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Featured Speakers
Plenary Speaker Mark Russell
Opening General Session
Wednesday, February 28 · 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
"Comedy, Music, Bribery, and Conspiracy"
Whenever Mark Russell is down in the dumps, he opens the newspaper and immediately cheers up. Practically everything he sees strikes him as funny. Some days, he says, the jokes jump off the pages and write themselves.
Mark plays off the day's headlines, performing stand-up comedy while accompanying himself on the piano. He spent 30 years on public television as host of the "Mark Russell Comedy Specials," where it was consistently among the top-rated shows on that network. With impeccable timing, twinkling eyes and shock-of-recognition insights into American politics, he draws merriment from the pomposity of public life.
A native of Buffalo, NY, Mark Russell's first heroes were entertainers. Radio comedians like Fred Allen and Jack Benny had audiences screaming for satire. It seems that everyone was making fun of self-important people. Kenny Delmar was Senator Claghorn. Groucho Marx was Dr. Quackenbush. Bugs Bunny was Toscanini. Charlie Chaplin was Hitler.
Comic anarchy. Making fun of authority figures. Mark was inspired. He went out and earned the reputation of class clown, beginning in the fourth grade and maintained right through high school. What the faculty thought can only be imagined. But years later, when a scholarship at Canisius High School was endowed in his name, it was awarded to the student who showed "great wisdom and wit, but not necessarily in that order."
Like a lot of guys in those days, Mark Russell readily admits that he dodged the draft. He did it by joining the Marine Corps. The Few. The Proud. The Funny.
After serving his full hitch, he found himself in the smoke-filled bars of Washington, DC, singing his funny songs. When he got a job in a Capitol Hill bar the first thing he thought was "I've started at the bottom but I've managed to work my way down." He began knowing little about politics, but was an immediate hit because he could find humor in anything.
Around the time the New Frontier was invading Washington, Mark Russell invaded the Shoreham Hotel for a risky two-week gig. It lasted for twenty years. The Marquee Lounge became "the place" where politicians would come to hear Mark's jokes about what they had done that day.
Today his syndicated column is enjoyed all over America, as are his CDs, tapes and videos. Mark Russell is on the road most of the year performing at colleges, conventions and in theaters.
And his answer to the frequently asked question, "Do you have any writers?" is "Oh, yes...I have 535 writers. One hundred in the Senate and 435 in the House of Representatives."
Plenary Speaker Bill Moyers
Closing General Session
Saturday, March 3 · 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
"Whatever Happened to the American Dream?"
- Emmy Award Winning Broadcast Journalist
- Bestselling Author
- Host of Moyers on America
- Host of the seven-part special series Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason
- Host of NOW with Bill Moyers (2002 — 2004)
Reporter and commentator on contemporary American history and culture, Bill Moyers brilliantly exposes the nuanced textures in the fabric of American life. A gifted storyteller through words and images, Moyers reveals to us the spiritual, emotional, and historical sides of our culture through his award-winning films and best-selling books.
During his long career in broadcast journalism, Bill Moyers has been recognized as one of the unique voices of his generation. Beginning as a cub reporter for the Marshall News Messenger at the age of l6, he went on to serve as a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, a special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, the publisher of Newsday, a reporter and anchor for public television, senior correspondent for the distinguished documentary series CBS Reports, and senior news analyst for the CBS Evening News. Together with his wife and creative partner Judith Davidson Moyers, he formed Public Affairs Television, which produced such path-breaking series as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, The Language of Life, The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith, Genesis, On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying, Close to Home: Addiction and Recovery, America's First River, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, NOW with Bill Moyers, and Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason. Among their acclaimed documentaries are Earth on Edge, Trade Secrets, Trading Democracy, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, All Our Children, Free Speech for Sale, and Surviving the Good Times. A new series, Moyers on America, premiered in October 2006 with three investigative documentaries.
During his more than 30 years in the media, he has received more than 30 Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, two prestigious Gold Baton awards from the Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award, nine Peabody awards, and three George Polk Awards, including the Career Achievement Award. In the first year it was awarded, he received the prestigious Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute.
His several books include such best-sellers as: Listening to America, The Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, The Language of Life, and, most recently, Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times.
He is president of The Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.
Philip Altbach
General Session Presenter
Friday, March 2 · 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
"Globalization: What It Really Means for Higher Education"
Philip G. Altbach is Monan Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. He serves as the Distinguished Scholar Leader for the Fulbright New Century Scholars program in 2005-2006. He has been a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He is a guest professor of Peking University in China. Dr. Altbach is coeditor of the International Handbook of Higher Education (Springer, 2006) and author of Comparative Higher Education, among other books.
Bryan Cunningham
Graduate and Professional Schools Luncheon Presenter
Tuesday, March 1 · 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.
"Information Security: From the White House Situation Room to the College Classroom"
Bryan Cunningham (JD, Certified in NSA IAM) has extensive experience in information security, intelligence, and homeland security matters, both in senior U.S. Government posts and the private sector. Cunningham, now a corporate information and homeland security consultant and Principal at the Denver law firm of Morgan & Cunningham LLC, most recently served as Deputy Legal Advisor to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. At the White House, Cunningham drafted key portions of the Homeland Security Act, and was deeply involved in the formation of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, as well as numerous Presidential Directives and regulations relating to cybersecurity.
He is a former senior CIA Officer, federal prosecutor, and founding co-chair of the ABA CyberSecurity Privacy Task Force, and, in January 2005, was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for his work on information issues. Cunningham has been named to the National Academy of Science Committee on Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures, and is a Senior Counselor at APCO Worldwide Consulting, as well as a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. He is the principal author of the legal and ethics chapter of the recent authoritative textbook "Network Security Evaluation: Using the NSA IEM."
Carol Twigg
General Session Presenter
Thursday, March 1 · 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
"Improving Learning and Reducing Costs: New Models for Online Learning"
Dr. Carol A. Twigg serves as President and CEO of the National Center for Academic Transformation. The Center serves as a resource for colleges and universities, providing leadership in how effective use of information technology can improve student learning while reducing instructional costs.
From 1993 to 1998, Twigg served as Vice President of Educom (now EDUCAUSE), a national association of higher education institutions dedicated to the effective use of information technology. At Educom, she advanced the need for new models of student-centered, online teaching and learning, now commonly accepted in higher education.
Twigg received her B.A. from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. During the course of her career, she has become known as a strong advocate for the benefits of using technology in higher education. She is seen as an authority on a range of topics including the impact of information and communications technology on restructuring higher education, the need to improve productivity in higher education, and the process of engaging college faculty in using instructional technology effectively. In 1995, Newsweek named Twigg one of the 50 most influential thinkers in the information revolution, and in 2003, she was the recipient of the prestigious McGraw Prize in Education.
Robert W. Wendover
General Session Presenter
Thursday, March 1 · 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
"Succession Planning and the New Generations"
Robert W. Wendover is the Managing Director of the Center for Generational Studies. Over the past twenty years, he has presented customized training and keynotes for industry, education, and government. He specialized in assisting organizations with inter-generational relations and other management issues.
Wendover has authored the Center's newly released training curriculum, Generations: Understanding Age Diversity in Today's Workplace. His books include On Cloud Nine: Weathering the Challenge of Many Generations in the Workplace; Smart Hiring; Two Minute Motivation; Handpicked: Finding and Hiring the Best Employees, and the soon-to-be-released Hey Dude! The Manager's Short Course on the Emerging Generations.
Wendover has degrees in psychology, education, and industrial arts.
G. Kay Jacks
General Session Presenter
Friday, March 2 · 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
"Department of Education Update"
G. Kay Jacks is the General Manager, Application, Operations and Delivery Services for Federal Student Aid (FSA) at the U.S. Department of Education. Her responsibilities include: helping families in America to learn about student financial aid; processing 14 million applications for aid via the paper/Web FAFSA; managing $32 billion in Pell and Supplemental Grants, Direct and Perkins Loans, and Federal Work Study, and $790 million in the new Academic Competitiveness and National SMART Grants; managing five call centers that serve millions of students; and providing training to 6,000 schools
Before joining FSA, Jacks served as the Executive Director of Enrollment Services at Colorado State University, where she coordinated admissions, financial aid, student loans, student employment, records, and registration.
Professionally, Jacks was also chairperson of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) from 1988-89 and was honored with its Distinguished Service Award for Mentoring, Leadership, and Commitment to Diversity in 1990. She has received awards from the Department of Education, and the organizations and institutions at which she has worked.
David Bergeron
General Session Presenter
Friday, March 2 · 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
"Department of Education Update"
David Bergeron is the Director of Policy and Budget Development for the Office of Postsecondary Education at the United States Department of Education. In this role, Bergeron works with Congressional members and their staffs and the higher education community to develop legislative proposals for the Department's postsecondary education programs. His office is also responsible for developing regulations and other policy guidance to implement enacted legislation. In that capacity, he has worked on four reauthorizations of the Higher Education Act, the Taxpayer-Teacher Relief Act, and numerous Budget Reconciliaton Acts.
Most recently, Bergeron and his staff worked on the provisions of the Higher Education Reconciliaton Act, which changed numerous financial aid provisions, but in particular, created two new academic-based grants for needy students–the Academic Competitiveness Grant and National SMART Grant. He is most proud of the Department's prompt action in providing regulatory relief and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the students and schools impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
David L. Evans
Cultural Diversity Luncheon Presenter
Thursday, March 1 · 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
David L. Evans is a native of Phillips County, Arkansas, and holds degrees in electrical engineering from Tennessee State University and Princeton. He has worked for Harvard College since 1970 in multiple roles, including as an advisor to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations since its creation in 1981. He currently serves as Senior Admissions Officer for Harvard College.
Evans has helped to select 37 Harvard classes, and during his tenure more than 15 times the number of African-American students have matriculated than had in the previous 334 years of Harvard's history. In 2002, he received the highest honor that Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences confers on an administrator, the FAS Administrative Prize. Before coming to Harvard, he worked in Huntsville, Alabama on the Saturn/Apollo Project that landed a man on the moon in 1969.
Evans will speak about his experiences and insights that have come from a remarkable career in higher education administration at one of the nation's oldest and most respected institutions.
Wick Sloane
Unit-Record Student Record System: A Debate
Thursday, March 1 · 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Wick Sloane is a columnist for Inside Higher Ed and an adjunct professor of expository writing at Bunker Hill Community College. During 2006, Sloane was a Research Fellow for The Center for College Affordability and Productivity, for which he published a paper on "U.S. Tax Policy, Research Grants, and Higher Education: The Undebated Billions." In 2005, he was Visiting Fellow, Higher Education Finance, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, for a project on increasing college access for low-income students.
Sloane has had responsibility for technology and data systems in executive positions in financial services. He argues that higher education is making a huge error in dismissing a central unit-records database so quickly. The Depository Trust Company, owned by banks and securities firms, offers an example of a parallel system that improves service without 'Big Brother' problems. Sloane has a degree in English from Williams College and an M.B.A. from Yale. He is at work on a book on solutions to the plight of low-income students seeking higher education in the U.S. today.
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