William G. Tierney, Founding Director, USC Pullias Center for Higher Education
“Higher Education for Democracy”

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Sarita E. Brown, President, Excelencia in Education
“Pursuing Equity in Higher Education Using a Latino Lens”

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Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
“Professors and Their Masters: Challenges to Academic Freedom in the Contemporary World”

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Freeman Hrabowski,  President of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
“Transforming American Higher Education: A 50-year Experiment and its Lessons for the Future”

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Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California
“A Trifecta for the Future: Higher Education, California, and Innovation”

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Daphne Koller, Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University
“The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone”

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Nancy L. Zimpher, Chancellor of the State University of New York
“Universities as Engines of Economic Growth and Educational Success”

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Clayton M. Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
“The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out”

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James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Division of Curriculum & Instruction
Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton College of Education.
“Games, Learning, and the Looming Crisis in Higher Education”

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Gene D. Block, Jean-Lou Chameau, Michael V. Drake, Steven B. Sample, Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles| President, California Institute of Technology|Chancellor, University of California, Irvine| President, University of Southern California “The Future of Higher Education: A Southern California Perspective”

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C.L. Max Nikias, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Provost Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities, University of Southern California: “Beyond the Ivory Towers: On Tomorrow’s American Research University”

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Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., President, University of Pennsylvania.
“Great Expectations for Higher Education in the 21st Century”

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George D. Kuh, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education and Director, Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana Unviersity, Bloomington “Student Success in College: Puzzle, Pipeline, or Pathway?”

Sylvia Hurtado, Ph.D., Professor and Director, University of California, Los Angeles “Higher Learning for Citizenship”

Lloyd Armstrong, Jr., Ph.D., Provost and Senior Vice President, University of Southern California and Douglas Becker, Chairman and CEO, Laureate Education, Inc. “Higher Education and the Global Marketplace: Entrepreneurial Activity in a Dynamic Environment”

Vincent Tinto, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Syracuse University, Walter Allen, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Co-director of CHOICES, University of California, Los Angeles and D. Bruce Johnstone, Ph.D., Director, Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education, State University of New York, Buffalo.

Donald Kennedy, Ph.D., President Emeritus, Stanford University “Governance and University Policy: Looking Before You Leap”

Steven B. Sample, Ph.D., Robert C. Packard President’s Chair President, University of Southern California.

Karen Symms Gallagher, Ph.D., Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean USC Rossier School of Education.

Arthur Levine, Ph.D., President, Teachers College.

Charles B. Reed, Ph.D., Chancellor, California State University System.

Thomas J. Nussbaum, J.D., Chancellor, California Community Colleges.

Richard C. Atkinson, Ph.D., President, University of California.

Yolanda T. Moses, Ph.D., President, The City College of New York.

K. Patricia Cross, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.

Barry Munitz, Ph.D., Chancellor, California State University.

Steven B. Sample, Ph.D., Robert C. Packard President’s Chair President, University of Southern California.

John E. Roueche, Ph.D., Sid W. Richardson Regent’s Chair, University of Texas at Austin.

John Brooks Slaughter, Ph.D., President, Occidental College

Ernest L. Boyer, Ph.D., President, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Terrel Bell, Ph.D., Former United States Secretary of Education.

David P. Gardener, Ph.D., President, University of California.

James H. Zumberge, Ph.D., President, University of Southern California.

Terry Sanford, Ph.D., President Emeritus, Duke University.

K. Patricia Cross, Ph.D., Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

Clark Kerr, Ph.D., President Emeritus, University of California.

W. Ann Reynolds, Ph.D., Chancellor, California State University.

Dale Parnell, Ed.D., President, American Association of Community Colleges and Junior Colleges.

Paul Hadley, Ph.D., Academic Vice President, University of Southern California.

Ernest L. Boyer, Ph.D., President, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Norman Topping, M.D., SC.D., L.L.D., L.H.D., Sid W. Richardson Regent’s Chair, University of Texas at Austin.