Rock the Vote MODERATOR: Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS

Presentation of Philip H. and Susan Rudd Cohen Student Exemplars of Excellence Awards Join us in celebrating the achievements of seven exemplary outstanding student leaders world who will be recognized for modeling what it means to promote Hillel’s mission of enriching the Jewish people and the world on their campuses and in their communities.

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Presenters: Philip H. Cohen, Member, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Julian Sandler, Chairman, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Exemplars: Liz Cohen, University of Kansas Matt Cohen, Tufts University Fernando Farji, Hillel Argentina Elizabeth Leiwant, Bowdoin College Jonathan Newcombe, Hunter College Allison Rose, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ari Stern, American University

Breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m. The program will start promptly at 8:15 a.m.

9:45 - 11:00 am Joint Ventures: The Jewish Community and the University

Room 15 - MR Throughout North America, Jewish communities are located in close proximity to universities. The Jewish community and the university world share many values and both face challenges related to building a civil A society. Examples of successful partnerships are numerous, but not in proportion to the number of initiatives. Many of these initiatives grow out of crises on campus, and the leadership of each community could capitalize on each other’s strengths. Join us to learn from these leaders about current initiatives and how to build strategic relationships to strengthen communities.

Dottie Bennett, National Chair, Project Interchange, American Jewish Committee Jeffrey H. Finkelstein, President and Chief Executive Offi cer, United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Marc Gold, President, Federation CJA; professor, McGill University Ilan Troen, Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, Brandeis University MODERATOR: Bruce Sholk, Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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9:45 - 11:00 am Spiritual Exploration and Multifaith Understanding: The Role & Responsibilities of the Academy

Room 16 - MR College students have a special opportunity to open themselves to the faith traditions of others, and they typically do so from within their own tradi- tion. As academic institutions help students stretch their ability to hold multiple ideas and perspectives, these institutions can also guide them R toward being more secure in and knowledgeable about their own identity. This is a delicate juggling act, one in which Hillel and parallel organiza- tions also engage. In this session, panelists and those attending will consid- er the following questions among others: How do universities deliberately build environments of pluralism and focused spiritual exploration? What is the correlation between students’ impulses toward spiritual exploration and their interest in knowing about religious traditions and approaches beyond that of their childhood?

Rabbi James S. Diamond, Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University Reverend Joseph Eldridge, University Chaplain, American University Peter L. Laurence, Founder and Executive Director, Education as Transformation, Inc. MODERATOR: Rabbi Susan Laemmle, Dean of Religious Life, University of Southern California

9:45 - 11:00 am Preserving a Civil Society on Campus

Room 5 - MR Free speech is a basic right, but sometimes the boundary between free speech and purposefully incendiary statements is blurred beyond recognition. Drawing on the experiences from within several universities and of faculty, staff, and administrators, this session will offer a sensitive, D insightful evaluation of the university’s responsibility during a free speech crisis and how to protect a civil society on campus while weighing concerns about both free speech and pubic safety.

Lisa M. Coleman, Executive Director, Offi ce of Institutional Diversity, Tufts University Harry Mairson, Professor of Computer Science, Brandeis University Larry Moneta, Vice President for Student Affairs, Duke University Stephen P. Steinberg, Advisor to the President, University of Pennsylvania MODERATOR: Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit, Executive Director, Hillel Foundation at Tufts University

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9:45 - 11:00 am The Public Service Requirement: A Faculty Perspective

Room 8/9 - MR At public and private universities, faculty members generally have a “public service” or “citizenship” responsibility. Fulfi lling that responsibility often asks that faculty members encounter issues of identity and obligation. They also enter into innovative partnerships with university and A community organizations and face challenges in balancing roles and expectations. This session will explore different interpretations of this citizenship and community requirement and examine how faculty members ground their citizenship work in their personal traditions.

Robert H. Abzug, Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History, University of Texas Phyllis K. Leffl er, Director, Institute for Public History and Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia Pamela S. Nadell, Patrick Clendenen Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, American University MODERATOR: Ralph S. Taber, Senior Associate Dean of the College and Dean of Students, Franklin and Marshall College

9:45 - 11:00 am When Idealism Meets Reality: Doing Good While Doing Well

Room 10/11 - MR for students only When the rubber hits the road and we fi nally graduate, many of us go out in search of meaningful employment, jobs consistent with our sense of idealism and our desire to change the world for the better. But what S happens when “meaningful” doesn’t immediately translate into “gainful?” When paying the rent and avoiding a ramen-only diet proves more challenging than we expected? This session will engage experts and recent graduates in a conversation focused around your future. Join your fellow students to hear experts and recent graduates discuss what happens when idealism and realism collide.

Daniel Frankenstein, Director, Member Services, Corporate Executive Board Josh Kram, Hillary Clinton for President Mike Schaub, Executive Director, Career Education Center, Georgetown University Julia Smith, Community Outreach Coordinator, Action Without Borders/Idealist.org MODERATOR: Avi Mayer, Bronfman Fellow, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life INTRODUCTIONS: Andrew Coonin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ‘09, Member, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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11:15 am - 12:45 pm Homeroom

#1-15: Homeroom will give us a space for contemplation of the Summit’s themes. Congressional A Borrowing from the “World Café” methodology that addresses “questions #16-30: that matter,” in Homeroom, we will join a small group of our peers, by Congressional B role and also by campus, to consider our challenges and responsibilities in #31-45: building a civil society. Homeroom is meant to help Summit participants Congressional C get to the heart of these matters quickly, to learn from each other in open – BR and unstructured conversations, and to develop ideas that we can use beyond the Summit.

Each Summit participant has a letter and two numbers on his or her nametag. Please participate in the Homeroom session that corresponds with your letter, and please join the table that corresponds with your fi rst number.

LEAD FACILITATOR: LeNorman J. Strong, Assistant Vice-President, Student and Academic Services, Cornell University

1:00 - 2:30 pm Lunch and Campus Showcase

Grand Ballroom During the Campus Showcase, meet with representatives of top non-profi t - BR organizations addressing the issues related to the theme of the Summit. These organizations will present cutting edge initiatives that you can bring to your campus communities. Visit the Weinberg Tzedek Hillel table to learn how Hillel is developing successful partnerships focused on the Jewish value of repairing the world. Buffet lunch will be served.

1:00 pm & 1:30 pm Charles and Lynn Schusterman International Center Tours

Tours meet in the lobby of the Schusterman International Center

1:15-2:30 pm Small and Mighty Campus Meeting

Congressional C Please join others from Small and Mighty (Soref) campuses, or colleges - BR and universities without full-time Hillel professionals, as we talk over lunch about how we can work together to help form a more civil society within our communities.

Please pick up lunch from buffet in Grand Ballroom.

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FACILITATED BY: Deb Geiger, Senior Associate, Soref Initiative, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Ralph S. Taber, Senior Associate Dean of the College and Dean of Students, Franklin and Marshall College

2:45 - 4:00 pm Last Lectures

The Last Lecture series is modeled on the successful Golden Apple Award, a concept initiated in 1991 by University of Michigan Hillel and Apple Computer. The award, co-sponsored by 20 university academic departments, is the only teaching award at the university conferred by the students. Each year, one of dozens of nominees is selected and invited to a 1,000-seat hall in the spring to give his or her ideal last lecture - the lecture that the professor would want to give if it were the last one of his or her teaching career.

The inspiration for the annual event came from one of the great teachers of the Jewish tradition, Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrkanus, who himself professed in the pages of the Talmud, “Get your life in order one day before you die,” thus teaching that each of us should always be giving our last lectures.

Here, each honored professor will address the Summit’s theme and imagine with us a more civil society.

Congressional B Jenny Mandelbaum, Associate Professor of Communications, Rutgers University – BR INTRODUCTION: Andrew Getraer, Executive Director, Rutgers University Hillel

Congressional A Ralph Williams, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of – BR Michigan INTRODUCTION: Michael Brooks, Executive Director, University of Michigan Hillel

Grand Ballroom Ruth R. Wisse, Harvard College Professor, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish South – BR Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University INTRODUCTION: Theodore Chestnut, Research Analyst, Corporate Executive Board, Harvard College, Class of 2006

A book signing will follow the Last Lectures.

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4:15 - 5:30 pm Innovative Partnerships: University Advancement and the Jewish Community

Room 8/9 - MR The Jewish community has a long tradition of supporting higher education. The creation of signifi cant new wealth in recent years has led to a dramatic rise in giving to institutions of higher learning. Recognizing this A opportunity, many universities are seeking ways to strengthen relationships with various stakeholders to enrich campus life. This panel will highlight innovative models and partnerships between the university and the Jewish community, with a focus on creating new cooperative paradigms to enhance Jewish life on campus.

Sergio Gonzalez, Vice President for University Advancement and External Affairs, University of Miami Laurel Price Jones, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, The George Washington University Brodie Remington, Vice President of University Relations, University of Maryland MODERATOR: Beatrice S. Mandel, Regent Emerita, University of California

4:15 - 5:30 pm The Fabric of Service: Working Together To Meet Our Missions

Room 5 - MR One of the most important ways that we can learn each other’s truths is through side-by-side activities. Most specifi cally, when we volunteer our time to better our world, we learn about each other and we give others A an opportunity to advance. To these ends, formal service-learning courses have become the norm in colleges and universities across the United States. Informal service-learning and social justice initiatives, like Hillel’s Alternative Break programs, are burgeoning, facilitated by various student life organizations. This interactive session will explore the differences between informal and formal service-learning, how each can inform the success of the other, and how evaluation can play an integral part in developing best practices.

Dr. Herman Berliner, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Hofstra University Simon Klarfeld, Executive Director, Columbia/Barnard Hillel Peter Konwerski, Assistant Vice President, Student and Academic Support Services, The George Washington University Jill Piacitelli, Executive Director, Break Away MODERATOR: Barbara Roswell, Assistant Professor of English, Goucher College

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4:15 - 5:30 pm Religion, Speech, and the Public Square

Room 4 - MR How can we communicate across differences of ideology and religion? Is spiritual discourse in the public square desirable or even possible? Shall we check our identities at the door? These questions are central to R democratic institutions large (presidential politics) and small (college campuses). In this interactive session, we will explore the issues via close study of a small set of texts from the Western and Jewish traditions.

SESSION LEADER: Jon A. Levisohn, Assistant Professor of Jewish Education and, by courtesy, of Philosophy, Brandeis University

4:15 - 5:30 pm Responding to Darfur: The Power of Community

Auditorium - MR Over the last few years we have witnessed the growth of a movement to respond to the atrocities in the Sudan. University students played a central role in this effort, and successfully partnered with the community to A mobilize a nation. Come hear from some of the leaders of the “Save Darfur” movement and learn how the community and university can also partner to address other social issues.

Ruth W. Messinger, President, American Jewish World Service Reverend Gloria White-Hammond, co-Pastor, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church; Board of Trustees, Tufts University Daniel R. Porterfi eld, Vice President for Public Affairs and Strategic Development and Assistant Professor, English, Georgetown University MODERATOR: Bluma B. Stoller, Member, 2008 Summit Planning Committee; past Co-Chair, Weinberg Tzedek Hillel Committee; former Member, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

5:30 pm Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning Reception

Congressional C by invitation only

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6:30 - 9:00 pm Dinner and Presidential Plenary: Is the Personal, Presidential? Refl ections on Ethnicity, Faith, Gender, and Leadership

Grand Ballroom Greetings North & Central Irene R. Kaplan, President, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington - BR Introduction LeNorman J. Strong, Assistant Vice President, Student and Academic Services, I Cornell University Our personal experiences inevitably shape our professional lives. The relationship can be particularly challenging for college and university presidents, who are not only decision-makers but also models for young people and symbols of their institutions. In this conversation, presidents will discuss how their own identities are woven into their professional lives, illuminating the challenges and opportunities of leading a diverse community while maintaining a deeply felt personal perspective.

Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Syracuse University Ralph J. Hexter, President, Hampshire College Jackie Jenkins-Scott, President, Wheelock College Richard M. Joel, President, Yeshiva University MODERATOR: Morton Owen Schapiro, President, Williams College

A dessert reception will follow the plenary.

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9:00 - 10:15 am The Promise of Higher Education

Grand Ballroom In the summer of 2007, The New York Times ran an essay contest asking South - BR for responses to the question, “Is College Still Relevant?” Similarly, scholar and public intellectual Stanley Fish has just published a text questioning the impact of a liberal arts education today. Yet, college has the opportu- I nity to play a larger role in the lives of emerging adults than ever before, helping them to explore life’s big questions in a growingly uncertain world. Join this conversation that will examine the promise of higher education. Panelists, each an expert on student life and affairs, will address the question from within his or her unique perspective.

Rabbi Joshua Feigelson, Campus Rabbi, Fiedler Hillel Center at Northwestern University Peter Levine, Director, CIRCLE Nancy D. Young, Vice President for Student Affairs, University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus MODERATOR: Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy, Executive Director, NASPA

9:00 - 10:15 am Engaging the Next Generation: Lessons From the New Service Society

Grand Ballroom In 2006, approximately one-third of college and university students were North & Central engaged in service. What is the benefi t of students participating in service - BR learning and how can those numbers be increased? What is the potential for partnership and collaboration to increase resources to help advance service learning? Hear from some of the innovators in the fi eld of service A to learn insights, best practices and important lessons that can be translated to the universities.

Michael Brown, CEO and co-Founder, CityYear Amy B. Cohen, Director, Learn and Serve America, Corporation for National and Community Service Eric J. Mlyn, Director, Duke Center for Civic Engagement/DukeEngage, Duke University MODERATOR: Lisa Eisen, National Director, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation

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10:30 am - 12:00 pm Constructing a More Civil Society

Grand Ballroom Diana Chapman Walsh has suggested that for today’s college or university North & Central president, “speaking one’s own truth and really hearing the truth of - BR others” must be paramount. At the same time, as Stephen Joel Trachtenberg has pointed out, decisions undertaken for the collective good have the potential to make some segments of the community unhappy. “It is a dynamic political world out there. What thrills faculty may I be annoying to students and troubling to trustees.” The Summit’s closing conversation will offer distinguished past presidents an opportunity to share their experiences in working to build a civil society on campus.

Introduction: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President Emeritus, The George Washington University Diana Chapman Walsh, President Emerita, Wellesley College MODERATOR: David Ward, American Council on Education

Closing Remarks: Beatrice S. Mandel, Co-Chair, Summit on the University and the Jewish Community David M. Cohen, Co-Chair, Summit on the University and the Jewish Community

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Robert H. Abzug Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Director of the new Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin Robert H. Abzug is Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Director of the new Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas. Abzug’s scholarship has explored the formation of social and moral con- sciousness in American culture in various settings. He is the author of Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform (1980), Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (1985), Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994), and America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (1999). He is currently completing a biography of the psychologist, Rollo May, which explores the interpenetration of religion and psychotherapy in American society. Abzug has also consulted on numerous documentary fi lms, the latest of which is Borrowing Time (2006), the portrait of an American Holocaust survivor.

Rawhi Afghani Facilitator, Middle East Peace Group Rawhi Afghani is a doctoral candidate in Confl ict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. His dissertation will address the role of media in peace making during violent confl icts; a topic that is very close to his heart and profes- sion. Although, media has been the greatest source to expose a confl ict and conditions leading to it, unfortunately, media reporting hardly spotlight efforts for reconciliation and peacebuilding. Afghani was raised in a refugee camp called Balata Camp near Nabluss in the West Bank, and was educated in Prague. He received a Bachelor degree in TV journalism and MA in Journalism and Political Science. He works in journalism and political analyses.

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Clark University Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. During 2005 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research and of two encyclopedias published in 2007, the International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (Routledge, two volumes) and the Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media (Sage, two volumes). Dr. Arnett is the originator of the theory of emerging adulthood and the author of numerous articles on emerging adulthood, as well as the textbook Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach (2004, Prentice Hall). His book Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties, was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press.

Robert P. Aronson Chief Executive Offi cer, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit; Acting President, The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Celebrating his 19th year with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Chief Executive Offi cer, Robert P. Aronson is known throughout the world as a driving force in philanthropy and passionate supporter of the State of Israel. Since taking the helm of the Federation, Aronson has been instrumental in creating its largest fundraising effort, the $60 million Millennium Campaign to enrich Jewish family experience with a focus on renovation and renewal on the city’s two Jewish Community Center campuses. As a private philanthropic consultant, Mr. Aronson serves as advisor to William Davidson, owner of Guardian Industries Corp, and Michael H. Steinhardt, owner of Jewish Renaissance Media. He serves on the board of trustees of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is a founder and creator of the Professional Leaders Project, a national initiative to recruit and develop professional and volunteer talent to assume executive leadership positions throughout the American Jewish community.

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Fanta Aw Assistant Vice President of Campus Life, American University Fanta Aw has been Assistant Vice President of Campus Life at American University since September 2007. Prior to assuming the functions of Assistant Vice President, she was director of International Student and Scholar from 1998- 2007. Aw serves as a senior administrative offi cer of the Offi ce of Campus Life (executive level) with responsibility for the development and administration of intercultural student services, policies and programs. She has over 15 years of experience in the fi eld of international education exchange and higher education. Aw has taught and lectured on a range of international and intercultural topics at AU and at The George Washington University. She had led workshops for organizations including the Department of State, the Institute for International Education, American Council, the Academy for Education Development, and NAFSA: Association of International Educators, among others.

Lawrence S. Bacow President, Tufts University; Co-Chair, Summit 2008 Lawrence S. Bacow is President of Tufts University. A lawyer and economist whose research focuses on environmental policy, he holds faculty appointments in fi ve departments at Tufts. Dr. Bacow serves on the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bacow is a director of Tufts-New England Medical Center, Cummings Foundation and Campus Compact. He is an active participant with his colleagues in the New England Small Colleges Athletic Conference. President Bacow is a trustee of Wheaton College and a member of the Board of Overseers of Hebrew College. He is a frequent keynote speaker on higher education and environmental issues. Prior to coming to Tufts, Dr. Bacow was the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies.

Dottie Bennett National Chair, Project Interchange Dottie Bennett is chair of Project Interchange, an Institute of the American Jewish Committee which sends infl uential non-Jews to Israel for educational purposes. She is also past chair, National Council, The American Jewish Committee, a member of AJC’s National Board of Governors, AJC’s Executive Committee and past president of the AJC Washington Chapter. She has also been AJC’s national chair, Inter religious Affairs. Bennett is also involved with AIPAC where she sits on the Executive Committee. She is a 2004 Presidential appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council where she chaired the Collections and Artifacts Committee and now chairs the Education Commit- tee. She also serves on its Executive Committee. She serves on the Board of the United Jewish Endowment Fund and its grants and development committees where she works on major gifts and endowments. She also is a Board member of the Harold Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations. Previously she served as Vice President for Multiple Appeals of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. She works with Planning and Allocations and serves as support for Outreach and Engagement. She is a 2003 recipient of the Offi cer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Herman A. Berliner Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Lawrence Herbert Distinguished Professor, Hofstra University Herman Berliner became Provost at Hofstra University in 1990. The Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs is second in command to the President at the University. As Chief Academic Offi cer, Dr. Berliner has oversight responsibilities for all the Colleges, Schools and academic programs of the University, as well as the Library, the Hofstra Cultural Center, the Hofstra Museum, Career Services, and the Saltzman Community Services Center. Dr. Berliner joined Hofstra University in 1970. He has served in a number of key administrative positions, including Dean of the School of Business as well as Acting Dean of the School of Education. He is also the former President and a lifetime board member of the Long Island Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and a TIAA/CREF Institute Fellow.

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Edgar M. Bronfman Chairman, International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus As Chairman of Hillel’s International Board of Governors, Mr. Bronfman has fostered a global renaissance of Jewish life, and has visited over 110 Hillels on campuses throughout North America and overseas. Under Mr. Bronfman’s leadership, Hillel has substantially increased its resources and programs for students, and opened scores of new Hillels in North America, South America, Israel and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Mr. Bronfman became presi- dent of Distillers Corporation-Seagrams Ltd. in 1971. He became Chairman in 1975 and served in that capacity until its merger into Vivendi Universal in 2000. Mr. Bronfman is past-president of the World Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Restitution Organization. One of his crowning achievements was winning restitution for Holocaust victims whose assets had been held in Swiss banks. In 1999, President Clinton presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Michael Brooks Executive Director, University of Michigan Hillel Michael Brooks is Executive Director of University of Michigan Hillel. He lectures and consults for Jewish federations, Jewish community centers, synagogues and schools on strengthening and stretching the boundaries of the Jewish community and creating a Jewish public culture that will make Jews feel that it is a privilege to be part of the Jewish community. He taught for many years at the University of Michigan in the Program on Studies in Religion. He has also served on the faculties of the Brandeis-Bardin Collegiate Institute, and the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and Wexner Heritage Program Summer Institutes. In 1997 he received the Covenant Award in recognition of his work as one of the country’s outstanding Jewish educators, and he once opened for comedian Yaakov Smirnof.

Michael Brown CEO and Co-Founder, City Year, Inc. Michael Brown is the Co-Founder and CEO of City Year, a national youth service corps that helped to inspire the development of AmeriCorps. Founded in 1988, City Year now operates in 17 cities across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa, enlisting more than 1,500 young adults for a demanding year of full-time community service, civic engagement and leadership development and providing strategic leadership for the national service movement. For his work developing City Year, Michael Brown has been awarded several distinctions, most notably the Reebok Human Rights Award, and four honorary degrees. He was also chosen as one of America’s Best Leaders by US News and World Report in 2006. Mr. Brown is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as a member of the Harvard Law Review and was a clerk for Federal Judge Stephen Breyer.

Daniel A. Burack Managing Partner, Altman Burack Schenker Partners Daniel A. Burack is a private investor in real estate and a Managing Partner of Altman Burack Schenker Partners, a real estate investment and asset management fi rm. Burack participates in a number of charities and was awarded the B’Nai Brith Brotherhood Award. He was National Alumni Chairman for the University of Vermont and was awarded a distinguished Service Award for his services and will receive an Honorary Doctoral Degree from UVM this spring. He is on the Finance Committee of White Plains Hospital. He is the founder of the Harrison Educational Foundation and served as its Chairman for a number of years. Carole and Dan Burack are members of the King David Society of UJA Federation and are very active supporters of Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts, where Carole serves on the Board.

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David D. Burstein Founder and Executive Director, 18 in ‘08 David D. Burstein is the Founder and Executive Director of 18 in ’08, the nation’s largest youth-run young voter engagement organization. The organization is based on David’s documentary fi lm of the same name. 18 in ’08, aimed at getting young voters engaged with the political process, is the product of three years traveling the country, interviewing over 100 Congressmen, Senators, presidential candidates, policy makers, and activists. In May, 2005, David was appointed to serve on the Weston Commission for Children and Youth, responsible for advising his home town on issues and activities related to students and children. He has also won numerous awards for his work in fi ction and journalistic writing as well as theater arts. He is a student at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

James Buschman Senior Director of Institutional Relations, New York University’s Offi ce of Global Education Dr. James Buschman is Senior Director of Institutional Relations for New York University’s Offi ce of Global Education. NYU leads the nation in the number of its undergraduates abroad. Dr. Buschman has been a study abroad administra- tor for over 20 years, including two years directing a program in Brazil. His current work includes overseeing NYU’s activities with professional associations in international education and working with administrators at colleges and universities across the United States who may be interested in sending their students on NYU programs of study abroad in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. He has recently been involved in the development of new NYU program sites in Shanghai and Buenos Aires.

Nancy Cantor Chancellor, Syracuse University Nancy Cantor is Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, as well as Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Cantor came to Syracuse from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was chancellor. Dr. Cantor is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She is the past chair of the board of directors of the American Association for Higher Education and former chair of the board of the American Council on Education. She serves on the board of the American Institutes for Research and the advisory board of Future of Minority Studies, Paul Taylor Dance Foundation Board of Directors, and as an Honorary Trustee of the American Psychological Foundation. She has served as a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Survey of Student Engagement and on a Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues.

Amy B. Cohen Director, Learn and Serve America, Corporation for National and Community Service Amy Cohen is director of Learn and Serve America at the Corporation for National and Community Service. Learn and Serve America is the federal resource for service learning in schools, community organizations, and higher education. Prior to joining Learn and Serve America, Cohen worked at the Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania.

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David M. Cohen Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life; Member, Hillel’s International Board of Governors; Co-Chair, Summit 2008 David M. Cohen is a Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and co-chair of the 2008 Summit. He also serves as the United States co-chair of the Hillels of Israel Committee. Cohen was elected Chair Emeritus of the Board of Cornell University Hillel in June 2003. He is serving his second term as a member of Cornell Council and is a long-time member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee of the Cornell ILR School. Cohen is Deputy Commissioner and Labor Counsel of the New York City Police Department, where he is the principal advisor for all matters related to labor and employment law. In 2006, he retired as Assistant Vice President - Administration at the Columbia University Medical Center, and previously was Assistant Vice President - Employee and Labor Relations for Columbia for nine years.

Lisa M. Coleman Executive Director, Offi ce of Institutional Diversity, Tufts University Lisa M. Coleman, Ph.D., is currently the Executive Director of the Offi ce of Institutional Diversity (OID) at Tufts University. She also teaches in the American Studies and Women’s Studies programs. Her Ph.D. work is in American Studies, specifi cally in Social and Cultural Theory, and she also received a Master’s of Arts in Africana Studies and a Master’s of Arts in Women’s Studies. Coleman has worked with a number of institutions as a faculty member and on developing institutional diversity programs including the City University of New York, Vassar College, the Association of American Medical Colleges and Merrill Lynch. She has also served as a member of the New York Council for the Humanities, 2001-2007, speakers bureau. Coleman continues to present and lecture on diversity-related subject matter.

Maureen F. Curley President, Campus Compact Maureen F. Curley is president of Campus Compact, a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents dedicated to advancing campus-based service, service-learning, and civic engagement. Curley has served as Director of Public Policy for the Community Service Society of New York and as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Service Alliance. She also founded the Forum for Women Leaders of Nonprofi t Organizations. Most recently she was the Chief Relationship Offi cer for Bridgestar, where she developed services to connect executive-level managers with career and board opportunities in the nonprofi t sector. Curley has taught courses on nonprofi t and volunteer manage- ment at Columbia University, New York University, and UMass-Boston. Currently she serves on the board of directors of the National Service-Learning Partnership and Friends of the Children - Boston.

Rabbi James S. Diamond Princeton University Rabbi James S. Diamond teaches in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. In 2004 he concluded a career in Hillel that spanned 36 years. During that time he served as Executive Director of Hillels at Indiana University, Washington University, and, more recently, at Princeton. He is a member of ARIL, the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, and has served as a Scholar in Residence at its Coolidge Colloquium. Rabbi Diamond was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary.

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Neil DiBiase President, Student Union, Tufts University Neil DiBiase is a junior at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts majoring in History and Political Science. He is currently President of the Student Body and is active in Hillel, intramural soccer, basketball, and tennis, as well as model united nations. After graduation, Neil hopes to live in the Middle East analyzing Security Policy before returning to the States for Law School. This summer, he will be working for the State Department at the United States Embassy in Morocco.

Michael V. Drake Chancellor, University of California, Irvine Michael V. Drake, M.D., is chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. Prior to his arrival at UCI, Chancellor Drake served as vice president for health affairs at the University of California, overseeing education and research activities at UC’s 15 health sciences schools. Drake was elected to the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine in 1998 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. He is the immediate past national president of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and is chair of the board of trustees of the Association of Academic Health Centers. He was inducted into the Gold Headed Cane Society in 2003, received the Legislative Black Caucus Foundation’s Frederick M. Roberts Award and was awarded the 2007 Champions of Health Professions Diversity by The California Wellness Foundation.

Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy Executive Director, NASPA Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy has been executive director of NASPA since 1995. Before joining NASPA, Dr. Dungy was asso- ciate director of the Curriculum and Faculty Development Network and coordinator of the National Diversity Network at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Previously, she was a senior administrator at the County College of Morris (NJ), Montgomery College (MD), and Catonsville Community College (MD), and a member of the faculty at St. Louis Community College (MO). Dr. Dungy has served on the American Council on Education’s Commission on Government Relations; as a member of the board of directors of the American Association of University Women’s Legal Advocacy Fund, the AAUW Educational Foundation, and the Morris Shelter and Morris Museum; and as a trustee of Gettysburg College, the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn School of Journalism, Columbia University Cheryl Strauss Einhorn teaches business, economic & fi nancial journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before that, she worked for several years in the Investigative News Unit at Inside Edition, where she won the 2005 ACE Award for Achievement in Consumer Reporting for her news-breaking investigation into charities. Einhorn spent ten years as an editor and columnist at Barron’s, where her coverage of the futures markets won her the honor of being named the best commodities reporter in the country by TJFR Group. During her tenure at Barron’s, Einhorn also worked as an on-air analyst covering the futures markets daily for CNBC. Einhorn received her Master’s in Journalism from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism She graduated magna cum laude with a BA in history and government from Cornell University.

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David Einhorn President, Greenlight Capital, Inc.; Member, Hillel International Board of Governors David Einhorn is president of Greenlight Capital, Inc., which he co-founded in January 1996. Greenlight is a value- oriented investment advisor whose goal is to achieve high absolute rates of return while minimizing the risk of capital loss. Greenlight’s investment philosophy is to combine the analytical discipline of determining fair value with a practical understanding of markets. The fi rm believes that an investment approach that emphasizes intrinsic value will achieve consistent absolute investment returns and safeguard capital regardless of market conditions. Einhorn is Chairman of the Board of Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. and a Director of BioFuel Energy Corp. He also serves on the boards of Hillel; The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research; Natan; and on the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation. Einhorn graduated summa cum laude with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, where he earned a B.A. from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Lisa Eisen National Director, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Lisa Eisen is National Program Director of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (CLSFF) and Director of its Washington, D.C. offi ce. She spearheads the Foundation’s efforts to enhance Jewish life in the United States and to foster a vibrant dynamic American Jewish community. Lisa leads CLSFF’s strategic initiatives to promote Israel education and advocacy on campus and to advance the standing of Israel in academia. The Founder and Steering Committee Chair of the Israel on Campus Coalition, she also designed the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professors program and oversees CLSFF’s plans to enhance Jewish studies in the U.S., including establishing the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas. Lisa serves on the national boards of BBYO, Inc., Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, Hillel in the FSU, Panim and Project Interchange Seminars in Israel, where she formerly served as Executive Director.

Reverend Joseph Eldridge University Chaplain, American University Joseph Eldridge is University Chaplain and Adjunct Faculty in the School of International Service at American University. He has spent more than 25 years working in the public policy arena as advocate and analyst on international human rights and humanitarian issues. In 1991 he established the Washington offi ce of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights; during the mid-1980s he worked in Honduras consulting on human rights and development issues; and after a three-year sojourn in Chile in the early 1970s he co-founded the Washington Offi ce on Latin America and served as its fi rst director. He has a Master’s in International Relations from American University, a MDiv from Perkins School of Theology at SMU, and a DMin from Wesley Theological Seminary.

Allison H. Fine Author, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age Allison H. Fine is the author of the recently released Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age (Wiley), winner of the 2007 Terry McAdam National Nonprofi t Book Award. Momentum is a fresh, lively roadmap for social change in the digital age and was cited as a recommended read by the Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a senior fellow at Demos: A Network for Thinking and Action where her work focuses on increasing political participation. Allison is the founder of Innovation Network, Inc. (InnoNet), the former CEO of E-Volve Foundation, and currently serves on the board of directors of Just Vision and The Hope for Henry Foundation.

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Jeffrey H. Finkelstein President and CEO, United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Jeffrey H. Finkelstein is the President and CEO of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. The 96-year-old United Jewish Federation is one of the nation’s oldest Federations and one of Pittsburgh’s largest philanthropies. Mr. Finkelstein was named to his current position in 2004. Mr. Finkelstein joined the staff of the UJF in 1998 as Director of the Annual Community Campaign and was later named Vice President of Development. Under his professional leadership, the Pittsburgh Federation has raised more funds than at any other period in its history. In the past three consecutive years, The United Jewish Federation has been recognized as one of the 50 best places to work in Pittsburgh by The Pittsburgh Business Times. Mr. Finkelstein came to Pittsburgh following fi ve years of development work with THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore.

Wayne L. Firestone President, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Wayne L. Firestone, was named as President of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life in September, 2006. He has held leadership positions in the Jewish community since becoming a Hillel activist in college. Firestone most recently served Executive Vice President for the Hillel in the U.S. and was simultaneously the staff director for Hillel’s Strategic Planning Committee which developed a comprehensive, fi ve-year organizational plan. Previously, Firestone was Executive Director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, a partnership of Hillel and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation that brings together 35 pro-Israel groups working on campus. In November 2006, Firestone was named by The Jewish Daily Forward as one of the “Forward 50,” key infl uencers who are impacting the way American Jews view the world and themselves.

Daniel Frankenstein Director of Member Services, Corporate Executive Board Daniel Frankenstein is a Director of Member Services at the Corporate Executive Board, a $650-Million publicly traded (NASDAQ: EXBD) best practice research fi rm. Frankenstein manages $10 million in company contract value working with Chief Financial Offi cers from Fortune 1000 Companies through the Corporate Executive Board’s CFO Executive Board program. He joined the Corporate Executive Board in 2004 as a Senior Analyst supporting members in the CFO program and has served as an Account Manager, Account Director, and now as a Director. Frankenstein graduated from the University of California – Berkeley in 2004 with a B.S. in Environmental Economics and Policy and a Minor in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business. While at Berkeley, he served as a Senator of the Associated Students of the University of California and as President of the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity.

Andrew Getraer Executive Director, Rutgers Hillel Andrew Getraer is in his 7th year as the Executive Director of Rutgers Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. With nearly 5,000 Jewish students, Rutgers University has the fourth largest Jewish population of any campus in America, and Hillel is the largest student organization at Rutgers. Under Getraer’s leadership, Hillel has quadrupled the number of students involved with Hillel, doubled Hillel’s annual budget, and is now embarking on a $15 Million Capital & Endowment Campaign. Before entering the fi eld of Jewish communal leadership, Andrew spent nine years as Marketing Director for the Geothermal Power Company, a privately held international renewable energy company. Mr. Getraer has also worked for NBC News, and holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Marc Gold President, Federation CJA, Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University Marc Gold is the President of FEDERATION CJA and the co-President of La Fondation de la Tolérance. Born in Montreal, Gold is a graduate of McGill University and holds law degrees from the University of British Columbia and Harvard Law School. A former law professor and Associate Dean at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, he currently is Vice-President of Maxwell Cummings & Sons Holdings Limited and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Conseil de l’Université, Université de Montréal. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of United Israel Appeals Federations Canada, a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canada-Israel Committee.

Sergio M. Gonzalez Vice President for University Advancement and External Affairs, University of Miami Mr. Gonzalez currently serves as Vice President for University Advancement and External Affairs at the University of Miami. In this capacity, Mr. Gonzalez oversees all development, communications, community relations, government and alumni affairs for the university. He oversees all facets of the university’s advancement operations and played a lead role in the university’s $1.4 billion fundraising campaign which ended on December 31, 2007 and well exceeded its goal. Mr. Gonzalez was instrumental in most of the leadership gifts of the campaign, including $100, $50, and $30 million gifts. During his tenure, the university broke a number of fundraising records and received numerous national fundraising awards. He works closely with University President Donna E. Shalala and the University’s Board of Trustees and Deans in formulating and implementing initiatives for the university. Prior to his appointment at the University of Miami, Mr. Gonzalez served as Chief of Staff to Miami-Dade County Executive Mayor Alex Penelas, where he directed all of the mayor’s operations. He has served on a number of community and corporate boards including the Dade Community Foundation, the Make-A-Wish Foundation and TotalBank. He is also a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Andy Guess Reporter, Inside Higher Ed Andy Guess, came to Inside Higher Ed from National Public Radio, where he worked on the organization’s podcasting initiative. His fi rst journalism assignment, in sixth grade, was a computer game review for The Washington Post. Since then he has sought to combine his love of computers and new media with writing. He graduated from Cornell University, where he edited The Cornell Daily Sun and dabbled in documentaries. While there, he developed his interest in higher ed issues, becoming a contributor to the MetaEzra alumni blog after prolonging graduation to January 2006.

Amy Gutmann President, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Amy Gutmann is president of the University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Board of Governors of the Partnership for Public Service. In 2005, Gutmann was appointed to the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board. She also is among the leaders of a select group of presidents of research universities from around the world who advise the U.N. Secretary General on a range of global issues, including academic freedom, mass migration, international development, and the social responsibilities of universities. Gutmann also serves on the Executive Committee of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Prior to her appointment as Penn’s President, Dr. Gutmann served as Provost at Princeton University, where she was also the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics. She was the founding Director of the University Center for Human Values, a multi-disciplinary center that sponsors teaching, scholarship and public discussion of ethics and human values. She served as Princeton’s Dean of the Faculty in 1995-97 and as Academic Advisor to the President in 1997-98.

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Ralph J. Hexter President, Hampshire College Ralph J. Hexter is president of Hampshire College. Hexter taught for a decade in Yale’s Classics Department before moving to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where, as Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, his primary administrative assignment was to direct the graduate program in comparative literature. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, soon becoming Dean of Arts and Humanities, and Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science – for four years the last two concurrently. President Hexter serves on the board of trustees of the Pacifi c School of Religion in Berkeley and the Christian Gauss Award Committee for Phi Beta Kappa, and has recently been appointed or elected to the Board of Advisors of the Center for Free Inquiry at Hanover College, the Professional Matters Committee of the American Philological Association, Phi Beta Kappa’s Council Nominating Committee and the National Conference for Community and Justice.

Robert M. Hollister Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University Robert M. Hollister is Dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Professor. Hollister has led planning and development of Tufts’ uniquely comprehensive approach to education for active citizenship from its beginning. Previously, Dr. Hollister was Dean of the Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. A specialist in citizen participation in public affairs, he has been engaged in teaching graduate and undergraduate students, practicing professionals, and citizens for over 30 years.

Lisa Hostein Editor, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Since 1994, Lisa Hostein has served as the editor of the JTA, the Global News Service of the Jewish People, an inter- national news agency providing news and feature stories of Jewish interest to publications and subscribers around the world. Hostein formerly served as news editor of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia. In addition to writing widely on issues facing the American Jewish community, she has traveled extensively, exploring and writing about Jewish com- munities all over the world, including those in Israel, Russia, Argentina, France, India, Romania, Turkey, Tunisia and the former Yugoslavia. Ms. Hostein has won numerous journalism awards, and was the recipient of the American Jewish Press Association’s Joseph Polakoff Award for Distinguished Service to Jewish Journalism.

Jackie Jenkins-Scott President, Wheelock College Jackie Jenkins-Scott is president of Wheelock College. From 1983 until 2004, Jenkins-Scott served as the President and Chief Executive Offi cer of the Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Dimock, she held several positions with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Departments of Public and Mental Health. Jenkins-Scott currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Boston Foundation, the Kennedy Library Foundation and Museum, the Boston Plan for Excellence, WGBH, the National Board of Jumpstart and the Council on Social Work Education. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Century Bank and Trust Company and the Tufts Health Plan. In April 2007, Boston’s Mayor Thomas M. Menino selected Jenkins-Scott to Co-Chair his School Readiness Action Planning Team, charged with developing specifi c strategies to prevent the achievement gap among the next generation of students.

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Richard M. Joel President, Yeshiva University Richard M. Joel is Yeshiva University’s fourth president. In assuming the leadership of one of the nation’s top academic research universities at his investiture, he put forth a vision that embraces time-honored values in a 21st century context. That includes his desire to ennoble YU students’ deepest human needs of intellectual curiosity and discovery, and to educate and enable them to care for others and contribute to society. President Joel’s success in revitalizing Jewish campus life and activism defi ned his 14 years as president and international director of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, where he greatly expanded programs, activities, and branches in the nation and around the world. President Joel was a Root-Tilden law scholar at New York University. He received an honorary doctoral degree from Boston Hebrew College. President Joel was an assistant district attorney in New York, an associate dean at YU’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and member of its faculty.

Laurel Price Jones Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, The George Washington University Laurel Price Jones is GW’s Vice President for Advancement. She has initiated a number of important efforts, including a review of advancement activity, the establishment of a Parents Fundraising Council, and development of two mini- campaigns, one to create a legacy fund for President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and another to develop scholarship support. Before coming to GW, Price Jones was vice president for development and alumni relations at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Price Jones was previously the managing director for development at University Hospi- tals of Cleveland, director of corporate and foundation relations for institutional advancement at the Cleveland Clinic, and director of corporate and foundation support at Oberlin College. As well as lecturing at conferences and colleges, Price Jones is committed to public service. She has served on the boards of the Hochstein School of Music in Rochester, the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra, and the Oberlin Chorister’s Ensemble, where she was board president.

Yvette M. Jones Chief Operating Offi cer and Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Tulane University Yvette M. Jones is Tulane University’s senior administrative offi cer responsible for all non-academic functions and externally-related activities at the university. She oversees the university’s $700 million fundraising campaign and all related development and alumni activities, as well as government relations, public relations, and university communica- tions. Ms. Jones also leads the university’s technology transfer and business development, strategic planning, and campus development efforts, and has responsibility for human resources and information technology and services. Ms. Jones serves as a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), among others. She is currently a facilitator for the Association of Governing Boards and has served as an evaluator of the Commission of Colleges of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. She is a member of the boards of Idea Village, the Greater New Orleans Biosciences District, America’s New Orleans Fund, Inc., the New Orleans Regional Medical Consortium, and the New Orleans BioInnovation Center.

Joseph S. Kanfer Chair of the Board of Trustees, United Jewish Communities ; Member, International Board of Governors, Hillel Joseph S. Kanfer is a member of Hillel’s International Board of Governors and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of United Jewish Communities. He is a past chair of both UJC’s Jewish Renaissance & Renewal Pillar and Nominating Committee and served as the Chair of the 2005 General Assembly. Among many positions in the federated system, he has served as Campaign Chair for Young Leadership of United Jewish Appeal and Chair of Community Services for the Council of Jewish Federations. He has a special interest in Jewish Education and is a past Chair of JESNA, the Jewish Education Service of North America, and past President of the Jerome Lippman Jewish Community Day School. He serves on the Board of Jewish Family and Life and the Covenant Foundation.

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Simon Klarfeld Executive Director, Columbia/Barnard Hillel Simon Klarfeld is the Executive Director of Columbia/Barnard Hillel. He has served as director of the Student and Academic Campaign for Soviet Jewry and executive director of San Francisco’s Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal. In 1996, he became founding director of Genesis at Brandeis University and an adjunct faculty member at Brandeis University’s Hornstein Program and Institute for Informal Jewish Education. Klarfeld then became Vice President of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, New York, responsible for projects relating to Jewish Peoplehood and Jewish Education. He has written on various themes including: anti-Semitism, Jewish youth and adolescence, the Jews of the Former Soviet Union, Israel and Jewish education and is currently writing a book entitled Jewish Sources and Perspectives on Leadership.

Peter A. Konwerski Assistant Vice President and Chief of Staff, Student and Academic Support Services, The George Washington University Peter A. Konwerski currently serves as Assistant Vice President and Chief of Staff for the Division of Student and Academic Support Services at The George Washington University. He also holds academic appointments in the GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development and the Sociology Department in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at GW. Konwerski brings nearly 20 years of experience working with Washington, DC-area education, non-profi t and government agencies, through various board, staff, and volunteer capacities, including as policy writer for the Corporation for National Service, where he helped write guidelines for Learn and Serve America funding, campus coordinator for the Partnership for Public Service, and with the Community Research and Learning (CORAL) Network.

Ken Kramarz Executive Campus Liaison, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Kramarz is a native Californian where he earned degrees at UCLA and the UCLA School of Law. He left the adversarial world of lawyering in favor of the non-profi t world of Jewish communal service, ultimately becoming Executive Director of Camp Tawonga, the resident camp of the San Francisco Jewish community. At Tawonga Kramarz facilitated the development of a wide variety of novel programs which engaged the broadest range of the community. He spent several years in the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue and helped launch the fi rst ever Turkish-Armenian Dialogue group. In addition to supervising Hillels throughout Northern California, Kramarz is lead trainer for the Inter- Congregational Emergency Response program of San Francisco Community Agencies Responding to Disaster.

Susan Kurtz Executive Director, Hillel at Virginia Tech Susan Kurtz, executive director of Hillel at Virginia Tech, graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City with a BFA in illustration, drawing and design. She completed her master’s in education at Adelphi University on Long Island, NY. She has spent time studying, traveling and living in Europe and Israel. As an artist, Ms. Kurtz’s work has been published in The New York Times, Readers Digest, and Sport Magazine. She held several leadership positions within the Jewish Community before being named executive director of Virginia Tech’s Hillel in 2004.

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Rabbi Susan Laemmle Dean of Religious Life, University of Southern California Rabbi Susan Laemmle has served as Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California since September 1996. Rabbi Laemmle was the fi rst person to fi ll the newly formulated, expanded Dean of Religious Life position. She came to this role after serving as Director of the Hillel Jewish Center at USC, and previous to that as the Hillel Director for Valley and Pierce Community Colleges. Rabbi Laemmle was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, in 1987. Rabbi Laemmle is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies, the Modern Language Association, ACURA (the Association for College & University Religious Affairs), the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. She lived in Israel from 1989-1992, working at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, on Kibbutz Yahel, and for the National Council for the Child (a New Israel Fund grantee).

Peter L. Laurence Founder and Executive Director, Education as Transformation, Inc. Peter Laurence, Ed.D. (Columbia University) is Executive Director of the Education as Transformation Project at Wellesley College and in that capacity is currently serving as grant administrator for a federally funded project on Changing Attitudes across Religious Communities: Developing Models for College Campuses. He has been a consultant to various national and international interfaith organizations for the past 20 years, has served as Chair of the Board of the North American Interfaith Network and as a member of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders for the Parliament of the World’s Religions (Chicago, 1993; Capetown, 1999). Dr. Laurence is co-editor of Education as Transformation: Religious Pluralism, Spirituality, and a New Vision for Higher Education in America (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000), and co-editor of the Peter Lang book series, Studies in Education and Spirituality. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Religion and Education Journal and the Journal of College and Character, and is a member of the Collaborative on Spirituality in Higher Education (CSHE).

Doug Lederman Co-Editor and Co-Founder, Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman is one co-editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed. With Scott Jaschik, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing daily news coverage, opinion pieces, blogs and other features. Doug has been a higher education journalist for more than 20 years, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, the Nieman Foundation Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, among others. He also speaks widely on the topic at conferences and on radio and television. Before helping to found Inside Higher Ed, Doug spent 17 years at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has won two National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association. Doug began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times.

Phyllis K. Leffl er Director, Institute for Public History and Professor in the Department of History, University of Virginia Phyllis K. Leffl er is the Director of the Institute for Public History and Professor in the Department of History at The University of Virginia. Her fi eld of interest is public history, and she publishes in the area of museum studies and institutional culture. She has been the president of Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville, Virginia, serves on the board of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, and has taught courses in Southern Jewish History and on Jewish Museums. In prior years, she served as an assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and was on the board of the Charlottesville Hillel.

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Peter Levine Director, CIRCLE: The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement Peter Levine is Director of CIRCLE: The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, in the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. He came to the University of Maryland in1993. In the late 1990s, he was Deputy Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal. He is a member of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium’s steering committee, a co-founder of the National Alliance for Civic Education, and former chair of the Executive Committee of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools. Levine is the author of The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens, three other scholarly books on philosophy and politics, and a novel. He also co-edited The Deliberative Democracy Handbook with John Gastil and co-organized the writing of “The Civic Mission of Schools,” a report released by Carnegie Corporation of New York and CIRCLE.

Jon A. Levisohn Assistant Professor of Jewish Education and, by courtesy, of Philosophy, Brandeis University Jon A. Levisohn is Assistant Professor of Jewish Education at Brandeis University and also serves as Assistant Academic Director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. As a philosopher of education, his work focuses on the varieties of interpretive experience, in order to illuminate the goals and processes of education, both Jewish and general. Recent publications include “Introducing the Contextual Orientation to Bible: A Comparative Study, ”Journal of Jewish Education 73:3 (2008), and “Community as a Means and an End in Jewish Education,” in Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities: A Reconsideration, A. Pomson and H. Dietcher, eds. (Littman Library, 2008). In January, he chaired a major conference on the teaching of rabbinic literature, bringing together leading academics with Jewish educators from across the denominational spectrum.

Harry Mairson Professor of Computer Science, Brandeis University Harry Mairson, a faculty member at Brandeis University since 1987, does research in logic and programming languages. He has also held research positions at the University of Marseille, the Ecole Normale Superieure, and Oxford University. Professor Mairson served as chair of the Brandeis Faculty Senate from 2005 to 2007. During that time, he was involved in addressing several issues related to the Summit theme: the university administration’s decision to remove an exhibit of drawings and biographies by Palestinian teenagers and the visit of President Jimmy Carter to Brandeis to discuss his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

Andrew Mangino Co-Founder, Scoop08 and Editor in Chief, Yale Daily News Andrew Mangino, co-founder of Scoop08, is a junior political science and history major at Yale University. He spends most of his time in New Haven as the editor in chief of the Yale Daily News, the oldest daily college newspaper; he was its politics reporter last year. He is also co-president of the Davenport Pops Orchestra and was a director of the Yale Daily News Summer Journalism Program. Mangino, who interned last summer at The New York Observer, graduated in 2005 as valedictorian from James Caldwell High School in West Caldwell, New Jersey. In high school, he served for three years as editor in chief of The Caldron, a nationally award-winning student newspaper.

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Beatrice S. Mandel Regent Emerita, University of California; Co-Chair, Summit 2008 Beatrice S. Mandel, a Co-Chair of the 2008 Summit, has held numerous distinguished positions in the California higher education system. Mandel is a Regent Emerita of the University of California and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the UCLA Foundation. She is currently the President of Woman and Philanthropy at UCLA. A graduate of UCLA, she was the fi rst woman president of the UCLA Alumni Association. She is also on the Board of Directors of The California Council on Economic Education. Mandel has also dedicated her time to enhancing Jewish life on campus. She is a past chair of the Los Angeles Hillel Council and also a former Vice Chair of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. She currently sits on the Hillel: FJCL Executive Committee and is chair of the Accreditation program.

Jenny Mandelbaum Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Rutgers University Jenny Mandelbaum has worked in higher education for more than 25 years. She has been on the faculty at Rutgers University for the past 20 years. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, where she served as Department Chair from 2003-2006. Dr. Mandelbaum teaches courses at all levels of the curriculum, from small freshman seminars and large (450-student) introductory courses, to graduate classes and supervision of doctoral students. She has won several teaching awards and grants, including the Rutgers University-wide Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research and teaching interests are in conversation analysis, language and social interaction, and relationships and identity.

Denise B. Maybank Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Services and Director of Student Life, Michigan State University Dr. Denise B. Maybank is the Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Services and Director of Student Life at Michigan State University. As a student advocate she supports student development, empowerment, academic success and responsibility throughout the campus community. As a keynote speaker and presenter, Dr. Maybank ad- dresses the issues currently facing youth, young adults and those who work in academic and child welfare settings. Her focus is on building quality relationships and aiding in the development of systems to prevent negative life outcomes for young people. As a diversity consultant she has worked with major corporations around the country. Dr. Maybank has held a variety of offi ces on boards of directors, councils, coalitions and committees through which she has had the opportunity to serve others.

Ruth W. Messinger President, American Jewish World Service Ruth W. Messinger is the president of American Jewish World Service, an international development organization providing support to 350 grassroots social change projects throughout the world. Prior to assuming this role in 1998, Ms. Messinger was in public service in New York City for 20 years. She is an active member of her synagogue and serves on the board of several not-for-profi t organizations. In honor of her tireless work to end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, Messinger received an award from the Jewish Council for Foreign Affairs in 2006. She was recently awarded honorary degrees by both Hebrew Union College (2005) and Hebrew College (2007). For the past seven years, she has been named one of the 50 most infl uential Jews of the year by the Forward.

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Susan Miller The Miller Family Foundation Susan Miller currently serves on the Board of the Council for Educational Change, a Florida non-profi t organization whose mission is to make systematic change in public education. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Dade County and has been a Campaign Cabinet Member of the United Way for over twenty years. She is the Chair of the United Way of Dade County’s Individual Leadership Gifts and a Past Government Relations Committee Member of the United Way’s Foster Care Program. She is Vice-President, Board Member, and Founding Board Member of the Children’s Foundation of Greater Miami, Inc. In May 2008, she will receive an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree from the University of Miami. Mrs. Miller was married to Leonard M. Miller, Chairman of the Board of Lennar Corporation, for 47 years.

Eric Mlyn Director, Duke Center for Civic Engagement/DukeEngage Eric Mlyn is the inaugural Director of the Duke Center for Civic Engagement/DukeEngage. Prior to this he served for nearly seven years as the Director of the Robertson Scholars Program, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor of International Studies at UNC-CH, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy at Duke. He taught Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1990-1998 and directed a set of new programs aimed at reinvigorating the undergraduate experience, including the Burch Field Research Seminar Program. He is the author of The State, Society, and Limited Nuclear War as well as numerous articles on national and international security. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota (1991) and his BA from Tufts University (1983).

Larry Moneta Vice President for Student Affairs, Duke University Larry Moneta serves as the Vice President for Student Affairs at Duke University. He joined the Duke community in 2001 after nearly 10 years at the University of Pennsylvania, most recently as Associate Vice President for Campus Ser- vices. Moneta holds adjunct faculty appointments at Duke in the Hart Leadership Program at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches in the Higher Education Executive Doctorate Program. He has written numerous publications, presents frequently at professional meetings and serves on a number of corporate boards.

Barry S. Myers Anderson-Rupp Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization, Director, Duke University Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization Dr. Myers has been a member of the Duke faculty in Biomedical Engineering since 1991. He is Senior Associate Dean for Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization in the Pratt School of Engineering where he facilitates technology transfer and industrial interaction, including serving as Project Director for the Coulter Translational Research Partnership. He is Director of Duke University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercializa- tion which is dedicated to creating applied, interdisciplinary classes and co-curricular activities that link the principles of management and education with faculty research innovation to promote research commercialization. Dr. Myers ran a biomechanics consulting fi rm for 13 years prior to becoming an Executive-in-Residence at Pappas Ventures, a bioventure capital fi rm, in 2004. He has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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Pamela S. Nadell Patrick Clendenen Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, American University Pamela S. Nadell is the Patrick Clendenen Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University, where she was also the 2007 Scholar/Teacher of the Year. Her publications include Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination, 1889-1985, which was a fi nalist for a National Jewish Book Award.

Kathy O’Byrne Director, UCLA Center for Community Learning Kathy O’Byrne is the Director of the UCLA Center for Community Learning, the undergraduate curricular arm of the Chancellor’s UCLA in LA Initiative. She chairs the Faculty Advisory Committee for the undergraduate minor in Civic Engagement, and teaches several service learning courses. Dr. O’Byrne provides ongoing training and professional development events; she also creates and maintains community partnerships for service learning courses, internships and community-based research. Dr. O’Byrne administers a variety of AmeriCorps programs and specialized programs for other undergraduate minors. In 2004, California Campus Compact presented her with the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education.

Robert M. O’Neil Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, University of Virginia; Director, Diffi cult Dialogues, The Ford Foundation; President Emeritus, University of Virginia; President Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Robert M. O’Neil became founding director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in August, 1990, after serving fi ve years as president of the University of Virginia. After serving as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., O’Neil began his teaching career in 1963 at the University of California Law School at Berkley, where he chaired the Academic Senate Committee on Academic Freedom. His administrative career began as provost of the University of Cincinnati. He was vice president of Indiana University for the Blooming- ton Campus, and later president of the statewide University of Wisconsin before coming to Virginia. He is currently director of the Ford Foundation’s Diffi cult Dialogues Initiative, and serves on the Board of Consulting Editors of Trusteeship, journal of the Association of Governing Boards. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the American Civil Liberties Union. He chaired Committee A (Academic Freedom and Tenure) of the American Associa- tion of University Professors from 1992-99. He currently chairs AAUP Special Committees on Academic Freedom and National Security in Time of Crisis and the Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans Universities.

Jill Piacitelli Executive Director, Break Away Currently the Executive Director of Break Away, Piacitelli works with students and staff from 150 college campuses who plan and carry out alternative breaks. These breaks, where students use school breaks to participate in week-long immersion volunteer projects for communities other than their own, have grown to involve over 41,000 students each spring. Her involvement with Break Away has spanned 10 years in various capacities as a conference and retreat facilitator, the National Program Director, lead on curriculum development, a member of the Board of Directors, and chair of the Programs Board. Jill has worked with college students engaged in service-learning and volunteerism for over 10 years. She has worked on two college campuses coordinating service-learning, encouraging both faculty/staff driven models of community work and student led initiatives.

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Jules Polonetsky Chief Privacy Offi cer and Senior Vice President for Consumer Advocacy, America Online Jules Polonetsky serves as Chief Privacy Offi cer and Senior Vice President of Consumer Advocacy at AOL. Prior to joining AOL in 2002, Polonetsky worked as DoubleClick’s Chief Privacy Offi cer and Special Counsel. He has also served as the NYC Consumer Affairs Commissioner for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, as a state legislator and a congressional staffer.

Chris Powers Director of Education Abroad Programs, Institute of International Education Chris Powers is the director of education abroad programs at the Institute of International Education. He oversees several international education programs, including the National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students. Prior to joining IIE, Mr. Powers served as director of special programs at NAFSA: Association of International Educators, where he managed a series of professional development programs for international educators and scholarship programs for international students. He has participated in or conducted international programs in Morocco, Korea, Japan, Cyprus, South Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and the United Kingdom.

Robert D. Putnam Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Goverment, Harvard University Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. He is also Visiting Professor and Director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester (UK). Professor Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world’s highest accolades for a political scientist. He has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. Putnam has written a dozen books, translated into seventeen languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community. He consults widely with national leaders, including U.S. Presidents Bush and Clinton, British Prime Ministers Blair and Brown, Ireland’s Bertie Ahern, and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi . He founded the Saguaro Seminar, bringing together leading thinkers and practitioners to develop actionable ideas for civic renewal.

Brodie Remington Vice President of University Relations, University of Maryland Brodie Remington has served as Vice President of University Relations at the University of Maryland since September 1999. He oversees fundraising, alumni relations, publications, media relations, marketing, and the University of Maryland College Park Foundation and its fi nancial management. During Remington’s tenure, the university has gone from raising approximately $73 million per year to more than $125 million per year. Remington currently provides leadership for Great Expectations, a $1 billion campaign that was publicly launched in October 2006. Remington was also responsible for the incorporation of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Remington held vice president positions at Trinity College (CT) and the University of Oregon. He has extensive experience in fund-raising campaigns, having successfully completed campaigns at Trinity, Oregon, and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the University of Maryland for a combined total in excess of $2.5 billion.

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Barbara Roswell Assistant Professor of English, Goucher College Barbara Roswell has been on the faculty at Goucher since 1983, where she has often incorporated service-learning into her courses in writing, linguistics and women’s studies. Barbara served as the founding Editor of Refl ections, a scholarly journal devoted to writing, service learning and community literacy, and is the author, with Gail Goldberg, of Reading, Writing, and Gender, a book that explores gender and children’s literacy. Barbara sits on the Goucher Hillel Council and is past president of Hillel of Greater Baltimore. Most recently, Barbara has been volunteer teaching at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, where she has been collaborating with a diverse group of community and univer- sity leaders to institute a college degree program at the prison.

Julian Sandler Chairman, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life; Member, Hillel International Board of Governors Julian Sandler is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Since 1994, Mr. Sandler has been actively involved with Hillel on locally and globally. Mr. Sandler served as Hillel’s Treasurer from 1998–2004, was chair of Hillel’s Strategic Planning Committee and was a member of the Management Committee for the Hillels of New York. In addition, he is a past president and an active member of the Dix Hills Jewish Center, a board member of the Fay J. Linder assisted living complex at the Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center and a member of the Rabbinical School Board of Overseers at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Among his local civic involvements, he is active in the Long Island Software and Technology Network (LISTnet), the Long Island Volunteer Effort (LIVE) and is a founding member of TechIsland Angels, a Long Island angel network. Mr. Sandler is the President and CEO of SmartSource Computer & AV Rentals, a leading provider of technology rentals of brand name computers and audio-visual products and peripherals.

Evan J. Segal Member, Hillel International Board of Governors; Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Evan J. Segal is a new member of Hillel’s Board of Directors, and a strong supporter of Pittsburgh Hillel. He was the President and Owner of Dormont Manufacturing Co., a leading manufacturer of fl exible stainless steel gas appliance connectors, and recently sold his business. He is active with numerous civic and community organizations, including the Pittsburgh Jewish Federation, serving as Chair of the Pittsburgh AIPAC Council, a member of the UJF Pittsburgh Management Committee and a board member at the Community Day School. Segal received both his BS and MBA from the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business, where he now serves as an Executive-In-Residence and advises new and start-up businesses. He is currently a member of the Wexner Heritage Program.

Morton Owen Schapiro President, Williams College Morton Owen Schapiro is President of Williams College. He previously served as a member of the Williams College faculty from 1980 to 1991, as Professor of Economics and as Assistant Provost. In 1991 he went to the University of Southern California where he served as Chair of the Department of Economics until 1994 and then as Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences until 2000. During his last two years as Dean, he also served as the University’s Vice President for Planning. Schapiro is among the nation’s premier authorities on the economics of higher education, with particular expertise in the area of college fi nancing and affordability, and on trends in educational costs and student aid. He is widely quoted in the national media and is regularly asked to testify before U.S. Senate and House com- mittees on economic and educational issues. Professor Schapiro has received research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the World Bank, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the College Board, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and other groups to study the economics of higher education and related topics.

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Lynn Schusterman Chair, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Co-Chair, Hillel’s International Board of Governors Lynn Schusterman is chair of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation headquartered in Tulsa with offi ces in Washington, DC. Through the Foundation as well as personal endeavors, she has become a world-renowned advocate for the Jewish community. Founded in 1987, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation is dedicated to advancing causes important to the Jewish people by supporting programs throughout the world that spread the joy of their culture, heritage, and values. She has been active in Jewish communal affairs for over 40 years and currently holds a variety of distinguished leadership positions in organizations such as the JDC Executive Committee, STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal), Hillel, the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. A leading philanthropist in the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, she is a founding member of the Birthright Israel Foundation and continues to serve on its board of direc- tors. In 2007, Lynn received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Donna E. Shalala President, University of Miami Donna E. Shalala is Professor of Political Science and President of the University of Miami. A leading scholar on the political economy of state and local governments, she has also held tenured professorships at Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She served as President of Hunter College of CUNY from 1980 to 1987 and as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993. In 1993 President Clinton appointed her U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) where she served for eight years. In 2007, President George W. Bush chose Shalala to co-chair the Commission on Care for Returning Wounded Warriors. Shalala also served in the Carter administration as Assistant Secretary for Public Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In addition to numerous other honors, President Shalala has been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations; National Academy of Education; the National Academy of Public Administration; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the National Academy of Social Insurance; the American Academy of Political and Social Science; and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bruce Sholk Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Bruce Sholk has been active in a variety of community roles in Baltimore. He was a founding board member of Hillel of Greater Baltimore, and served as its president. He is currently vice chairman of the Board of Directors of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. As an active member of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, Sholk sits on the Board of Directors, Governance Committee, Finance Committee and Capital Campaign Committee. He chaired the Israel and Overseas Committee and The Associated’s 2007 annual campaign, and currently chairs overall Financial Resource Development. He will serve as chairman of the Board starting in 2010. Sholk is a member of the Board of Directors of UJC and chairs the Operation Promise Allocations Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Sholk has spent the majority of his business career identifying emerging growth companies for investment. He is a co-founder of Axcel Partners and Greenspring Ventures, venture capital limited partnerships.

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Heather Smith Executive Director, Rock the Vote Heather Smith is the Executive Director of Rock the Vote. Prior to Rock the Vote, Smith founded and directed Young Voter Strategies, a nonpartisan project in partnership with The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, that provided the public, parties, candidates, consultants and nonprofi ts with data and research on the youth vote as well as best practices to effectively mobilize young people. In 2006, Smith and Young Voter Strategies coordinated the nation’s largest non-partisan project to register young voters using innovative and replicable methods of voter outreach. The project registered over 540,000 youth ages 18-30 and played a large role in the young voter turnout increase in 2006.

Julia Smith Community Outreach Coordinator, Idealist.org Julia Smith is a Community Outreach Coordinator at Idealist.org, a global organization and website which aims to help people translate their good intentions into action, perhaps best known for connecting thousands of people to nonprofi t jobs and internships each year. Based in Washington, DC, Smith spends her days blogging, podcasting, event planning and maintaining the resource center www.idealistoncampus.org. Prior to joining the team at Idealist, she worked with several nonprofi ts including The Goodman Theatre in Chicago; Global Youth Partnership for Africa in Uganda; and Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund. Smith was a theatre major at Washington University in St. Louis.

Rabbi Daniel Smokler Senior Jewish Educator, UCLA Hillel Rabbi Daniel Smokler currently works as UCLA Hillel’s Senior Jewish Educator, and has been a Jewish educator and community organizer for over 10 years. Dan began teaching in 1997 in the Jewish community of Cuba, working on behalf of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. That year, he founded Jews in the Woods, a quarterly interdenominational gathering for college students to join in Jewish study, fellowship and prayer. In 2001, Dan graduated cum laude from Yale University and immediately began working as a labor organizer for the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union. In 2004 he founded Organizational Solutions, a consulting group that designed and successfully executed the 2005-06 Writers Guild of America election and reorganization in Los Angeles and New York. In 2006, Dan was ordained an Orthodox rabbi by rabbinic authorities in Israel.

Saúl Sosnowski Associate Provost for International Affairs, University of Maryland at College Park Saúl Sosnowski has served as the Associate Provost for International Affairs at University of Maryland at College Park since 2000. In this capacity he leads the Offi ce of International Programs, which coordinates the university’s international partnerships, provides faculty travel grants, oversees services for international students and scholars, and sponsors international programs and events on campus. During his tenure at the University of Maryland, Dr. Sosnowski has served as a Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portu- guese (1979-2000) and Director of the Latin American Studies Center (which he founded in 1989). Over the years, he served on advisory boards for National Public Radio and the JCLAS (SSRC-ACLS), as a member on NEH, CIES and ACLS panels, and on several literary and cultural award committees. He is a Fulbright Senior Scholar (2003-2008).

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Stephen P. Steinberg Advisor to the President, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Stephen P. Steinberg is currently Advisor to the President at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1990, he has worked closely with Penn Presidents Sheldon Hackney, Claire Fagin, Judith Rodin, and Amy Gutmann as a writer and advisor on faculty and academic affairs, undergraduate education, campus issues and student conduct policies, free- dom of expression, and national educational and cultural issues. From 1996 to 2004, he served as Executive Director of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community. A Lecturer in Philosophy and in Communication, his teaching, research, and writing interests include the philosophy of nationalism and the role of ideology in ethno-po- litical confl ict; public discourse, culture, and community; phenomenology, existentialism and postmodernist thought; psychoanalysis; and contemporary issues in higher education. He is co-editor and a contributor to Public Discourse in America: Conversation and Community in the Twenty-First Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).

LeNorman J. Strong Assistant Vice President for Student and Academic Services, Cornell University LeNorman J. Strong currently serves as Assistant Vice President for Student and Academic Services at Cornell. Before coming to Cornell in 1998, he served as Assistant Vice President for Student and Academic Support Service and Adjunct Professor of Higher Education Administration at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University from 1987-1998. He was a co-founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Foundation; a founding member of the Washington, D.C. Regional Task Force on Bigotry; a participant in the “World of Difference” program of the Anti-Defamation League; Chair of the Multicultural Education Commission of the National Association for Campus Activities; and President of the Association of College Unions-International. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the United Way of Tompkins County, New York where he chairs the Youth and Philanthropy Committee.

Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit Executive Director, Hillel Foundation at Tufts University Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit is the Executive Director of the Hillel Foundation at Tufts University, where he also serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Music. He also holds appointments as Lecturer in the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literatures and as the University’s Jewish Chaplain. He is the author of The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship (Oxford University Press, 2000) and together with photojournalist Richard Sobol, is co-author of Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda (Abbeville Press, 2002). He is currently co-directing a project funded by the Department of Homeland Security establishing Muslim/Jewish/Christian dialogues and inter-religious education on fi ve university campuses. Rabbi Summit was awarded B’nai B’rith’s Jacob Burns Prize for the Promotion of Ethics on Campus. He has also received the Benjamin J. Shevach Memorial Award for distinguished achievement in Jewish educational leadership. Rabbi Summit is past-president of the National Hillel Professional Association.

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Stephen Joel Trachtenberg President Emeritus & University Professor of Public Service, The George Washington University Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was the 15th president of The George Washington University. He served GW from 1988 to 2007. Trachtenberg was previously president and professor of law and public administration at the University of Hartford. Prior to that, he was at Boston University as Dean of Arts and Sciences and Vice President. During the Johnson Administration, he served as secretary for a White House Task Force on Education. Trachtenberg was also special assistant to the U.S. Education Commissioner, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Preceding his academic career, he was an attorney in the New York offi ce of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and an aide to a U.S. Congressman. Recognitions for his contributions to education include 15 honorary degrees, most recently from Columbia University. Trachtenberg is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a clinical senior client partner at Korn/Ferry International where he helps to identify leadership for institutions of higher education.

Elizabeth Traubman Co-Founder, Jewish/ Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Elizabeth “Libby” Traubman is a retired clinical social worker. In 1982, she was a founding member of the Beyond War Movement, now Foundation for Global Community. In 1991, she helped organize the Beyond War conference for Israeli and Palestinian citizen-leaders which resulted in a historic signed document, FRAMEWORK FOR A PUBLIC PEACE PROCESS. Traubman then co-founded the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo. 15 year-years-old in early 2008 and preparing for its 189th meeting, this group has inspired dozens of other Dialogues to begin and continue. She is a Trustee of the Foundation for Global Community, and in 1994 was inducted into the San Mateo County Women’s Hall of Fame.

Lionel Traubman Co-Founder, Jewish/ Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Lionel “Len” Traubman retired in 2000 from his practice of dentistry for children in San Francisco. He is a former Director of the San Francisco Dental Society, and was editor of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and of the California Society of Dentistry for Children. For 25 years, Traubman has published on war and peace from personal ex- perience with Russians and Americans, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, and Jews and Palestinians. He and his wife, Libby, conceived and co-produced two 2007 documentary fi lms - PEACEMAKERS: Palestinians & Jews Together at Camp, and DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH, and created the accompanying TEACHER’S GUIDE freely downloaded on the Internet.

Ilan Troen Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, Brandeis University Ilan Troen is Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and holds the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies at Brandeis University. In Israel, he has served as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University and as Director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute and Archives, Sde Boker. He has authored or edited numerous books in American, Jewish and Israeli history. His most recent books are Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement and, with Jacob Lassner, Jews and Muslims in Arab Lands; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined. He is also the founding editor of Israel Studies (Indiana University Press).

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Diana Chapman Walsh President Emerita, Wellesley College Diana Chapman Walsh was the twelfth President of Wellesley College, from 1993 to 2007, and the fourth alumna to head Wellesley. During her tenure, the college undertook a number of successful educational initiatives, including expanded programs in global education and service learning. Before assuming the Wellesley presidency, Dr. Walsh was Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she chaired the Department of Health and Social Behavior. Walsh currently serves on the boards of Amherst College and the State Street Corporation and as a member of the MIT Corporation. She chaired the board of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Phi Beta Kappa.

David Ward President, American Council on Education; Chancellor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison A leading spokesperson for American higher education, David Ward is the 11th president of ACE. Ward is chancellor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to becoming chancellor at UW-Madison, Ward also served as associate dean of the graduate school from 1980 to 1987 and as vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost from 1989 to 1993. He also has chaired the Government Relations Council of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and served on the Committee on Undergraduate Education of the Association of American Universities, the Science Coalition, and the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities. As president of ACE, he has been appointed to the Council of the United Nations University and to the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, convened by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Kathleen Maas Weigert Executive Director, Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University Kathleen Maas Weigert is the Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University, a Center created in January 2001 when Dr. Maas Weigert joined the university as the fi rst director. She is a Research Professor in both the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Program on Justice & Peace. Prior to coming to Georgetown, she held a variety of positions at the University of Notre Dame, including Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Research at the Center for Social Concerns, Concurrent Associate Profes- sor in American Studies, and Fellow in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. In 1997 the national Peace Studies Association gave her its award “in recognition of her steadfast commitment to the development of Peace Studies.” She was one of the ten fi nalists selected for the national Campus Compact’s 1999 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. She serves on the boards of CARA (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate), Washington D.C.’s Perry School Community Services, Inc., and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University, New Orleans.

Aaron Weil Executive Director, Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh Aaron Weil, executive director of Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh, arrived on campus in June 2003 after spending the previous decade in Israel, where he was a media and marketing strategist. Weil also acted as a Communications Advisor for former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Natan Sharansky’s Yisrael B’Aliyah Party, during the 2003 elections. Prior to this, he was co-founder and CEO of Coast 2 Coast Communications, an Israeli public relations and marketing fi rm for high tech start-ups and political mobilization. Weil was a Captain (Res.) in the Israel Defense Forces and served in the IDF Spokesperson unit dealing directly with the foreign press. Weil has worked on Capitol Hill for both AIPAC as well as the UJC’s Washington Action Offi ce.

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Rabbi Melissa Weintraub Co-Founder and North American Director, Encounter Rabbi Melissa Weintraub is the co-founder and North American Director of Encounter, an educational organization dedicated to providing Jewish Diaspora leaders from across the religious and political spectrum with exposure to Palestinian life. An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program, Weintraub was ordained as a Conservative Rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary and currently represents the Seminary as a Rabbinic Fellow in Conservative communities throughout the country. She has also served as Director of Education and Outreach at Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, where she authored several articles treating the subjects of human dignity, war ethics, and human rights in Jewish sources. Weintraub has lectured and taught on Jewish theology, mysticism, and ethics in an array of conferences, synagogues, and adult education settings throughout North America, including the Parliament of World Religions, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Elat Chayyim Jewish Retreat Center. She has served as a prison chaplain in Indiana and is a veteran of Jewish-Muslim and Israeli-Palestinian people-to-people initiatives. Recipient of a grant from the Samuel Ruben Foundation, Weintraub is currently working on a book exploring Jewish religious responses to terror.

Rev. Gloria Elaine White-Hammond, M.D. Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church; Board of Trustees, Tufts University Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. is the Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston, MA, and a pediatrician at the South End Community Health. She also has a long history of involvement in community service. She is the founder of and consultant to the church-based creative writing/mentoring ministry called “Do The Write Thing” for high-risk black adolescent females. Rev. White-Hammond is Co-Convener of The Red Tent Group with Rabbi Elaine Zecher of Temple Israel, which brings together Christian women and Jewish women for Torah/Bible study. In 2002 Dr. White-Hammond’s co-founded My Sister’s Keeper, a humanitarian women’s group that partners with women of Sudan in their efforts toward reconciliation and reconstruction of their communities. In February 2005, Dr. White-Hammond traveled into Darfur to listen and learn from female victims of genocide in Internally Displaced Persons camps. She recently served as the National Chairperson of the Million Voices for Darfur campaign and is the Co-Founder of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur. Rev. White-Hammond is a member of the Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Board of Overseers for the Tufts University College for Community and Public Service and the Board of Christian Solidarity International (Zurich).

John W. Whitehead President, The Rutherford Institute John W. Whitehead’s concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofi t legal and educational organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Va. Deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people, The Rutherford Institute has emerged as a prominent leader in the national dialogue on civil liberties and human rights and a formidable champion of the Constitution. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s most vocal and involved civil liberties attorneys, Whitehead’s approach to civil liberties issues has earned him numerous accolades and accomplishments, including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom. Whitehead has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law, human rights and popular culture. Whitehead’s weekly newspaper commentaries, distributed to daily and weekly newspapers across the country and published on a regular basis, take the pulse of the nation, of what’s happening and what’s news.

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Ralph Williams Professor of English, Language and Literature, University of Michigan Ralph Williams is a Professor in the Department of English, Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He has studied 15 languages including Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, and uses Italian, French, and Latin, especially frequently. He specializes in Medieval and Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, literary theory, comparative literature and Biblical studies. He has taught such wide-ranging courses as The Bible in English, plus the literature of Chaucer to Frederick Douglass, to the works of Primo Levi and the Memory of Auschwitz. Professor Williams was Associate Chair of the Department of English (for the second time) from 1999 to 2002. He also served from 1996 to 1999 as Director of the Program on Studies in Religion. While Associate Chair of the English Department, he was instrumental in creating and developing the Royal Shakespeare Company Residency program at the University of Michigan.

Ruth R. Wisse Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Ruth R. Wisse is Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Before that she taught at McGill University where she helped to found the Jewish Studies Department. She has written several books on literature, including The Schlemiel as Modern Hero, A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets, and The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Literature and Culture, and two political studies-- If I Am Not for Myself: the Liberal Betrayal of the Jews and Jews and Power (2007).

Judy Woodruff Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. Most recently, she signed on as a senior correspondent and 2008 political editor for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. In early 2007, Woodruff concluded initial reporting and production, along with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, on Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard. In addition, she anchors a monthly program for Bloomberg Television, “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.” Through fall 2006, Woodruff was a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, teaching a weekly seminar course on media and politics. In the fall of 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women’s Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in communication industries worldwide. She serves on the boards of trustee of the Freedom Forum and Global Rights: Partners for Justice and in 2005 became a member of The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and the Board of the National Museum of American History. Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, where she is a trustee emerita.

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Robert H. Abzug Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Director of the new Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin Robert H. Abzug is Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Director of the new Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Abzug’s scholarship has explored the formation of social and moral consciousness in American culture in various settings. He is the author of Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform (1980), Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (1985), Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994), and America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (1999). He is currently completing a biography of the psychologist, Rollo May, which explores the interpenetration of religion and psychotherapy in American society. Abzug has also consulted on numerous documentary fi lms, the latest of which is Borrowing Time (2006), the portrait of an American Holocaust survivor.

Terri Susan Fine Professor of Political Science, University of Central Florida Dr. Terri Susan Fine is professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. She serves on the Central Florida Hillel Board of Directors, and is the founder and chair of the Jewish faculty and staff inter- est group at the university. Her research and teaching interests include American politics with an emphasis on political participation and political communication. She is particularly interested in how minorities, including women, Jews, African-Americans and young people, fi nd entry points into the political process. She is the recipient of a research grant from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the Study of Gender and Judaism in which she is exploring how Jewish female state legislators function in the majoritarian arenas of electoral and legislative politics. Fine completed the Summer Institute for Israel Studies at Brandeis University in 2006, and is the recipient of both research and travel grants from the Florida-Israel Institute.

Adina Friedman Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and Confl ict Analysis & Resolution, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University Adina Friedman is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and Confl ict Analysis & Resolution at the Elliott School of International Affairs. She holds a PhD from the Institute for Confl ict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, an MA in Middle East History from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and an MS in Peace & Development Research from Goteborg University, Sweden. She has taught at a number of universities, including George Mason University, University for Peace in Costa Rica, Eastern Mennonite University, American University, and at the Middle East Institute. Friedman has worked on Arab-Israeli projects in the Middle East and in the US, in the fi elds of refugees, culture and education, environment, and co-existence. Along with Palestinian colleagues, she runs workshops and other confl ict resolution activities for Arabs, Israelis and Americans in on- and off-campus settings. She is also Faculty Advisor to and co-facilitator of the Middle East Peace Group at GW.

Victoria G. Harrison Coordinator of Jewish Studies, San Jose State University Dr. Vicki Harrison is Coordinator of Jewish Studies at San Jose State University, and she currently teaches one course each term in the Jewish Studies Program. She is also advisor to the Jewish Student Union and 60

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board member of Hillel of Silicon Valley. Before coming to SJSU, she chaired the English department at Kehillah Jewish High School, where she taught for four years. Before coming to SJSU, Harrison was Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, where she taught and directed doctoral theses in the areas of American, women’s and Jewish literatures.

Reverend Susan Henry-Crowe Chaplain, Emory University A United Methodist minister since 1974, Rev. Henry-Crowe has served as a pastor, an administrator of the South Carolina United Methodist Council on Ministries, and Chaplain to Emory University since 1991. Rev. Henry-Crowe has served on the nine member Judicial Council and the ecclesiastical court of the United Methodist Church. Rev. Henry-Crowe recently served as a member of the Assembly Worship Committee for the February 2006 Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Rev. Henry-Crowe served on the Board of Trustees for Clafl in University, and presently serves on the Boards of Santiago College and Columbia College. In 1995 Rev. Henry-Crowe was awarded the Candler School of Theology Alumni/Alumnae Award. As Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life, a key aspect of her work at Emory has been to foster inter- religious dialogue in the ever-changing world of religious pluralism.

Manuel London Faculty Director, Undergraduate College of Leadership & Service, Associate Dean of the College of Business, Director of the Center for Human Resource Management, and Professor of Management and Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Manuel London is Faculty Director of the Undergraduate College of Leadership & Service, Associate Dean of the College of Business, Director of the Center for Human Resource Management, and Professor of Management and Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He taught at the University of Illinois at Champaign before moving to AT&T as a researcher and human resource manager. He joined Stony Brook 19 years ago. He is a member of the Hillel Board and has served as its president. He has written extensively on the topics of 360-degree feedback, continuous learning, career dynamics, and management development. Two recent books are First Time Leaders of Small Groups: How to Create High-Performing Committees, Task Forces, Clubs, and Boards (co-authored with Marilyn London, published by Jossey-Bass, 2007) and Continuous Learning: Individual, Group, and Organizational Perspectives (co-authored by Valerie Sessa, published by Erlbaum, 2006).

Alex Lubet Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota Alex Lubet is the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota faculty. A charter member of the University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers, he is the only School of Music faculty member, the only Twin Cities campus arts faculty member, and the only artist to have received that honor. Lubet has had a career-long interest in encounters between cultures. His most recent projects have been in collaboration with artists from around the world. They include Iris of Light, for koto ensemble; Alyssa in Bali, for gamelan; And the Walls Come Tumbling Down, a dance-drama chronicling relations between African- and Jewish-Americans; The Wise Men of Chelm, a klezmer musical for children. He directs and performs in Blended Cultures Orchestra, a professional multicultural improvisation ensemble.

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Daniel R. Mandell Associate Professor of History, Truman State University Daniel R. Mandell is Associate Professor of History at Truman State University, Missouri, where he teaches early American and Native American history. After taking part in Young Judaea’s Year Course in 1974-1975, he earned a B.A. from Humboldt State University in California, a Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia, and an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University. Mandell is the author of fi ve books and many articles on Indians in New England, including Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880. He helped organize Hillel at Truman in 2000, and since has served as faculty advisor. Mandell works to recruit Jewish students to Truman, to bring in outside speakers and other resources, and in other ways works to establish a prominent Jewish presence at Truman. He also serves on the Missouri Commission for Holocaust Education and Awareness.

Sharon Oster Assistant Professor of American literature, University of Redlands Sharon Oster is Assistant Professor of American literature at the University of Redlands, where she is also the Hillel Faculty Advisor. Her scholarly interests include American Jewish literature, literature of the Holocaust, immigrant literature, and literature of the 1960s; critical race theory, cosmopolitanism and diasporic studies, ethics, and aesthetics. Her published essays include “‘The Erotics of Auschwitz’: Coming of Age in The Painted Bird and Sophie’s Choice,” in Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust, ed. Donals and Glejzer (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), and “The Shop of Curiosities: Henry James, ‘the Jew,’ and the Production of Value,” forthcoming in English Literary History. The latter is part of a larger book project she is currently completing on Jewishness, nostalgia, and value, in turn-of-the- twentieth century urban American literature.

Elinor Rosenfi eld Associate Dean for Student and Academic Services, National Technical Institute for the Deaf Ellie Rosenfi eld serves as the Associate Dean for Student and Academic Services at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, one of the colleges of the Rochester Institute of Technology. With more than 30 years of experience serving deaf and hard-of-hearing students in various capacities at RIT, Dr. Rosenfi eld focuses her energies on promoting student success. She earned her B.S. in elementary education from Ohio State University, an M.Ed. in College Student Personnel and Counseling from Indiana University, and an Ed.D. in higher education from the University of Rochester. Dr. Rosenfi eld has served on the HORAC board and traveled with a group of deaf and hearing students on a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip.

Martin B. Shichtman Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University Martin B. Shichtman is Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches medieval literature and Jewish studies. He is co-editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Cornell University Press, 1987) and Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend (State University of New York Press, 1994). He is co-author of King Arthur and the Myth of History (University of Florida Press, 2004). His most recent project is Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film. Shichtman has directed two National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminars for School Teachers and an NEH Focus Grant. He has been a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at the Brandeis 62

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Summer Institute for Israel Studies. Among the Jewish studies courses Shichtman teaches are “Culture and the Holocaust,” “Jewish-American Literature,” and “Fantasies of the Holy Land.” He is currently working toward the creation of a Jewish studies program at EMU.

Fae Silverman Hillel Advisor and Associate Jewish Chaplain, University of Southern Maine Fae Silverman is the fi rst Hillel Advisor and Associate Jewish Chaplain at the University of Southern Maine. She holds a B.A. in Human Ecology and is a nationally certifi ed Sign Language interpreter. Fae provides Jewish programming, incorporates Judaism into cross-cultural curricula within the greater collegiate community, and contributes a Jewish perspective in interfaith dialogues. Activities she has led include organizing a Sukkot barbecue in cooperation with the Chabad of Maine, initiating a Hanukah/ Anti-Semitism discussion co-sponsored by Residential Life (in response to an incident of anti-Semitic graffi ti), and planning for an upcoming Passover Seder co-funded by the Episcopal Chaplaincy. Working closely in interfaith circles and pulling from a variety of Jewish resources, Fae develops and implements innovative programming for seven campuses. Continuing Jewish involvement in the community, she founded and currently runs a young Jewish social network, “Mah Atah M’Chapes” for the Greater Portland Area.

Norman A. Stillman Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History, University of Oklahoma Norman A. Stillman is the Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma who focuses on the history and culture of the Islamic world and on Sephardi and Oriental Jewry. His books include The Jews of Arab Lands: a History and Source Book (1979), Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity (1995), and in collaboration with his late colleague/wife Yedida Kalfon Stillman, Arab Dress: a Short History (2000). He is currently the Executive Editor of the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World in preparation with Brill Academic Publishers. He has received numerous academic honors including: Phi Beta Kappa, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and he delivered the Momigliano Lectures for the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and the Sherman Lectures for the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He was the recipient of Ohio State University Melton Center’s Distinguished Humanist award in the spring of 2000.

Ilan Troen Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, Brandeis University Ilan Troen is Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and holds the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies at Brandeis University. In Israel, he has served as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University and as Director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute and Archives, Sde Boker. He has authored or edited numerous books in American, Jewish and Israeli history. His most recent books are Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement and, with Jacob Lassner, Jews and Muslims in Arab Lands; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined. He is also the founding editor of Israel Studies (Indiana University Press).

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Philip H. and Susan Rudd Cohen Student Exemplar of Excellence Awards

The Philip H. and Susan Rudd Cohen Student Exemplar Awards are presented each year to Hillel students who exemplify leadership on campus and within the community and help advance Hillel’s mission to enrich the lives of Jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. This year’s Exemplars come from a variety of schools and backgrounds and through their commitment to Hillel and the Jewish community have become role models for leadership and have strategically and successfully made a signifi cant impact on other students and the community at large. The 2008 Philip H. and Susan Rudd Cohen Student Exemplars of Excellence are:

Liz Cohen, University of Kansas Throughout her four years at KU, Liz has been an integral part of Hillel’s leadership, including serving as president of the student board. Early in her involvement, Liz realized that the leadership structure was not effective at engaging a large number of students. She took it upon herself to redesign the leadership structure to provide more meaning- ful leadership opportunities to more students. As part of the process, Liz traveled to Hillels around the country to interview staff and student leaders about their leadership structures and engaged dozens of her peers in discussions about what they waned out of Jewish life at KU. The end product was a decentralized student leadership structure that in turn helped transform the KU Jewish student community into multiple social networks throughout campus. Liz also represented KU Hillel on KU’s President’s Council, allowing her to develop strong ties with student leaders from all over campus.

Matt Cohen, Tufts University Matt got involved with Tufts University Hillel Foundation at the end of his freshman year through Holocaust Commemoration week, in which he helped plan several programs for the week including a very successful evening with a Holocaust survivor. Although the stakes were high and it was his fi rst major involvement with Hillel, Matt took on the challenge because he felt it was too important of a topic to not get involved. Social justice has been the focus of Matt’s involvement with Hillel, as he as been an active member and chair of the social action committee and an integral part of the Moral Voices initiative, a year-long social justice initiative based on a pertinent issue facing the community. Matt has dedicated countless hours to researching this year’s Moral Voices theme, economic justice, and developing an after-school program for the immigrant youth of the local community in Somerville. This program exemplifi es Hillel’s mission of enriching the Jewish people and the world as it benefi ts the local underprivileged community and involves numerous other Jewish students from Tufts as volunteers. Although Matt is graduating this year, he has made plans to ensure the sustainability of this valuable community program by identifying students to take over the project next year.

Fernando Farji, Hillel Argentina For many years, Fernando has been an active participant in Hillel Argentina and currently serves as the coordinator of Hillel Argentina’s Israel Advocacy Group. His continuous contributions have helped increase participation in numerous programs that he plans, including Shabbat dinners, seminars and conferences. Fernando participates regularly in the Hillel Argentina Conversation Club which helps students improve their English speaking skills through movies, theater and regular conversations which he helps to organize. After participating in the 2007-2008 Charles Schusterman International Student Leaders Assembly, Fernando has been working with the Hillel Argentina staff to develop experiential education programs for student participants.

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Elizabeth Leiwant, Bowdoin College A senior at Bowdoin College, Liz has been actively involved in Hillel throughout her college career and currently serves as the president of Bowdoin College Hillel. When Liz fi rst arrived at Bowdoin College, it was the fi rst year that the college had an offi cial Hillel. Although there had been a Jewish Student Organization at Bowdoin previously, the range of activities was modest. Liz took the initiative to institute weekly Shabbat candle-lighting services, which at fi rst had only a minimal turnout. Four years later, Shabbat candle-lighting at Bowdoin Hillel happens every week with great turnouts, music and a student-compiled prayer book. During her sophomore year, Liz was one of the driving forces be- hind Bowdoin College Hillel’s participation in the Soref Advancement Initiative, which was designed to assist campuses with small Jewish student populations take their Hillel to the next level. Liz was instrumental in the application process as one of the student authors of the grant proposal and during the following year, worked tirelessly to implement the initiatives outlined in the proposal.

Jonathan Newcombe, Hunter College Jonathan has been the student president of Hillel at Hunter College for three years. Throughout this time, he has served as an advocate for Hillel at Hunter College both to the Hillel Board of Directors and to other organizations on campus. At a time when Jonathan felt that Hillel at Hunter College was not reaching its potential, he proceeded to write an independent study paper on the culture of Hillel at Hunter College and the potential positive impact that a strong Hillel could have on Jewish student life on the Hunter campus. He fought tirelessly to garner the necessary support to create a well-staffed Hillel that could meet the specifi c needs of the Hunter Jewish community and his efforts proved a success. As an active member in both Hillel and the Hunter College Student Government, Jonathan has played a pivotal role in facilitating and participating in activities that link Hillel and the university, including the dialogue between Hillel and the Palestinian Club. Jonathan has been a consummate diplomat and has shown great strength in trying to intelligently create peaceful solutions to volatile situations in an ethnically charged environment.

Allison Rose, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Throughout her four years at UNC, Allison has created three initiatives that continue to transform the lives of those in the Chapel Hill community. As a freshman, Alli created a women’s safety and empowerment initiative called Project Dinah, which strives to equip women with the knowledge and tools necessary to increase awareness of women’s issues at the university and at large. Through providing opportunities for women to learn important skills such as self-defense and verbal assertiveness, distributing safety whistles and organizing the annual “Take Back the Night” event, Project Dinah has become a vital part of the campus community, improving women’s lives at UNC. As a senior and North Carolina Hillel’s Executive Vice President, Alli has created two additional initiatives that have become cornerstones of North Carolina Hillel. “One Book, One People” is an intergenerational book club where college students and senior adults read and discuss Jewish books. Alli has also dedicated countless hours to the “Southern Jewish Initiative” which will not even be happening on campus until after Alli graduates.

Ari Stern, American University, Washington College of Law As a law student, Ari has taken on the challenge of enriching the lives of Jewish graduate students. Throughout his three years at American University’s Washington College of Law, Ari has become an active member in the Israel and Law society, increasing the size of its executive board from one member to 16 and more than quadrupling the general membership numbers, as well as making a continuous effort to co-sponsor every Israel and Law society event with other student groups on campus. On the national level, Ari has been working tirelessly to bring the National Jewish Law Students Association (NJLSA) to a new level. Through drafting an NJLSA Constitution, a strategic plan and by-laws, Ari has helped breathe new life into NJLSA and is working towards making it a more sustainable organization with long-term goals and objectives. Additionally, Ari sits on the AU Hillel Board of Directors, using his experience and passion to help support Jewish life on campus for undergraduates.

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Directions from the Renaissance Hotel to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art

The museum is a short, easy, two-block walk from the hotel.

Take left from hotel’s Ninth Street entrance and walk two blocks to G Street.

The Smithsonian Museum of American Art is located on the corner of Ninth and G streets. Enter the building through the G Street entrance.

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Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Since 1923, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life has contributed to the success of the Jewish community by creating welcoming campus environments in which Jewish students can pursue the dream of higher education. Today, Hillel is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world.

WHAT IS HILLEL’S VISION? for meaning in their lives and are in danger of assimilating into the community around them. Hillel seeks to inspire every Jewish student to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life. HOW IS HILLEL STRUCTURED?

WHAT IS HILLEL’S MISSION? Any Jewish student may participate in Hillel – no membership is required. Hillel is proud to support Hillel’s mission is to enrich the lives of Jewish 251 affi liated Foundations, Program Centers and undergraduate and graduate students so that they Jewish Student Organizations that serve students may enrich the Jewish people and the world. at 513 campuses throughout the United States and Canada. Hillel foundations are also located in Israel, South America, and the republics of the WHAT ARE HILLEL’S VALUES? former Soviet Union. Hillel affi liates are found in Australia and the United Kingdom. Hillel’s Charles Hillel pursues its mission by: Creating a pluralistic, and Lynn Schusterman International Center helps welcoming and inclusive environment; Fostering local groups in the areas of institutional advance- student growth and the balance in being ment, strategic planning, leadership development, distinctively Jewish and universally human; fundraising, human resources, fi scal administration, pursuing tzedek (social justice), tikkun olam student programming and communications. Hillel (repairing the world) and Jewish learning; ensures high operating standards through ongoing supporting Israel and global Jewish peoplehood; review, consultation and accreditation. Hillel’s a commitment to excellence, innovation, estimated annual budget for all international accountability and results. operations is $66 million. Hillel is a recipient of funds from the National Federation/Agency Alliance through its supporting federations and WHY IS HILLEL IMPORTANT TO United Jewish Communities. THE JEWISH COMMUNITY?

It is estimated that 85 percent of college-age Jews WHO ARE HILLEL’S LEADERS? – approximately 350,000 individuals – attend some form of institution of higher education every year. Hillel is supported by individual benefactors and The Jewish community believes that the college foundations, as well as by Jewish federations and years offer the last opportunity to provide Jewish international organizations. The Hillel Board of content to young people before they disperse to Directors, chaired by Julian Sandler of Dix Hills, the working world. Most of these students know New York, sets Hillel policy. Members of the board little of their Jewish heritage. Hillel provides Jewish include volunteer and student leaders from North content at a time when young people are searching America and abroad. The Hillel International

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Board of Governors provides counsel to the Board l The Hillel International Professional Staff of Directors. The chairman of the Board of Conference, held annually, is designed to sharpen Governors is Edgar M. Bronfman of New York, NY, the skills of Hillel staff and advisors from affi liated and co-chairs are Lynn Schusterman of Tulsa, OK, campuses. and Michael Steinhardt of New York, NY. Wayne L. Firestone is president. l Weinberg Tzedek Hillel transforms Hillel Foundations and their communities by helping students to pursue social justice. WHAT ARE SOME MAJOR HILLEL INITIATIVES? l The Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative, a partnership with Birthright Israel Foundation l www.hillel.org is a window into the world of and an anonymous donor of the Jewish Funders Hillel that provides information about current Network, engages student interns to build relation- Hillel activities, local Hillel contacts, and Hillel ships with thousands of uninvolved Jewish students, resources. including many Taglit-Birthright Israel participants, creating successful follow-through and connecting l Taglit-Birthright Israel: Hillel program, made them to Jewish life. possible by Taglit-Birthright Israel, provides a free, ten-day, campus-based trip to Israel for thousands l The Summit on the University and the Jewish of Jewish students, ages 18-26, who have never Community is a biennial conference that convenes been to the country on a group tour. Taglit- leading thinkers and practitioners in academia, Birthright Israel is a collaboration of journalism, philanthropy and the Jewish community philanthropists, Jewish federations and the to discuss partnerships that develop future leaders State of Israel. and strengthen our communities.

l The Israel on Campus Coalition, a partnership For more information, contact the Hillel Communications with the Schusterman Family Foundation, brings Department at (202) 449-6537 or visit www.hillel.org. together over 30 Jewish organizations committed to Israel advocacy on campus.

l The Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Learning provides Jewish resources and staff training to enhance the work of campus Hillels in providing meaningful Jewish experiences and learning for students.

l The Soref Initiative for Emerging Campuses provides support for Jewish student programs on campuses with small Jewish populations and without a full-time Hillel professional.

l Hillel’s Charles Schusterman International Student Leaders Assembly convenes Jewish student leaders from around the world each year to build leadership skills and Jewish knowledge.

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OFFICERS Thomas Blumberg, New York, NY Norman Lipoff, Miami, FL Michelle Blumenberg, Hillel at the Deborah Lipstadt, Atlanta, GA Julian Sandler, University of Arizona Mort Lowenthal, Stamford, CT Chairman, Dix Hills, NY Gil Bonwitt, Miami, FL Beatrice Mandel, Los Angeles, CA Amy A.B. Bressman, Joshua Borenstein, New York University Fred Margulies, Chicago, IL Vice-Chair, New York, NY Phillip Brodsky, Indianapolis, IN Edward Marlowe, Delray Beach, FL David M. Cohen, Edward E. A. Bromberg, Boston, MA Karen Moss, Columbus, OH Vice-Chair, New York, NY Sandra Cahn, New York, NY Stephen Oppenheimer, Atlanta, GA Jonathan Fluger, Paul Cherner, Chicago, IL Julie Wise Oreck, New Orleans, LA Vice-Chair, Princeton University Joseph Ciechanover, Tel Aviv, Israel Joseph Paperman, Montreal, QC Stephen M. Greenberg, Bruce Coane, Houston, TX Sidney Pertnoy, Miami, FL Vice-Chair, New York, NY Philip Cohen, Miami, FL Brette Peyton, New York, NY Lee M. Hendler, Andrew Coonin, University of North Sarah Rapoport, Brown University Vice-Chair, Baltimore, MD Carolina at Chapel Hill Dana Raucher, New York, NY Bruce Sholk, Hannah Crummé, Pomona College Michele Rosen, Seattle, WA Vice-Chair, Baltimore, MD Marcelo Cynovich, Montevideo, Keith Rosenbloom, New York, NY James Shane, Uruguay Lyon Roth, New York, NY Treasurer, Boston, MA Lee Dranikoff, Short Hills, NJ Lenore Ruben, New York, NY Diane Wohl, Barry Effron, White Plains, NY Sarah Ruben, Stanford University Secretary, Mill Neck, NY David Einhorn, New York, NY Annie Sandler, Norfolk, VA Wayne L. Firestone, Lisa Eisen, Washington, DC Rayna Schaff, University of Illinois President, Washington, DC Edith B. Everett, New York, NY Urbana-Champaign Chaiki Feldman, Englewood, NJ Morton Owen Schapiro, Adam Frankel, University of Arizona Williamstown, MA PAST CHAIRS David Gedzelman, New York, NY Jane Scher, San Diego, CA Seth Gillston, New York, NY Evan Segal, Pittsburgh, PA Randall Kaplan, Greensboro, NC Cassandra Gottlieb, Baltimore, MD Robert Shlachter, Portland, OR Neil Moss, Columbus, OH Dana Greenberg, University of Texas Andrew Sklover, Teaneck, NJ Chuck Newman, Ann Arbor, MI Lynne B Harrison, MetroWest, NJ Carol Smokler, Boca Raton, FL Michael Rukin, Boston, MA William Heller, Cleveland, OH Sharon Margolin Ungerleider, Gary Hirschberg, Chicago, IL Eugene, OR EX OFFICIO Sara E. Hurand, Cleveland, OH Judy Yudof, Austin, TX Michael Kassen, Westport, CT Louis Howard Yuster, Los Angeles, CA Edgar M. Bronfman, New York, NY Joseph Kohane, Hillel at The Ohio Eric Weiser, University of California, State University San Diego MEMBERS Leiba Krantzberg, Ottawa, ON Carol B. Wise, New Orleans, LA Mark Lainer, Los Angles, CA David Yaffe, Washington, DC Joseph Ament, Chicago, Illinois Michael Lebovitz, Chattanooga, TN Lois Zoller, Chicago, IL Sandy Baklor, Palm Beach, FL Blossom Leibowitz, Tampa, FL Laurie Blitzer, New York, NY Barry Levin, Philadelphia, PA

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EDGAR M. BRONFMAN LYNN SCHUSTERMAN MICHAEL STEINHARDT Chairman, New York, New York Co-Chair, Tulsa, Oklahoma Co-Chair, New York, New York

S. Daniel Abraham Abel Friedman Arlene I. Kaufman Keith Rosenbloom Palm Beach, FL Chicago, IL Palm Beach, FL New York, NY

William A. Ackman Michael C. Gelman Ivan and Lisa Kaufman Julian Sandler New York, NY Washington, DC Great Neck, NY Dix Hills, NY

Harvey Beker Robert Goldberg Michael Kempner * Stacy H. Schusterman New York, NY Cleveland, OH East Rutherford, NJ Tulsa, OK

Robert M. Beren Jane H. Goldman Robert Kogod Evan J. Segal * Palm Beach, FL New York, NY Washington, DC Pittsburgh, PA

Mandell L. Berman David Goldsmith Murray Koppelman Mark R. Shenkman Southfi eld, MI New York, NY New York, NY Greenwich, CT

Arline Bittker David S. Gottesman Harvey M. Krueger Victoria Simms Warren, MI New York, NY New York, NY Beverly Hills, CA

Alexander Blavatnik Michael Granoff Michael and Andrea Leeds Carol Smokler New York, NY Tenafl y, NJ Syosset, NY Boca Raton, FL

Adam Bronfman Robin Greenspun* Reuben Leibowitz Helene Spiegel Paradise Valley, AZ Henderson, NV New York, NY Beverly Hills, CA

Charles R. Bronfman Harold Grinspoon and Jerry Levin David Tepper New York, NY Diane Troderman Boca Raton, FL Chatham, NJ Longmeadow, MS Stephen R. Bronfman Gustave K. Lipman Isaac Thau Montreal, Quebec Lynne B Harrison New York, NY Vancouver, British Columbia Metrowest, NJ Stanley Chais Howard Lorber Leslie H. Wexner New York, NY Howard Jonas New York, NY New Albany, OH Riverdale, NY Abby Joseph Cohen and Joseph Low Mark and Jane Wilf * David M. Cohen Mitchell R. Julis Purchase, NY Short Hills, NJ Hollis Hills, NY Beverly Hills, CA Peter May Gary Winnick David Einhorn Joseph Kanfer New York, NY Beverly Hills, CA New York, NY Akron, OH Abraham A. Mitchell Diane Wohl Eduardo S. Elsztain Edward H. Kaplan Mobile, AL Mill Neck, NY Buenos Aires, Argentina Washington, DC Mimi Perlman Carey Wolchok * Edith B. Everett Randall Kaplan London, England New York, NY New York, NY Greensboro, NC Abe Pollin Mordehai Wosk Ziel and Chaiki Feldman Ellie Meyerhoff Katz Washington, DC Vancouver, British Columbia Englewood, NJ Fort Lauderdale, FL Howard Rosenbloom Baltimore, MD * New Members in 2007-2008

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