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Harvard Summit on Excellence in Higher Education HARVARD SUMMIT ON EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION EXPLORING ISSUES OF ACADEMIC INCLUSION September 21 & 22, 2017 Loeb House, Harvard Yard INTRODUCTION SUMMIT AGENDA Thursday, September 21, 2017 In the early 1980’s and as president of Harvard University, Derek Bok posed the questions, “What are we here at Harvard doing well for our 1:00pm Summit Welcome: Event History, Philosophy, and Goals undergraduates?” and “How can we tweak or change what we are doing to Robert Lue strengthen the undergraduate college experience?” Together with faculty Professor of the Practice of Molecular and member Richard Light, he created the Harvard Assessment Seminars, Cellular Biology a working group of faculty members, administrators and students from Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director more than 20 universities, who convened monthly to work on problems The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning related to undergraduate education. The results of the work were used to Harvard University inform policy decisions on home campuses. Jenny Bergeron Director of Educational Research and Evaluation The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning seeks to enhance learning The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard by integrating its traditional strengths in cultivating excellent Harvard University instruction with an expanded focus on discovering new approaches to teaching and learning, and improving the student experience, coupled with researching the efficacy of these approaches in the classroom and beyond. Staying true to the words of its namesake, Derek Bok, the Bok 1:30pm Panel 1: “What Does Inclusion Mean for Our Campuses?” Center is reinvigorating the spirit of the original Harvard Assessment Rakesh Khurana Seminars in convening and leveraging the country’s top leaders from Danoff Dean of Harvard College leading American universities for an annual gathering, now renamed the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development Harvard Summit on Excellence in Higher Education. Professor of Sociology Harvard University Each summit will have a strong focus on educational data. Evidence- based ideas and solutions will be actively discussed and debated by the Harry Elam Vice President for the Arts entire group. We anticipate that the principles that emerge at our Senior Vice Provost for Education gatherings can then be “taken back home” to participating campuses Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate and shared with broader academic communities. It is our hope that Education the principles and related plans generated at the events will extend, over Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities time, far beyond the original participants. Participants will be people Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University with the capacity to lead change, who dare to be provocative, those with fresh—even unusual—perspectives who aren’t afraid to challenge Q&A conventional wisdom among university leaders. Each year topics will rotate. Rooted in the relevant national conversations 2:15pm Break of the past year, this inaugural Summit will focus on issues of academic inclusion, with the recognition of personal and social inclusion factors as well. This summit seeks to foster fresh and innovative thinking on how to most constructively address this issue. 1 Thursday, September 21, 2017 (continued) Friday, September 22, 2017 2:45pm Panel 2: “What is Our Responsibility to Our Students?” 8:45am Breakfast Spotlight: “Inclusion at the US Air Force Academy” Joanne Berger-Sweeney President Richard Light Trinity College Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning Jonathan Holloway Harvard University Provost Dana Born Northwestern University Faculty Chair, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executive Fellows Program Rebecca Graves-Bayazitoglu Lecturer in Public Policy Associate Dean of the College Harvard University Director, The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning Princeton University 9:45am Panel 3: “Academic Innovations in STEM” Q&A Robert Lue Professor of the Practice of Molecular and 4:00pm Discussion Break-Out Session Cellular Biology Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director 5:00pm Break The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Harvard University 5:30pm Cocktails and Dinner at Harvard Faculty Club Philip Uri Treisman Professor of Mathematics and of Public Affairs Richard Light Executive Director of the Charles A. Dana Center Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching University of Texas at Austin and Learning Harvard University Elizabeth F. McCormack Dean for Academic Affairs Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of Physics President Bowdoin College Harvard University Talithia D. Williams Associate Dean for Research and Experiential Learning Dan Levy Associate Professor of Mathematics Senior Lecturer in Public Policy Harvey Mudd College Faculty Chair of the Kennedy School’s SLATE (Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence) Discussion and Q&A Initiative Harvard University 11:15am Break 8:00pm End of Day 1 2 3 Friday, September 22, 2017 (continued) PARTICIPANTS As of September 13, 2017 11:45am Spotlight: “Remarks on Inclusion at Elite Universities” Richard Light Danielle Allen Joe Blatt Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching Harvard University Harvard University and Learning [email protected] [email protected] Harvard University Valerie Ashby Peter Bol Rachel Gable Duke University Harvard University Assistant Director for Academic Programming [email protected] [email protected] for VCU Globe Randy Bass Dana Born Virginia Commonwealth University * Georgetown University Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] 12:15pm Lunch Anya Bassett Tamara Brenner Harvard University Harvard University 1:15pm Panel 4: “Academic Innovations in Writing and [email protected] [email protected] The Humanities” Ian Baucom Andrea Conklin Bueschel Khristina Gonzalez University of Virginia Northwestern University Associate Dean of the College [email protected] [email protected] Director of Programs for Access and Inclusion Princeton University Erin Baumann Liza Cariaga-Lo Harvard University Brown University Thomas Jehn [email protected] [email protected] Sosland Director of the Harvard College Writing Program Joanne Berger-Sweeney * Grace Cheng Harvard University Trinity College Wellesley College [email protected] [email protected] Roosevelt Montás Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum and Jenny Bergeron * + Adrienne Christiansen Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Harvard University Macalester College Columbia University [email protected] [email protected] Discussion and Q&A Dan Berrett Nina Collins The Chronicle of Higher Education Harvard University 2:45pm Closing Remarks [email protected] [email protected] Richard Light Ed Bertschinger Andrew Delbanco Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching [email protected] [email protected] and Learning Harvard University 3:00pm End of Day 2 * = Speaker + = Planning Committee member 4 5 Christopher Dennis Rebecca Graves-Bayazitoglu * Richard Light * + Roosevelt Montás * Brown University Princeton University Harvard University Columbia University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Harry Elam * Courtney Hall + Kathryn Low Colleen Noonan + Stanford University Harvard University Bates College Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Heidi Elmendorf Angel Harris Candice Lowe-Swift David Oxtoby Georgetown University Duke University Vassar College Pomona College [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Catherine Epstein Jonathan Holloway * Robert Lue * + Karen Pearce + Amherst College Northwestern University Harvard University Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Drew Gilpin Faust * Mark Hovey Liz McCormack * David Pillemer Harvard University Wesleyan University Bowdoin College University of New Hampshire [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Missy Foy Tracey Hucks Matt McGann Allison Pingree Georgetown University Colgate University Massachusetts Institute of Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] Technology [email protected] [email protected] Rachel Gable * Harrison Keller Pamela Pollock Virginia Commonwealth University The University of Texas at Austin Judith McLaughlin Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] Ann Gaylin Robin Kelsey Francesca Purcell Harvard University Harvard University Joel Meyerson American Academy of Arts and [email protected] [email protected] Massachusetts Institute of Sciences Technology [email protected] Khristina Gonzalez * Rakesh Khurana * [email protected] Princeton University Harvard University David Quigley [email protected] [email protected] Jason Mitchell Boston College Harvard University [email protected] Robin Gottlieb Dan Levy * [email protected] Harvard University Harvard University Adrian Randolph [email protected] [email protected] Northwestern University [email protected] * = Speaker * = Speaker + = Planning Committee member + = Planning Committee member
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