Plenary Panels:
Just Over the Horizon

Board governance in today's highly competitive, shifting global environments: What will change, what will remain the same, and why. Throughout many of the 2008 conference roundtables and concurrent sessions, presenters and facilitators will engage attendees in discussions of what is "just over the horizon" in their respective areas of work or volunteer service and whether - and how - these emerging issues relate to the work of trustees, presidents, and foundation leaders in higher education.
The Known World The See-Saw Factor
For many countries today, bringing foreign students and faculty to their universities and sending their students abroad are strategic elements of very fundamental national aspirations and interests. Hear how some of these nations are pursuing their aims.

Moderator
Richard A. Skinner, senior vice president, AGB

Panelists
Representatives from:

  • Commonwealth of Australia
  • Peoples' Republic of China
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Supachai Yavaprabhas, director, South East Asia Ministers of Education Organization Regional Institute for Higher Education & development
AGBJamil Salmi, senior advisor on higher education, the World Bank

 

 Access, Price, Quality, and Productivity: The Dynamics and Dilemma of Higher Education

This panel of experts will broadly examine the forces that push and pull colleges and universities today as their leaders and boards seek to maintain access, ensure quality, and improve productivity.

Moderator
Richard Legon, president, AGB

Panelists
Bernstein

Allison Bernstein

vice president, Ford Foundation
Wellman

Jane Wellman

Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs
Reindl

Travis Reindl

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