HARVARD SUMMIT ON EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

EXPLORING OUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC GOOD

April 4 & 5, 2019 Loeb House, Harvard Yard INTRODUCTION SUMMIT AGENDA Thursday, April 4, 2019 In the early 1980’s, President Derek Bok posed the questions, “What are we here at Harvard doing well for our undergraduates?” 12:45pm Registration and “How can we tweak or change what we are doing to strengthen the undergraduate college experience?” Together with faculty member Richard 1:00pm Summit Welcome Light, he created the Harvard Assessment Seminars, a working group of Robert Lue Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology faculty members, administrators and students from more than 20 universities, Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director, Derek Bok Center who convened monthly to work on problems related to undergraduate for Teaching and Learning education. The results of the work were used to inform policy decisions on Harvard University home campuses. 1:15pm Opening Remarks The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning seeks to create transforma- Truth, Excellence, and Opportunity: Restoring Public Confidence tional learning experiences for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in American Higher Education in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, by supporting experimentation, Lawrence S. Bacow innovation, and evidence-based practices. Staying true to the words of its President namesake, in 2017 the Bok Center reinvigorated the spirit of the original Professor of Public Policy Harvard Assessment Seminars in convening and leveraging faculty and Harvard University administrators from leading American universities, in a gathering that was renamed the Harvard Summit on Excellence in Higher Education. 2:00pm Universities and the Public Good: University Leaders Reflect At each Summit, the entire group actively discusses and debates evidence- based ideas. We anticipate that the ideas that emerge at our gatherings can be Moderator: Robert Lue taken back home to participating campuses and shared with broader academic Preserving the Essential Elements of Higher Education communities. It is our hope that the principles and related plans generated While Meeting Public Expectations at the events will extend, over time, far beyond the original participants. Holden Thorp Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs The theme of each Summit rotates. The inaugural Summit, in 2017, focused Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor on issues of academic inclusion. The current Summit probes the question of Washington University in St. Louis whether — and how — a liberal arts and science education serves the ‘public good.’ We hope that each participant will leave the Summit with several Laboratories of Democracy: Rethinking Higher Education concrete strategies that they can implement on their campus, to connect the as a Public Good undergraduate curriculum with the public good in compelling ways. Paula Johnson President Thank you for joining us for the Summit. We can’t wait to see what emerges Wellesley College from our conversations!

Higher Education and the American Dream Bridget Terry Long Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Saris Professor of Education and Economics Harvard University

1 Thursday, April 4, 2019 (continued) Friday, April 5, 2019

3:15pm Break 8:30am Breakfast

3:45pm Break-Out Session: What is ‘the public good’? 9:00am Breakfast Spotlight Moderators: Moderator: Richard Light Adam Beaver Non-Vocational Higher Education: Lessons from 2000 Interviews Director of Pedagogy and Practice, Derek Bok Center on 10 Disparate Campuses for Teaching and Learning Howard Gardner Harvard University John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate Pamela Pollock School of Education Associate Director of Professional and Scholarly Harvard University Development, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Harvard University 9:40am Case Studies from the Disciplines Moderator: Tamara Brenner 5:00pm Cocktails at Harvard Faculty Club Executive Director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning 6:00pm Dinner at Harvard Faculty Club Harvard University

Moderator: Richard Light Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning Changing the Climate: Liberal Arts and the Public Good Harvard University Caroline Levander Vice President for Global and Digital Strategy Carlson Professor in the Humanities Rethinking Educating Citizens and Citizen-Leaders Through Professor in English the Liberal Arts and Sciences Rice University Rakesh Khurana Community-Based Learning Courses in Statistics: Could Selection Danoff Dean of Bias be a Good Thing? Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development Lynne Steuerle Schofield Professor of Sociology Associate Provost for Faculty Diversity and Development Harvard University Associate Professor of Statistics The Role of the Liberal Arts in a 100-year Work Life Swarthmore College Michelle Weise Senior Vice President, Strada Education Network Citizens, Thinkers, and Writers in New Haven, Connecticut Chief Innovation Officer, Strada Institute for the Future Bryan Garsten of Work Professor of Political Science and the Humanities Chair of the Humanities Program Yale University

11:00am Break

2 3 Friday, April 5, 2019 (continued) PARTICIPANTS As of March 25, 2019 11:30am Design Challenge: Crafting Our Own Interventions Moderators: Lawrence S. Bacow * Genevre Filiault Jonah Johnson Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assistant Director of Writing Pedagogy, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Ken Bartels Wendy Fischman Harvard University Paxton Properties Harvard University

Pamela Pollock Rachel Bean Andrew Fisher Associate Director of Professional and Scholarly Carleton College Development, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Harvard University Adam Beaver * Chris Gallagher Harvard University Northeastern University

12:15pm Lunch Spotlight Joe Blatt Howard Gardner * Why Is the Public Trust in Higher Education So Alarmingly Low, Harvard University Harvard University and What Could Be Done About It? Tamara Brenner * + Bryan Garsten * Richard K. Miller Harvard University Yale University President Professor of Mechanical Engineering Amanda Claybaugh Mark Gearan * Olin College of Engineering Harvard University Harvard University

James Glaser 1:15pm Engagement with Politics and Democracy Mary Coffey Pomona College Tufts University Moderator: Tamara Brenner Buck Goldstein Educating for Democracy in Polarized Times Nina Collins Harvard University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Nancy Thomas Director, Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, Andrew Delbanco Angel Harris Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life The Teagle Foundation, Duke University Tufts University Columbia University Tom Healey Beyond the Ivory Tower: Public Service in the 21st Century Dawn Delbanco Healey Development, LLC Mark Gearan Columbia University Bob Jacobsen Director, The Institute of Politics at the Chuck Dorn University of California, Berkeley Harvard University Bowdoin College Jonah Johnson * Peter Dougherty Harvard University 2:15pm Closing Remarks Princeton University Press Richard Light and Robert Lue

* = Speaker + = Planning Committee member

4 5 PARTICIPANTS (continued) As of March 25, 2019

Paula Johnson * Meroe Park Nancy Thomas * Wellesley College Partnership for Public Service Tufts University

Harrison Keller Flavia Perea Trisha Thorme University of Texas at Austin Harvard University Princeton University

Rakesh Khurana * Allison Pingree Holden Thorp * Harvard University Harvard University Washington University in St. Louis

Caroline Levander * Steven Pinker Dustin Tingley Rice University Harvard University Harvard University

Richard Light * + Pamela Pollock * Michelle Weise * Harvard University Harvard University Strada Institute for the Future of Work

Beth Loizeaux Francesca Purcell Martin West Boston University American Academy of Arts and Sciences Harvard University

Bridget Terry Long * David Quigley Dawn Michele Whitehead Harvard University Boston College Association of American Colleges & Universities Robert Lue * + Samantha Reed + Harvard University Harvard University Elaine Wong Brandeis University Zid Mancenido Jennifer Scanlon Harvard University Wellesley College Rashid Zia Brown University Joel Meyerson Joel Schildbach Massachusetts Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University

Richard K. Miller * Lynne Steuerle Schofield * Olin College of Engineering Swarthmore College

Sujata Moorti Nicole Stanton Middlebury College Wesleyan University

Colleen Noonan + Sheila Thimba Harvard University Harvard University

* = Speaker * = Speaker + = Planning Committee member + = Planning Committee member

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Carpenter Center

Widener QUINCY STREET Library * *

MASSACHUSETTS AVE PRESCOTT STREET Lamont

Loeb House Faculty Club 17 Quincy Street 20 Quincy Street Summit Meeting Cocktails & Dinner

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