Presidential Sessions This thread brings together the presidential sessions. Thursday, November 5, 2015 Session 1, 1:00 - 2:15 PM Presidential Session: Using Social Media to Connect Research to Policy and Practice Location: Capitol 4 o Chair: Ana Martinez-Aleman/Boston College o Discussant: Doug Lederman/Inside Higher Education o Evan Urbania/CEO, Chatterblast Politics of Identity Post-Obama: Obstacles to Access and Challenging Inequality in Higher Education Part 2 Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 PM Mineral A o Eboni Zamani-Gallaher/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign o Jerlando Jackson/University of Wisconsin o LaVar J. Charleston/University of Wisconsin-Madison o Juan Gilbert/Clemson University o Denise Green/Ryerson University o William A. Smith/University of Utah o Raul Leon/Eastern Michigan University Thursday, November 5, 2015 Session 2, 2:30 - 3:45 PM Presidential Session: Reflections on Connecting Research and Practice in College Access and Success Programs Location: Capitol 4 o Chair: Heather Rowan-Kenyon/Boston College o Discussant: Margaret Cahalan/Pell Institute o Judy Marquez Kiyama/University of Denver o Kristan Venegas/University of Southern California o Angela Bell/West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission o Paul Beasley/University of South Carolina o Mika Yamashita/Pell Institute o Ryan Wells/University of Massachusetts Amherst o Oscar Felix/Colorado State University o Christopher Mullin/State University System of Florida This session summarizes the work of a yearlong collaboration between ASHE and The Pell Institute. Participants draw on survey data and other sources to reflect on how to improve connections between research and practice on college access and success programs. Thursday, November 5, 2015 Session 3, 4:00 - 5:15 PM Presidential Session: Translating research to policy to reduce inequality in state higher education outcomes: Lessons learned from multi-sector collaborations Location: Granite ABC o Chair: Brian Prescott/Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education o Discussant: Stella Flores/Vanderbilt University o Katie Zaback/SHEEO o Michelle Asha Cooper/Institute for Higher Education Policy o Victor Saenz/The University of Texas at Austin o Brian A. Sponsler/ECS - Education Commission of the States o Nicholas Hillman/University of Wisconsin-Madison Through a collaboration with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), ASHE-affiliated researchers and members of various policy organizations are evaluating how academic research can better inform and influence state higher education policies, especially in order to address issues of inequity in postsecondary access and outcomes. The panel will consist of perspectives on lessons learned from the collaboration between policy groups and academic researchers and will include a presentation of findings from a white paper from a year-long research group examining the most effective strategies for merging rigorous academic research with policymaking bodies on issues relating to access and equity in postsecondary education Thursday, November 5, 2015 Presidential Address, 5:30 - 6:45 PM Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Ten Ways to Ensure that Our Research Continues to Matter Location: Capitol 1-4 Chair: Matt Mayhew/New York University Introduction: James Minor/Department of Education o Laura W. Perna/University of Pennsylvania, ASHE President Friday, November 6, 2015 Session 4, 9:00 – 10:15 AM Presidential Session: Beyond Research to Practice: Institutionalizing Collaboration Between ASHE Researchers and Smaller Private Institutions Location: Granite ABC Chair: Christopher Morphew/University of Iowa Discussant: Harold V. Hartley III/Council of Independent Colleges o Christopher Morphew/University of Iowa o Harold V. Hartley III/Council of Independent Colleges o John Braxton/Vanderbilt University o James Hearn/University of Georgia o Laurie Schreiner/Azusa Pacific University o Nicholas Hillman/University of Wisconsin-Madison o David Guthrie/Penn State University o Cynthia Wells/Messiah College o Jillian Kinzie/Indiana University Representatives of the members of the ASHE-CIC Collaboration will lead an ASHE Presidential Session that will provide an opportunity to discuss the topics covered by the white papers in the context of contemporary challenges facing the leadership of CIC member institutions. Friday, November 6, 2015 10:30 - 11:15 AM Funders Plenary: A Conversation with Higher Education Funders Location: Capitol ballroom o Chair: Laura W. Perna/University of Pennsylvania o Thomas Brock/Director, Young Adults and Postsecondary Education o Adam Gamoran/William T. Grant Foundation o Danette Howard/Lumina Foundation Friday, November 6, 2015 Session 5, 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM First-Generation Documentary: Alternative approaches to disseminating research-based knowledge on important higher education issues Location: Granite ABC Chair: Shaun R. Harper/University of Pennsylvania o Jaye Fenderson/First Generation Filmmaker o Dontay Gray/Student featured in First Generation Friday, November 6, 2015 Session 6, 2:30 – 3:45 PM Presidential Session: Culturally Relevant Research in Higher Education Granite ABC Chair: Matt Mayhew/New York University o Judy Marquez Kiyama/University of Denver o Stephanie Waterman/University of Toronto o Deborah Faye Carter/Claremont Graduate University o Leticia Oseguera/The Pennsylvania State University Hegemonic research practices continue to dominate conversations about inequality in higher education, especially in empirical discussions of culturally-relevant research on or concerning the racialized identities of college students. How do scholars approach their methodological and analytic choices in the examination of students from historically marginalized communities? How do these choices reflect the scholars' desires to address inequalities in higher education? How do scholars understand these methodological and analytic choices as vehicles for informing policy and practice related to reducing inequality? Questions like these will serve as the catalyst for a deep exploration of the impact methodological and analytic choices have on addressing issues of inequality in higher education. Friday, November 6, 2015 Session 7, 4:00 – 5:15 PM Presidential Session: Renegotiating the Academic Trinity in the Global, New Economy Granite ABC Chair: Gary Rhoades/University of Arizona o Benjamin Baez/Florida International University o Amy Metcalfe/University of British Columbia o Blanca Torres-Olave/Loyola University Chicago The session offers new takes on old concepts amidst normalized new realities. Session panelists will explore structures of academic employment, of the local and international political economy, and of (neo)racism/classism/sexism that make the academic trinity of academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance at best incomplete, and at worst fatally flawed in who and what they include, foster, exclude, and promote. What do local intersectionalities and negotiations among faculty union/senate/management, Foucauldian conceptions of biopower and security in relation to the normalized global flows of academic careers, the collective activism of gendered/raced/ classed contingent, precarious employees, and pervasive constructions of institutional autonomy and accountability by international agencies such as the World Bank have in common? They all involve collectively reshaping the current lived realities of free and engaged speech, employment security, and of academic voice and public purpose in the academy. Focusing on such phenomena, the session aims to stimulate/map creative ideas/questions/methods for mapping agendas for research, for policy and practice, and for collective action in re-thinking and renegotiating academic freedom, tenure, and governance in academe. Friday, November 6, 2015 Keynote Address, 5:30 - 6:30 PM ASHE 2015 Keynote Address Location: Capitol 1,2,3,4 Chair: Laura W. Perna/University of Pennsylvania o Cheryl Crazy Bull/American Indian College Fund Saturday, November 7, 2015 Session 8, 9:15 – 10:30 AM Presidential Session: Bridging the international higher education gap: Practitioner perspectives and research agendas Location: Capitol 4 Chair: Kevin Hovland/NASFA Discussant: Jenny Lee/The University of Arizona o Chris Glass/Old Dominion University o Simon Marginson/Institute of Education, London o Amy Metcalfe/University of British Columbia o Sheila Schulte/NAFSA: Association of International Educators o Susan Twombly/University of Kansas A collaborative effort between ASHE and NAFSA: Association of International Educators explores the gap between the work of higher education researchers and the work of international education practitioners. Through facilitated conversations and a NAFSA member survey, the project team will identify sets of professional priorities representing a diverse range of practice areas and institutional contexts. Those priority sets include a variety of issues, challenges, and obstacles faced in daily work and strategic planning and can be seen as profiles from a complex field. By sharing these findings with higher education researchers, the session seeks to stimulate scholarship that takes advantage of NAFSA member knowledge and experience as well as the tools and perspectives of ASHE member researchers. Panelists will share preliminary data and lead discussion about implications and opportunities. Saturday, November 7, 2015 Session 9, 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Presidential Session: Affecting practice and policy with financial aid research: A collaboration between