2020 Preliminary Agenda
Thursday Nov 12 | |
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12:00pm – 12:15pm | Welcome Doug Hughes, CEO, ACT | NRCCUA |
12:15pm – 1:15pm | Keynote Presentation The Power of Identity Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative |
1:30pm – 2:15pm | Research Update Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? Post-Covid College Choice Presented by Kim Reid, Eduventures Principal Analyst, ACT | NRCCUA |
2:15pm – 3:00pm | Research Update Mission True: the Quest for Powerful New Campus-Online Combinations Presented by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer, ACT | NRCCUA |
3:15pm – 4:00pm | Research Update Boom or Bust: Adult Learners and the COVID-19 Pandemic Presented by Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst, ACT | NRCCUA and Nichole Torpey-Saboe, Director of Research, Strada Education |
4:00pm – 4:45pm | Research Update Student Journey Mapping: Understanding and Improving the Student Experience Presented by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst, ACT | NRCCUA |
4:45pm – 5:30pm | President’s Panel Leadership Now: Presidents Discuss Crisis Management and Long-term Strategy Moderated by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer, ACT | NRCCUA |
5:30pm | Closing Remarks Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer, ACT | NRCCUA |
2019 Agenda
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019 | |
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6:00pm – 8:00pm | Registration and Opening Reception |
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019 |
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7:30am – 8:30am | Registration and Breakfast |
8:30am – 9:00am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Patrick Vogt, CEO, ACT | NRCCUA |
9:00am – 9:45am | Opening Keynote Speaker Education: Standing in the Path of a Tsunami Mitch Daniels, President, Purdue University |
9:45am – 10:30am | Featured Speaker Brand Matters: The Relationship between Students and Schools Kim Reid, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA |
10:30am – 10:45am | Break |
10:45am – 11:30am | Featured Speaker The Invisible Reality: Future Implications of Where America Really Goes to College Dr. Gail Mellow, President, LaGuardia Community College |
11:30 am – 12:00pm | Featured Speaker A College for the Future of Work Stephen Kosslyn, Founder, Foundry College |
12:00 pm – 1:30pm | Sponsored Lunch Breakouts |
1:30pm – 2:15pm | Workshops
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2:15 pm – 3:00pm | Featured Speaker Introducing the 2019 Higher Education Market Update: Sizing Up Local, Regional and National Opportunity Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA |
3:00 pm – 3:15pm | Break |
3:15pm – 4:15pm | EdTalks Sydney Chaffee, Teacher of the Year Shantell Martin, Artist |
4:15pm – 5:00pm | Closing Keynote Speaker Pathways to the Workforce of the Future Michelle Weise, Chief Innovation Officer & SVP, Workforce Strategies at Strada Education Network |
5:15pm – 5:30pm | Innovation Awards Presentation Patrick Vogt, CEO, ACT | NRCCUA Cara Quackenbush, Eduventures Vice President of Research at ACT | NRCCUA |
5:30 pm – 7:30pm | Innovation Awards Reception |
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2019 |
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7:30am – 8:15am | OPM Breakfast Breakout Piecing Together the Online Program Management Puzzle: Buy, Build, or Both? Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principle Analyst, ACT | NRCCUA |
7:30am – 8:30am | General Breakfast |
8:30am – 8:40am | Day 3 Welcome Todd Boullion, Chief Marketing Officer, ACT | NRCCUA |
8:40am – 9:30am | Keynote Speaker Courage in Times of Crisis Mitch Landrieu, Former Mayor, New Orleans, LA |
9:30am – 10:00am | Featured Speaker Trump, ED and HEA: An Update Michael Goldstein, Senior Council, Cooley LLP Goldie Blumenstyk, Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education |
10:00am – 10:15am | Break |
10:15am – 10:45am | EdTalks Jill Buban, Unizin and Kate Greer, The Ohio State University Sarah Brachman, Student and Helen Bosch, Vista Life Innovations |
10:45am – 11:30am | Featured Q&A Creating a Trust Framework James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA Phil Komarny, Vice President of Innovation, Salesforce.com Huntington Lambert, Dean of the Division of Continuing Education and University Extension, Harvard University |
11:30am – 12:15pm | Closing Keynote Speaker Fireside Chat with Bill Belichick, Head Coach of the New England Patriots and Patrick Vogt, CEO, ACT | NRCCUA |
12:30pm – 1:30pm | Box Lunch/Departure |
2018 Agenda
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2018 | |
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6:00pm – 8:00pm | Registration and Opening Reception Intercontinental Boston Waterfront Hotel |
THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2018 |
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7:30am – 8:30am | Registration and Breakfast |
8:30am – 8:40am | Welcome and Agenda Review Day 2 Morning: Demand and Enrollment Drivers Day 2 Afternoon: Enhancing the Student Experience Day 3 Morning: Tracking Student Outcomes Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at NRCCUA |
8:40am – 9:00am | Opening Remarks Patrick Vogt, CEO, NRCCUA |
9:00am – 10:00am | Opening Keynote Presentation Leadership in Turbulent Times Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer-Prize Award Winning Author and Presidential Historian |
10:00am – 10:15am | EdTalks The Value of Engaging with Unfamiliar Perspectives Zachary R. Wood |
10:15am – 11:00am | Keynote Presentation Higher Education and the American Dream: Fulfilling the Promise Lynn Pasquerella, President, AAC&U |
11:00am – 11:30am | Break |
11:30am – 12:00am | Keynote Presentation How Transparency in College Costs and Outcomes Drive Consumer Behavior Nick Ducoff, Co-Founder and CEO, Edmit |
12:00pm – 1:30pm | Sponsored Lunch Breakouts |
1:30pm – 2:15pm | Concurrent Workshops
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2:15pm – 3:00pm | Keynote Presentation Follow the Data: Transitioning from Millennial to Gen Z Kim Reid, Eduventures Principal Analyst at NRCCUA |
3:00pm – 3:30pm | Break |
3:30pm – 4:15pm | EdTalks Leveraging Strengths of Partners to Scale Globally: The Story of SNHU’s Global Education Movement Robert Hill and Tujiza Uwituze The Might of a Mission: Mobilizing Students to Graduate with A Major and A Mantra Tevin Ali |
4:15pm – 5:00pm | Keynote Presentation Transforming Higher Ed by Listening to Consumers Carol D'Amico, Executive Vice President, Mission Advancement and Philanthropy, Strada Education Network |
5:00pm – 5:30pm | Innovation Awards Presentation Patrick Vogt, CEO, NRCCUA Cara Quackenbush, Eduventures Vice President of Research at NRCCUA |
5:30pm – 7:30pm | Innovation Awards Reception |
FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2018 |
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7:30am – 8:15am | Breakfast Breakout AIR and Eduventures Joint Research: A Discussion of the 2018 National Survey of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at NRCCUA Kelle Parsons, CBE researcher at AIR Ceri Jones, Director of Analyst Relations, Ellucian |
7:30am – 8:30am | General Breakfast |
8:30am – 9:30am | Keynote Presentation Does Online Higher Education Reduce Inequality? Exploring the Geography of the Market Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at NRCCUA |
9:30am – 10:15am | Q&A Session Trump, ED, and HEA: What to Expect Michael Goldstein, Founder and Senior Counsel, Cooley LLP Doug Lederman, Editor, Inside Higher Ed |
10:15am – 10:30am | Break |
10:30am – 11:15am | EdTalks A Learning Ecosystem Designed for the Future of Work Beth Bean and Andrew Hanson, Strada Education Network How I was able to live. And learn. Andi Phillip, former Capella Student |
11:15am – 12:00pm | Technology Discussion Data Management Strategies ≠ Information Oriented Culture Justin Sloan, Vice President, Institutional Effectiveness & Planning, Chief Data Officer, St. Edward's University |
12:00pm – 12:45pm | Closing Keynote Presentation Intergenerational Mobility and Higher Education in America: New Findings from Big Data John Friedman, Director, Equality of Opportunity Project, Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University |
12:45pm – 1:30pm | Box Lunch/Departures |
Keynote Speaker

Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. He led the creation of EJI’s highly acclaimed cultural sites, the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in 2018. Mr. Stevenson’s work has won him numerous awards, including 40 honorary doctorates, the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize, and the ABA Medal, the American Bar Association’s highest honor. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government and the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy.