Agenda

Thursday, December 1

Afternoon Travel to Palm Beach
6:45 p.m. Reception (all guests-casual dress)

7:15 p.m.

Informal dinner (all guests-casual dress)

Friday, December 2

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast (all guests-casual dress)

8:30 a.m.

Greetings/introduction

 

Panel One: Tackling Campus-Level Obstacles to Innovation
David Breneman – University of Virginia
Bill Green - University of Miami
Vincent Manno – Olin College
Claudia Neuhauser – University of Minnesota - Rochester

  Panel Two: Rethinking Accreditation
Gib Hentschke – University of Southern California
Sally Johnstone - Western Governors University
Anne Neal – American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Burck Smith - StraighterLine
noon - 12:45 p.m.

Working Lunch (meeting participants only)

1 p.m.

Panel Three: Streamlining State and Federal Regulations
Dom Brewer – University of Southern California
Andrew Kelly – American Enterprise Institute
Andy Rosen – Kaplan, Inc.
Trace Urdan – Wunderlich Securities

2:45 - 7 p.m.

Recreation. Time on your own

7 p.m.

Dinner (adult guests only-business casual dress)

  Speaker: Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College

Saturday, December 3

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast (all guests-casual dress)

8:30 a.m.

Panel Four: Improving Incentives to Boost Academic Productivity
Mark Bauerlein – Emory University
Will Baumol – New York University
Charles Kolb – Committee for Economic Development
Roger Schonfeld – Ithaka S+R
Adrian Wooldridge – The Economist

  Panel Five: Filling Information Gaps about Student-Learning and Job-Market Outcomes
Mark Schneider- American Institutes for Research
Louis Soares – Center for American Progress
Candace Thille – Carnegie Mellon University
Russ Whitehurst - Brookings Institution
noon - 1 p.m.

Lunch (meeting participants only)

  Speaker: Shai Reshef, Founder and President, University of the People
1:15 p.m.

Panel Six: Overcoming Barriers to Taking Innovative Models to Scale
Lloyd Armstrong- University of Southern California
Rick Hess – American Enterprise Institute
Josh Jarrett – Gates Foundation
John Katzman – 2Tor
Peter Stokes - Eduventures

2:30 p.m. Wrap up and Next Steps

2:45 p.m.

Retreat Officially Concludes

Dinner

Participants and their guests are on their own for dinner. A list of local restaurants will be provided.

Sunday,  December 4

7 - 9 a.m.

Breakfast Buffet (all guests-casual dress)

Departure