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Seeking the Presidency Registration Form, online, to be mailed or faxed
(This form must be used for all individuals who plan on attending the 2-hour Seeking the Presidency program on Thursday, July 29, from 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.)

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Workshop for New Provosts  
A workshop for provosts who have been in their role for less than a year. Free of charge but registration required. Please indicate on the registration form if you would like to participate in this popular session.

Presenters:

Kay Clayton, Former Provost, Texas Woman’s University
Susan Koch, Provost and Vice president for Academic Affairs, Northern Michigan University
Martin Tadlock, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma

Seeking the Presidency 
A workshop for those experienced provosts interested in applying for a presidency.  This workshop focuses on search mechanics:  identifying institutions with the right “fit”; preparing the search CV; writing a letter of application; interview tactics.  Free of charge, but registration required.  Please fill out a separate registration form if you would like to attend this session. Download form (pdf)

Presenter: George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change, AASCU

Opening Plenary:

Medieval Models, Agrarian Calendars and 21st Century Imperatives

Welcome Remarks: George L. Mehaffy, Vice President, Academic Leadership and Change, AASCU

Panelists:

Abe Harraf, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Northern Colorado
Harry Hellenbrand, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, CSU – Northridge
Sally M. Johnstone, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Winona State University
Selase W. Williams, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Southern Connecticut

Provosts of Color Breakfast Meeting

Facilitator: Vilas A. Prabhu, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Plenary Session:

An Optimist’s Education Agenda

Introducer: Suzanne Ozment, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, USC Aiken

Presenter: Mark David Milliron, Deputy Director, Higher Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Concurrent Session

New Models for Instructional and Institutional Design—International Education

Preparing Globally Competent Citizens: The 7 Revolutions Model


Presenter: Martin C. Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Psychology and 7 Revolutions Scholar, California State University Fresno

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A Web-Based Platform for Increasing International Education
To promote international education throughout Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University has developed an interactive, searchable Web-based platform that cross-lists study abroad courses and programs, as well as internationally themed events, at colleges and universities throughout the state; identifies faculty members with expertise in different international areas of study; and provides an opportunity for social networking among international students at different institutions.

Presenter: Carl R. Lovitt, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Central Connecticut State University

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Infusing Global Perspectives: Strategies for Institutional Change
This presentation discusses strategies used at SUNY Oswego and elsewhere to infuse "world awareness" into the fabric of a campus culture.

Presenter: Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Deputy to the President for Special Projects, State University of New York Oswego

New Approaches to Strategic Planning

Developing an Academic Master Plan
In developing an academic master plan, process is just as important as product. Hear how we continue to ensure that our strategic academic master plan is about both the journey and the destination.

Presenter: Barbara G. Lyman, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

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Dynamic Planning for Rapid Development and Implementation


Presenter: Uday Sukhatme, Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Academic Planning: Connecting the Dots—Strategies for Developing a Comprehensive Academic Plan
Results of an effort to reorganize academic departments into interdisciplinary units aligned with the university’s strategic plan.


Presenter: Ivan W. Banks, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

New Models for Institutional Design

Restructuring to Facilitate Learning
With a focus on student learning and learning outcomes, Ramapo College moved Student Affairs to the Office of the Provost. Issues of recruitment, retention, experiential learning, and developmental work were reconceived.


Presenter: Beth E. Barnett, Provost, Ramapo College of New Jersey

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A Unique Experiment in Higher Education
In 1991, the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College combined to offer both community college programs and university programs. Could this “Community University” model be replicated elsewhere?


Presenter: Alan F.J. Artibise, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Texas at Brownsville & Texas Southmost College

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Delighted to Be Assessed, Thank You
Assessment is absolutely necessary in order to understand what we are doing and how effective we are at doing it. However, the language of SLO’s, goals and objectoves, and metrics can still be alienating to many segments of the university. How can you develop activities that allow faculty to see how assessment works for them and for their institution, in the process changing the culture of the institution?

Presenter: Brian U. Adler, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Georgia Southwestern State University

New Models for Developmental Education

Improving College Readiness
A collaborative high school-college program to offer remedial mathematics, reading and writing courses in the 12th grade, reducing the need for remedial work once students enter college.


Presenter: Gail W. Wells, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Northern Kentucky University

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The Structured Transitional Academic Year (STAY) Program
Students who need two or more developmental courses cannot take general education courses, and instead receive an intensive skill building and mentoring program designed to prepare them for college-level work.


Presenter: Michael Mumper, Provost, Adams State College

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Readers Matter
A program for instructors to have a team of reading specialists (3) evaluate all aspects of their courses relating to reading and best practice. Once an instructor has scored successfully, the course under review will be designated as a “reading friendly” course. This faculty-centered approach to professional development allows for self-reflection, goal setting, and helps ensure that students, particularly underprepared freshmen, are in courses where the learning environment provides support and development of literacy skills and strategies for learning.


Presenters: Pamela Petty, Associate Professor, and Daniel Super, School Psychologist, Western Kentucky University

New Models for Institutional Development

Strategies in Creating a New Center for Engagement, Learning and Teaching
With the need for faculty development particularly around new pedagogies and high-impact practices, Keene State chose to reinvigorate professional development by creating a Center for Engagement, Learning and Teaching. Given fiscal realities, however, this was accomplished by moving personnel, changing responsibilities, and in some instances providing staff training. The result has been a new focus on student learning and a demand for services that in fewer than two years almost outpaces our ability to deliver them. This presentation explores the strategies used to build the center and win faculty support.


Presenter: Emile C. Netzhammer, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Keene State College

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Avoiding Minefields and Mayhem –College Reorganization and University Structure
Restructuring to promote academic excellence and fiscal sustainability, including moving from eight to five colleges


Presenter: Kate L. Forhan, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Southern Maine

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Case Study: Working to Achieve Academic Excellence in a Comprehensive University
Achieving academic excellence requires articulating the roles and expectations of faculty and staff and providing programs that support professional development, student engagement, research/scholarly activity and curriculum innovation.


Presenter: Inessa Levi, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Columbus State University

New Models for Teacher Education

CalStateTEACH: Innovative Teacher Preparation
CalStateTEACH prepares over 800 teachers each year in a non-traditional, on-line program. In addition to the annual feedback by school employers, it is now going to evaluate program qualities based on their value-added analysis of contribution to student learning. This discussion focuses on what CalStateTEACH and the CSU system expect to learn from this bold approach to program evaluation and improvement.


Presenter: Sharon Russell, Systemwide Director, CalStateTEACH, The California State University System

Working Lunch and Plenary Session

Preparing Undergraduates for Business: Liberal Learning for Professional Education


Presenters: Thomas Ehrlich and William M. Sullivan, Senior Scholars, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, California

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Creating Change in Higher Education: Leadership Strategies and Organizational Models
Moderator: John Hammang, Director of Special Projects, AASCU


Panelists:
Lesley DiMare, Provost, Nevada State College;
Virginia S. Horvath, Vice President for Academic Affairs, State University of New York at Fredonia;
Valentine James, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Clarion University of Pennsylvania;
Inessa Levi, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Columbus State University, Georgia

Concurrent Sessions

The New Normal

Change in Higher Education, the Red Balloon Project, and a Way Forward
Re-imagining undergraduate education doesn’t mean saving our institutions but re-committing ourselves to our collective mission. The presentation sketches a pedagogy that addresses a new normal (as opposed to a new normal) and a curriculum that retrieves our legacy as normal schools in the service of that new normal.


Presenter: David Stone, Director, Office of Sponsored Projects, Northern Illinois University

New Designs in Teacher Education
Moderator: Jolanda Westerhof, Director of Teacher Education, AASCU

14 Institutions, 3 states, $ 40 million
A description of Bush Foundation-sponsored innovations in teacher education in the Midwest and their implications for the future of university-based teacher education.


Presenters:
Sally M. Johnstone, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Winona State University
Devinder M. Malhotra, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, St. Cloud State University

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Teacher Education for the 21st Century
Review of best practices in teacher education preparation, ways to address critics, and recommendations to create effective teacher education programs to meet national standards and state and local district needs.


Presenter: Margaret A. Noe, Dean, College of Education, Southeast Missouri State University

Concurrent Sessions

New Models for Teacher Education
Moderator: Jolanda Westerhof, Director of Teacher Education, AASCU

Innovations at Emporia State University
Year-long student teaching in a four year undergraduate program, roles of university faculty members and P-12 mentor teachers, collaborative 2+1+1 partnerships with community colleges.


Presenter: Tes A. Mehring, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emporia State University

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Teacher for a New Era
How a collaborative approach to research, a sophisticated view of evidence, and a respect for inter-institutional cooperation have transformed an institution.


Presenter: Harold Hellenbrand, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, CSU - Northridge

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Professional Development Schools
In response to Arthur Levine’s criticism and call for teacher preparation programs to adopt a more clinical approach similar to that of Schools of Medicine, the School of Education at USC Aiken has moved all of its methods courses to the P-5 setting.


Presenter: Jeffrey M. Priest, Dean, School of Education, University of South Carolina Aiken

New Models for Institutional Design

Building a Campus Culture of Better Communication
Effective communication and collaboration are the cornerstone to achieving an institution’s strategic plan and performance measures of accountability. What are new approaches and strategies for enhancing communication within Academic Affairs and across divisions of the institution?


Presenter: Marilyn J. Wells, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

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Curriculum for a New Era: Streamlining for Efficiency, Student Progression, and Learning
Curricular ‘reform’ efforts to increase student success, increase efficiency, increase retention rates, redesign curricula, and reform curricular review process.


Presenters: Liz Grobsmith, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Karen Pugliesi, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Northern Arizona University

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Who Restructures in This Economic Climate?
Restructuring in 2004 saved money but created a design that was not functional. In 2009, amid strong opposition from faculty, staff and the Board of Trustees, the administrators eventually convinced stakeholders to support a plan that was both functional and cost-saving.


Presenter: Joyce A. Blackwell, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, South Carolina State University

New Conceptions of Stewards of Place

The New Face of Regional Stewardship
In 2002, AASCU articulated the concept of “Stewards of Place” as a way to describe the role of AASCU institutions. Now, eight years later, three new elements are re-shaping the original concept: Applied Research, Civic Education, and P-20 Partnerships. Three provosts describe what these new elements look like in practice.


Moderator: Richard Dunfee, Director, Grants Resource Center (GRC), AASCU

Presenters:
Barbara G. Burch, former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Western Kentucky University
Anne E. Huot, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, State University of New York Brockport
William J. Radke, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Central Oklahoma

New Models: First Year, Graduation, Purpose of the Degree

Re-conceptualizing the First Year of College: A Case Study in Collaborative Leadership


Presenters:
Ronald D. Herron, Vice President for Student and University Affairs and Selase W. Williams, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Southern Connecticut State University

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A System Approach to Increasing Graduation Rates: Reporting on Implementation and Success
In Fall 2009, the California State University rolled out a bold new "Graduation Initiative" aimed at improving the overall graduation rate for the system by 8% by 2016. Each campus has designed and implemented its own specific initiatives. Discussed in this presentation is how one campus in the system is managing this process in a way that is collaborative and inclusive (and having positive results).


Presenter: Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, California State University, Monterey Bay

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Educating for a Living and Educating to Live: Liberal Vocationalism and Redefining the Engaged Regional Comprehensive University


Presenter: William J. McKinney, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

New Approaches to Strategic Planning

Designing a Planning Process to Assure Inclusivity and Transparency
Strategies to create enthusiasm, secure participation and broadly communicate throughout the strategic planning process will be shared.


Presenter: Robin Bowen, Former Provost, Washburn University

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A Case Study of Strategic Planning
How the University of Guam is leading change in response to the buildup of marine forces on the island.


Presenter: Helen J. D. Whippy, Senior Vice President, Academic and Student Affairs, University of Guam

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Building Living-Learning Communities
UNCG is doubling its on-campus residential capacity, and as it does so, it will develop numerous living-learning communities, perhaps involving thousands of students in curricular and co-curricular activities within residence halls. Additionally, all new and renovated student housing buildings will include indwelling faculty apartments, further encouraging a close integration of academic and residential life. UNCG aspires to be the leading exemplar of this model in the UNC System, and a model of best practice nationally. This ambitious initiative demands new ways of doing business across the University. New approaches to funding, design, promotion and tenure guidelines, and cooperation among all campus units.


Presenter: Steve Roberson, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, University of North Carolina - Greensboro

New Models for Enrollment Management

Moderator: Marilyn Sheerer, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, East Carolina University

It Just Takes One: East Carolina’s Retention and Graduation Initiatives
Based on it “Just Takes One to Make a Difference in a Student’s Life…We Each Own This Responsibility, “ there is increased emphasis at ECU on the impact of even a single factor on student success. Utilizing an assessment-based approach, ECU is identifying and initiating new strategies in partnership with Academic and Student Affairs to engage and enrich our students.


Presenter: Jayne Geissler, Executive Director, Retention Programs and Enrollment Services, East Carolina University

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Improving Graduation Rates
Report on Fayetteville State University’s effort to improve graduation rates by increasing progression standards and limiting class withdrawals beginning in fall 2009. These new policies, coupled with stronger academic support resources, have had a positive impact on student academic performance and have the potential for reshaping institutional culture.


Presenter: Jon Young, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Fayetteville State University

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More Than a Village: It Takes a University!
Description of an innovative partnership between the divisions of academic affairs and student affairs to provide strategic, consistent and effective university-wide programs for student recruitment and student support services.


Presenters:
Paul W. Ferguson, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs,
Susan Thomas, Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Program Development and Scott Belobrajdic, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Women Provosts Breakfast Meeting

Facilitator: Chula King, Provost, University of West Florida

Plenary Session: Working with For-Profit Providers

Moderator: Doug Lederman, editor and founder, Inside Higher Ed

Panelists:
Randy Best, CEO, Higher Ed Holdings, Texas
Felice Nudelman, Director of Education, The New York Times
Burck Smith, CEO and founder, StraighterLine, Virginia

Concurrent Sessions

New Models for Institutional and Instructional Design

Using Technology and Classroom Design to Promote Innovative Instructional Design
Classroom design, including technology, space, equipment, and furnishings, contributes to students’ educational experiences and supports learning. This presentation demonstrates how the design of instructional spaces facilitates learning through both technology and human interaction and enables innovative instructional design.


Presenter: Glen H. Cope, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Missouri, St. Louis

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Collaborative Learning and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
How the social web can help develop institutions of higher education as networks and ecosystems for a world of content creation, interactivity and participatory education.


Presenters:
Lawrence V. Gould, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Chris Crawford, Assistant Provost for Quality Management;
Casey Kelch Rohleder, Academic Affairs Marketing Specialist and Stacey Smith, Assistant Professor of Hospitality Management, Fort Hays State University

New Models for Institutional Design

Encouraging Innovation
Implementing a model to fund innovations to contribute the university’s strategic plan roadmap to 2015.


Presenters: Susan J. Koch, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Paul L. Lang, Dean of the College of Professional Studies, Northern Michigan University

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Using the Regional Assessment Process to Spark Innovative Ideas
New directions for general education, interdisciplinary studies, and use of technology.


Presenter: Virginia S. Horvath, Vice President for Academic Affairs, State University of New York Fredonia

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From Separate Silos to Shared Strategies
Using new funding to build partnerships and coalitions among academic disciplines.


Presenters: Rebecca O. Turner, Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Alicia Simmons, Director, Institutional Research and Assessment, Jacksonville State University, Alabama

New Models for Curricular and Course Design

Successfully Redesigning General Education
Discussion of a model used for the successful redesign of General Education through engaging the entire campus community—as well as the implementation process now underway.


Presenter: Sandra M. Flake, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, California State University Chico

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Removing Obstacles to Develop a Summer Undergraduate Research Program
A discussion of how campus administrators collaborated to implement an innovative summer undergraduate research program in spite of cultural, administrative, and financial obstacles.


Presenter: Ellen V. Whitford, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Armstrong Atlantic State University

New Century Learning Consortium
A collaboration among seven AASCU institutions whose aim is the implementation of high quality, online and blended learning programs at regional public universities funded by the Sloan Foundation.


Presenter: Harry J. Berman, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois at Springfield

New Models for Instructional Design

Piloting ETS’s Online Writing Program
The Provost’s office at a comprehensive state institution with a large population of diverse, first-generation college students launched a campus-wide pilot to improve student writing by recruiting and training over 150 volunteer faculty to utilize ETS’ Criterion, an online, computer-based writing feedback program. When instructors effectively implemented Criterion as central to their course writing assignment process, preliminary results were intriguing and promising. Some of the preliminary findings included improved student initiative in using Criterion feedback to revise papers, generally positive student response, somewhat mixed faculty feedback, improved student linguistic metawareness, and improvement in some aspects of student writing performance. Discussion of institutional commitment, responsibility and coordination for supporting and assessing student writing proficiency, as well as the use of technology in faculty training and workload is addressed.


Presenters: William A. Covino, Provost and Ellen Junn, Associate Provost, California State University Fresno

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Webinars as Teaching Platforms
Southeast is using a webinar format for teaching classes in real-time through the web yielding the benefits of greater access while providing a number of cost savings and efficiencies. Presenters briefly discuss the technology and then focus on the cost savings and greater efficiencies in scheduling, classroom utilization, and other examples of the potential benefits of using webinar technology for class delivery.


Presenters: Ronald R. Rosati, Provost and David Starrett, Dean, School of University Studies and Academic Information Services, Southeast Missouri State University

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Academy e-Learning: A Systematic Approach to Course Transformation
Presenter: Gayle Hutchinson, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, California State University Chico

New Models of University Partnerships

Innovative Community College—University Partnership
Enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of a regional higher education system through collaboration of a university and community college. Discuss cross enrollment/transfer agreements and other strategies.


Presenter: Allayne “Laynie” Barrilleaux, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Nicholls State University

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Rural Health Innovation Collaborative
A partnerships between Indiana State University and five community partners, focused on improved preparation of health care providers, inter-professional training, economic development and community redevelopment.


Presenter: C. Jack Maynard, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Indiana State University

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Public-private partnership with the Hospitality Industry
The goal is to create a nationally renowned hospitality program affordably serving a diverse student population. The program prepares tomorrow’s hospitality leaders through experiential learning in a for-profit hotel.


Presenters: Vicki L. Golich, Provost and Sandra D. Haynes, Dean, School of Professional Studies, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Working Lunch: 
Identifying the Most Promising Areas of Reform

Facilitator: Glenn Gabbard, Associate Director, New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), Massachusetts

Panelists:
Alan Artibise, Provost, University of Texas at Brownsville
Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, State University of New York Oswego
Williams J. Fritz, Senior Vice President and Provost for Academic Affairs, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
Sandra J. Jordan, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Georgia College & State University
William J. McKinney, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
John W. Presley, Former Provost, Illinois State University
Sandra S. Stone, Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of West Georgia

Closing Plenary Session: Summary, Design for the Year-Long Initiative

Presenters:
Raymond W. Alden, Executive Vice President and Provost, Northern Illinois University
Barbara G. Burch, former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Western Kentucky University
Glen H. Cope, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Missouri, St. Louis Lawrence V. Gould, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Fort Hays State University
Catherine A. Riordan, Provost, Western Washington University
William J. Seaton, Vice President and Provost, Thomas Edison State College, New Jersey
Marilyn Sheerer, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, East Carolina University

Becoming a Provost Schedule

Plenary Session: Working with For-Profit Providers

Moderator: Doug Lederman, editor and founder, Inside Higher Ed

Panelists:
Randy Best, CEO, Higher Ed Holdings, Texas
Felice Nudelman, Director of Education, The New York Times
Burck Smith, CEO and founder, StraighterLine, Virginia