“Democracy and Higher Education: The Future of Engagement”

 

Invitational Colloquium Participants

 

The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and the Kettering Foundation are collaborating to host an Invitational Colloquium of 33 academic and community leaders focused on the theme of Democracy and Higher Education: The Future of Engagement. These leaders in civic engagement and higher education include:

 

• Derek Barker, Kettering Foundation
• Rick Battistoni, Providence College
• Harry Boyte, University of Minnesota
• Barbara Burch, Western Kentucky University
• Patti Clayton, North Carolina State University
• Jeremy Cohen, Pennsylvania State University
• Elizabeth Coleman, Bennington College
• Julie Ellison, University of Michigan
• Eric Fretz, University of Denver
• Dwight Giles, Jr., University of Massachusetts Boston
• Ira Harkavy, University of Pennsylvania
• Matthew Hartley, University of Pennsylvania
• Beverly Hogan, Tougaloo College
• Elizabeth Hollander, Tufts University
• Lorlene Hoyt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Peter Levine, University of Maryland
• Nicholas Longo, Miami University
• David Mathews, Kettering Foundation
• George Mehaffy, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
• Caryn McTighe Musil, Association of American Colleges and Universities
• KerryAnn O'Meara, University of Maryland
• Scott Peters, Cornell University
• William Plater, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• John W. Presley, Illinois State University
• John Puckett, University of Pennsylvania
• Eugene Rice, Association of American Colleges and Universities
• John Saltmarsh, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Beverly Daniel Tatum, Spelman College
• Nancy Thomas, Democracy Imperative, University of New Hampshire
• Deborah Wadsworth, Bennington College
• Byron White, Xavier University
• Deborah Witte, Kettering Foundation
• Edward Zlotkowski, Bentley College

 

The Colloquium will take place at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio, February
26-27, 2008.

 

This project is possible due to support from the Kettering Foundation, the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania and is part of NERCHE’s
20th-anniversary year events.

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