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Featured Speakers Samuel Flanigan Graduate and Professional Schools Luncheon Presenter Samuel Flanigan is the Deputy Director of Data Research for the America's Best Colleges and the America's Best Graduate Schools rankings both of which are published annually by U.S. News & World Report. Flanigan plays an active role in survey design, methodology changes, discipline research and monitoring data collection. He has been working full-time on both the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools publications since 1999. Flanigan has a B.A. in mathematics from the St. Peter's College at Oxford University. Shaun Travers Cultural Diversity Luncheon Presenter Shaun Travers is the Director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at the University of California, San Diego . An active representative of the bisexual community, Travers frequently speaks at and participates in forums supporting the diversity of many social justice movements. He co-leads the year-long UCSD Chancellor’s Undergraduate Diversity Leadership Institute, and presents diversity trainings in community with the Women’s Center and Cross-Cultural Center throughout campus. Prior to UCSD, Travers coordinated Women’s Development Programs and Advocacy Services for victims of sexual violence, as well as Judicial Services at Texas A&M University . Currently he sits on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood San Diego/Riverside Counties, the Board of Directors of the LGBT Community Center of San Diego, and is Coordinator of Support Services for the National Consortium of Directors of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Resources in Higher Education. Jean M. Twenge General Session Presenter Jean M. Twenge is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University . She received her B.A. in psychology and sociology, as well as her M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor . Her presentation focuses on her new book,Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before, published by Free Press. Since the 1930s, college students have taken psychological questionnaires measuring personality traits, attitudes, and behaviors. Twelve studies on over one million college students demonstrate the changes in the student population using this data. The trends include changes in anxiety, depression, self-esteem, locus of control, the need for social approval, assertiveness, stereotypically masculine traits, and sexual behavior and attitudes. Twenge will discuss these generational differences. David Conley General Session Presenter David Conley is Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership in the College of Education, and Founder and Director of the Center for Educational Policy Research (CEPR) at the University of Oregon. He is also Executive Director of the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that partners with CEPR on a range of projects and services. Currently, CEPR and EPIC have grants and contracts with national and state educational agencies and organizations to perform research on a variety of issue related to college readiness standards, high school-college articulation and transition, state high school exit examinations, and state adequacy funding models. General Session Presenter Suzanne Mettler is Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University , where she teaches American politics and public policy. Her presentation focuses on her new book, Soldiers to Citizens: The GI Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press 2005). While the G.I. Bill has long been heralded for fostering the middle class, Mettler finds that it also helped expand participation in American democracy during the postwar era. Drawing on extensive interviews and surveys with hundreds of members of the World War II generation, she shows that the Bill’s education and training provisions inspired beneficiaries to become active citizens thanks to whom memberships in civic organizations soared and levels of political activity peaked. The Bill communicated to veterans that government was for and about people like them, and they responded in turn. These effects spanned lines of class and race. In our current age of rising inequality and declining civic engagement, Soldiers to Citizens offers critical lessons about how public policy can make a difference. Mettler’s earlier book, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy, won the American Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award for the best book in 1998 on national policy. Mary Thompson-Jones General Session Presenter Mary Thompson-Jones joined the Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau as Branch Chief for Educational Information and Resources in August, 2005. She came to the bureau from the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, where she was Public Affairs Officer from 2002-2005. Prior to that, she was Public Affairs Officer in Montreal, from 2000-2002, serving all of Eastern Canada . She has also served in public diplomacy positions in Sarajevo, Prague, and Madrid . She has held a variety of domestic assignments in Washington, D.C., including Deputy Staff Director, Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Senior Press Officer, Bureau of European Affairs, and Deputy Policy and Coordination Officer, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. She is the recipient of three Meritorious Honor Awards, and speaks Spanish, French and Czech. Before joining the Foreign Service, she was an editorial writer for the Providence Journal and Los Angeles Daily News. She holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, and bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Journalism from California State University.
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