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CRITICAL ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE

BUILDING A SMARTER UNIVERSITYBig Data, Innovation and Ingenuity

October 29-30, 2013 • New York City

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Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Welcome to New York City for the third in a series of conferencesorganized by The State University of New York (SUNY) to bring together national thought leaders to examine, discuss, and debatecritical issues confronting higher education.

This year we set out to explore the ever-expanding world of Big Data, the billions of data points being generated every minutethat are beginning to shape the way we understand our world in

real-time. These digital footprints are beginning to show us patterns we could neverhave dreamt of capturing before.

At the same time, higher education is facing a perfect storm: the need to keep costslow, access high, and ensure success for all of our current and prospective students.

It is time for higher education to turn the digital mirror on itself and SUNY is well-positioned to take a leadership role in exploring how the tidal wave of data surrounding us can be used to build smarter universities by better insulating the student pipeline,expanding the boundaries of our research enterprise, and enhancing our physical and digital infrastructure. As a system of 64 campuses and nearly half a million students,SUNY has the opportunity to take the benefits of big data to scale in ways not possible for most other educational entities.

The potential for big data to revolutionize the world of higher education seems endless, and we look forward to working with many partners to better understand the work already being done and dreaming of what can come next.

We are grateful to the more than 65 speakers who have traveled across the country to be with us and to our sponsors, Xerox, McGraw Hill, EMC2, Content Archiving Solutions, TIAA-CREF, Cisco, and ING for their willingness to take on this challengingtopic with us. We hope that this conference starts a conversation, spurs innovativethinking, and begins to build a data-driven university. Thank you for joining us.

Sincerely,

Nancy L. Zimpher, ChancellorThe State University of New York

TUESDAY OCTOBER 29, 2013

8:00 - 9:00AMREGISTRATION/CONTINENTAL BREAKFASTSponsored by Cisco - Gallery Foyer 4th Floor

9:00 - 10:30AMWELCOME AND OPENING PLENARYGallery Ballroom 4th Floor

10:45 - 12:00PMCONCURRENT BREAKOUTS West Ballroom and Studios 2nd Floor

1. Improving the Student Experience: Focusing on Learning Outcomes

2. Enhancing the Research Enterprise: Utilizing Big Data in Research

3. Using Big Data to: Maximize Public Value Through Community Partnerships

4. Getting the Job Done: Lessons Learned From Big Data

12:00 - 1:45PMLUNCHEON PLENARYGallery Ballroom 4th Floor

Data Scientist: the Sexiest Job of the 21st CenturySponsored by EMC2/Content Archiving Solutions

2:00 - 3:15PMCONCURRENT BREAKOUTSWest Ballroom and Studios 2nd Floor

1. Improving the Student Experience: How Big Data Can Influence Student Affairs to Spur Student Engagement

2. Enhancing the Research Enterprise: Research on Big Data

3. Using Big Data to: Advance University Infrastructure

4. Getting the Job Done: How Big Data is Changingthe Face of Remediation and College Readiness

3:45 - 5:30PMAFTERNOON PLENARYGallery Ballroom 4th Floor

Tapping Big Data to Strengthen the Education Pipeline

TUESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 29, 2013

6:00 - 8:00PMCONFERENCE RECEPTION Sponsored by XeroxThe New York Academy of Sciences

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30, 2013

8:00 - 9:00AMCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST/BOOK SIGNINGGallery Foyer 4th Floor

SUNY Critical Issues, Volume 2 Higher Education Systems 3.0: Harnessing Systemness, Delivering Performance

9:00 - 10:30AMMORNING PLENARY Gallery Ballroom 4th Floor

The Cautionary Side of Big Data


1. Improving the Student Experience: Big Data’s Impact on Admissions and Recruitment

2. Enhancing the Research Enterprise: Big Data in Entrepreneurial Endeavors

3. Using Big Data to: Shape Academic Planning and Strategy- What Big Data Tells Us About Tomorrow’s Workforce and How to Match the Future Need

4. Getting the Job Done: How Big Data is Driving Workforce and Economic Development

12:30 - 2:00PMCLOSING PLENARY/LUNCHEON Gallery Ballroom 4th Floor

Big Data: A Knowledge RevolutionHow will Big Data Transform Higher EducationSponsored by McGraw Hill Education

2:30PM9/11 Memorial Tour

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

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AGENDATUESDAY OCTOBER 29, 2013

8:00 - 9:00AMREGISTRATION/CONTINENTAL BREAKFASTGallery Foyer 4th Floor

9:00 - 10:30AMWELCOME AND OPENING PLENARYGallery Ballroom 4th Floor

WelcomeH. Carl McCall, ChairmanSUNY Board of Trustees

Introductory RemarksNancy L. Zimpher, ChancellorThe State University of New York (SUNY)

Key Note AddressHarper Reed - Former CTO, Obama for America

Session ChairJason Lane - SUNY

Big data is arguably this year’s buzzword, but what does it really mean, how can we harness its power, and whatcan higher education gain from this knowledge revolution?Can we learn from other sectors and begin building a truly data-driven university?


1. Improving the Student Experience: Focusing on Learning OutcomesWest Ballroom AB

This session will focus on how we can begin to look at data as the digital pathway with which we can ensure student success. How can data points bring us closer to our ultimate goal; better serving our students.

Moderator:Juliette Price - SUNY

Phil Regier - Arizona State University Online

Timothy Renick - Georgia State

Clare van den Blink – Cornell University

Ellen Wagner - WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies

2. Enhancing the Research Enterprise: Utilizing Big Data in ResearchStudio 3/4

This session will focus on the uses of big data to accelerate and expand the research portfolios handled byuniversities. Hear about current and future projects thatrely on massive data to get the job done.

Moderator:Ken O’Brien - The College at Brocport (SUNY)

Thomas Furlani - University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Richard Janikowski - Strategic City Solutions

Matthew Jockers - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dean Krafft - VIVO

3. Using Big Data to: Maximize Public Value ThroughCommunity PartnershipsStudio 6

How can the social sector use big data in creative innovative solutions to social issues? This session willfocus on the role of data in community partnerships andcross-sector outcomes.

Lead Panelist: Meghan Cook - University at Albany (SUNY)

Maria Gotsch - Partnership Fund for New York City

Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Citigroup, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, SUNY Levin Institute Senior Fellow

4. Getting the Job Done: Lessons Learned From Big DataWest Ballroom C

Roll up your sleeves for this session and learn the insidescoop on the “how” of big data. This session will focus onseveral successful uses of big data as well as the valuablelessons learned.

Moderator: Johanna Duncan-Poitier - SUNY

Emily Coleman - Lancome/L’Oreal

R.G. Conlee - Xerox

Brian Ford – Cisco

Vivien Riefberg - McKinsey & Company

3BUILDING A SMARTER UNIVERSITY

AGENDA12:00 - 1:45PMLUNCHEON PLENARY:Gallery Ballroom 4th Floor

DATA SCIENTIST: THE SEXIEST JOB OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Tomorrow’s knowledge economy calls for qualified datascientists who can understand and translate the world ofbig data into everyday operations. The role of the universityis clear–build the best training grounds for these new scientists to build a data-driven workforce.

Moderator:Scott Jaschik - Inside Higher Ed

Shirley Malcom - American Association for the Advancement of Science

Michael Rappa - North Carolina State University

Harper Reed - Former CTO, Obama for America

Vivek Wadwha - Singularity University

2:00 - 3:15PMCONCURRENT BREAKOUTS:West Ballroom and Studios 2nd Floor

1. Improving the Student Experience: How Big Data CanInfluence Student Affairs to Spur Student EngagementWest Ballroom AB

We all know that without strong student engagement, we don’t see our students succeed or complete. How canbig data revolutionize the way we reach students to makesure we see all of them cross the finish line?

Lead Panelist:Linda Baer - i4Solutions

Fred Fonseca - Penn State University

Lisa Foss - St. Cloud State University

Gregory Fulkerson - College at Oneonta (SUNY)

Steve Gallo - University at Buffalo (SUNY)

2. Enhancing the Research Enterprise: Research on Big DataStudio 3/4

In addition to its use in advancing research, what can research on big data tell us about the field and its direction,and lead us to new, exciting ventures never before explored?

Moderator:Timothy Killeen - SUNY

Michael Bender - Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Elizabeth Bruce - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gali Halevi - Elsevier

3. Using Big Data to: Advance University InfrastructureWest Ballroom C

The vision of universities as four ivy-covered walls is antiquated; how do we use big data to build a smarter university built for the needs of today and more importantly, tomorrow?

Moderator:Kevin Kinser - University of Albany (SUNY)

John Cheslock - Pennsylvania State University

Jennifer Foutty - Kuali

Mitch Leventhal - SUNY

Rebecca Martin - National Association of System Heads

4. Getting the Job Done: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Remediation and College ReadinessStudio 6

College readiness is critical to a student’s future; how canwe better serve those in need of remediation to optimizestudent success for all?

Moderator:Jay Quaintance - SUNY

David Coleman - The College Board

Peter Crosta - Teachers College Columbia University

Bernadine Fong - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching


AGENDA3:45 - 5:30PMAFTERNOON PLENARY:

TAPPING BIG DATA TO STRENGTHEN THE EDUCATION PIPELINEGallery Ballroom 4th Floor

The use of data in the social sector has revolutionized the way we measure outcomes and performance. With increased alignment and data sharing, can all systems of education be joined together to create a leak-free education pipeline, where accountability is everyone’s top priority?

Moderator: Amy Scott - Marketplace

Jeff Edmondson - Strive National Network

Daniel Greenstein - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

David Kuntz - Knewton

Rebecca Petersen - edX

TUESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 29, 2013

6:00 - 8:00PMCONFERENCE RECEPTIONThe New York Academy of Sciences

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30, 2013

8:00 - 9:00AMCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST/BOOK SIGNINGGallery Foyer 4th Floor

Book Signing: SUNY Critical Issues, Volume 2 Highr Education Systems 3.0 Harnessing Systemness, Delivering Performance

With Editors: Jason E. Lane and D. Bruce Johnstone

9:00 - 10:30AMMORNING PLENARY:

THE CAUTIONARY SIDE OF BIG DATAGallery Ballroom 4th Floor

While big data may be heralded as the new frontier, there are limitations to what this wave of information can achieve and the drawbacks to this movement are worth exploring. In this session, the panelists will examine potential pitfalls of data.

Moderator: Elizabeth Bringsjord - SUNY

Anthony Belfiore - JP Morgan Chase and Company

Michael Chui - McKinsey & Company

Rebecca Costa - The Costa Group

Steve Hirdt - Elias Sports Bureau

10:45 - 12:00PMCONCURRENT BREAKOUTS:West Ballroom and Studios 2nd Floor

1. Improving the Student Experience: Big Data’s Impact on Admissions and RecruitmentWest Ballroom C

Recruitment and admissions are the first steps of a student’s journey through their educational experience in higher ed. How can big data optimize this process andensure better outcomes for students and institutions?

Lead Panelist: Jay Goff - St. Louis University

Rajika Bhandari - Institute of International Education

Chris Shaffer - Shawnee State University

Ben Wildavsky - Rockefeller Institute of Government(SUNY)


2. Enhancing the Research Enterprise: Big Data in Entrepreneurial EndeavorsStudio 6

How does big data play a role in the creation of start-upsand other entrepreneurial endeavors and how can universities better harness this power?

Lead Panelist: Vivek Wadwha - Singularity University

Lee Fisher - CEOs for Cities

Thomas Moebus - SUNY Levin Institute

J.R. Robles - Empire State College (SUNY)

3. Using Big Data to: Shape Academic Planning and Strategy - What Big Data Tells Us About Tomorrow’s Workforce and How to Match the Future NeedWest Ballroom AB

With better data and analysis of what tomorrow’s workforce will look like, how do universities respond and become flexible to the needs of tomorrow?

Moderator: Jim Malatras - SUNY

Tristan Denley - Tennessee Board of Regents

Sean Gallagher - Northeastern University

Lisa Montiel - SUNY

Brian Prescott - Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

4. Getting the Job Done: How Big Data is Driving Workforce and Economic Development Studio 3/4

Join this session to hear the on-the-ground analysis of how big data is driving the knowledge economy and the critical role that universities play in developing and supporting the data analytics workforce.

Lead Panelist: Richard Rodts - IBM

John Jahnke - Pivotal

Naveen Sharma - Xerox

Hao Wang - SUNY

12:30 - 2:00PMCLOSING PLENARY/LUNCHEON:

BIG DATA: A KNOWLEDGE REVOLUTION

HOW WILL BIG DATA TRANSFORM HIGHER EDUCATIONGallery Ballroom 4th Floor

As we focus more intently on access, completion, and success, how does big data better inform our decisionmaking, transform our existing infrastructure, and redefinethe modern university? How can higher education be themodel of success the race to harness big data?

System Moderator:Jason Lane - SUNY

Dr. Ulrik Christensen - Area9

Francisco Cigarroa - University of Texas

Katharine Frase - IBM

Alfred Spector - Google

2:30PM9/11 MEMORIAL TOUR

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AbbegailKatherine Brown

Abbegail Brownis a student atCayuga Commu-nity College,pursuing an associates degree in Liberal Arts &Human Serv-

ices with a concentration in Psychology.She hopes to earn a Doctorate in psy-chology and contribute valuable knowl-edge and research to the realms ofadolescent psychology, biopsychologyand neuropsychology. She tutors in theCenter for Academic Success at Cayugain writing and psychology and enjoys theinteractions she has with students. Sheis enrolled in the Honors Study programat Cayuga and has completed multipleresearch projects in psychology. She ispassionate about academics and thestudy of psychology because it gives her the freedom to understand the worldin a logical and creative way.

Dane Marco Di Cesare

Dane Marco DiCesare is a thirdyear doctoralscholar pursu-ing a degree inSpecial Educa-tion at the University atBuffalo. He is

the recipient of the Leadership Grant—Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow to Work ina Digital Age. Dane’s research interestsare in developing digital tools to increasewriting achievement for students withlearning disabilities. He is in the processof earning two advanced certificates—a statistical analysis certificate from theCounseling and Educational PsychologyDepartment and a certificate of new literacies from the Learning and Instruc-tion Department at UB.

Dane has presented at state and nationalconferences, has co-authored one publi-

CLASS OF 2013: STUDENT FELLOWS IN BIG DATA Please join us in welcoming the Class of 2013, a group of eight students from The State Universityof New York (SUNY) who are joining this year’sconference as fellows in big data. These studentswere selected from our nearly 463,000 studentsby their campus provosts, due to their academicexcellence, extracurricular involvement, and careerinterests.

Harvard Business Review has stated that jobs surrounding data science – the ability to manageand analyze massive amounts of data being generated – will be among the most important professions in the coming decades. SUNY takes its role seriously as a training ground for futureleaders in this area. We’ve selected these studentsfor their interest in using big data in their academicand professional pursuits and we know we will see them join the ranks of the next groundbreakingdata scientists.

Their interests span the disciplines of healthcare,computer science, communication, finance, math,and education, and their dedication to their fields ofstudy could not be more apparent. We hope youfind some time to spend with our fellows and allowthem to explore your expertise and vision for themany uses of big data.

Please join us in welcoming these future data scientists to this year’s conference!

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CLASS OF 2013: STUDENT FELLOWS IN BIG DATA

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cation in the April 2013 issue of theJournal of Special Education Technology(Multimodal Composition: A Review of theLiterature), co-authored two publicationsawaiting review (iPad, Therefore, iAm:Assistive Technology Needs for a Studentwith Dysgraphia; Connecting WithoutFear: Media Consumption by Sexual Minority Youth), and is currently prepar-ing three manuscripts for publication.

Sandra Gothard

Sandra is cur-rently a secondyear Ph.D stu-dent at the University atBuffalo Schoolof Nursing. Herprofessional career began atNorthwestern

Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Uni-versity, Chicago, Illinois in perioperativenursing. Her current role is RegionalAdministrative Director of PerioperativeServices at Bassett Medical Center. TheBassett Health Care Network system,ranked one of the top 100 most inte-grated systems in the nation, offers allspecialties and phases of care, over 400 full time providers in an employedmodel, Bassett-Columbia UniversityMedical School, and the Bassett Re-search Institute. Her research interestinclude exploring the extent to which sociodemographic and psychosocial fac-tors could influence the state of obesityin the rural, female, adult population.

Wang Liao

Wang Liao is adoctoral studentin the Depart-ment of Com-munication atCornell Univer-sity. His currentresearch relatesto communalrisk information

sharing and knowledge sharing in socialmedia and organizational contexts. In

general, his research interest lies on online social dynamic, community for-mation, and knowledge sharing, with anetwork perspective. He received hismaster degree in new media study at Tsinghua University, China, and hisbachelor degree in advertising at Xiamen University, China.

Paul Vroman

Paul is pursuinga bachelor’s degree in com-puter scienceand mathemat-ics. Maintaininghis standing onthe Dean’s List,Paul expects tograduate this

December from SUNY Old Westbury.Paul tutors at Old Westbury in computerscience and technology as well as work-ing with other students in the program.

Erika Wilson

Erika Wilson isa junior at theState Universityof New York at Oswego. She majors in Applied Mathematicsand minors inApplied Statis-

tics. After graduation, she hopes to at-tend Columbia University and obtain herMasters Degree in Statistics. Erika hasparticipated in seveal undergraduate research projects including imagerestoration and copula model fitting.

Terrence Wilson

Terrence Wilsonis a computerinformation sys-tems student atBuffalo State.He is slated toobtain his B.S.in the fall of2014, and hopes

to go on to pursue a master’s in busi-ness administration or master’s in man-agement information systems. Terrencefine-tunes his understanding of the C++language through educating others. He iscurrently a teaching assistant for the introto C++ programming course at BuffaloState, and also tutors in the subject area.He sharpens his technical and interper-sonal skills as a student technician forcomputing services at his school. Ter-rence’s professional growth is currentlyencouraged by serving as the AcademicExcellence chair on the National Societyof Black Engineers chapter executiveboard at Buffalo State. Terrence’s cur-rent academic and professional interests include systems analysis, project man-agement, and computer programming.

Eyub Yegen

Eyub Yegen is a senior doublemajoring in finance and applied mathe-matical eco-nomics, with aminor in appliedstatistics atSUNY Oswego,

and a part-time student at Harvard Uni-versity, Extension School. He is a sena-tor-at large for the Student GovernmentAssociation, the president of three lead-ing clubs at his home university, on theboard of the Strategic Advisory BoardCommittee, and on the School of Busi-ness Student Advisory Council. Lastsummer, Yegen was invited to become afinancial and statistical research internat the Turkish Grameen MicrofinanceProgram, where he assisted the organi-zation by analyzing their big data set.Yegen also worked on different SocialBusiness Projects with students fromBrown University and Cambridge Uni-versity. Currently, Yegen is working on three different research articles on microfinance with professors fromaround the world. His goal is to perusehis PhD in Finance to understand in-depth how to use financial tools tosolve socio-economic problems.

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Linda Baer

Dr. Linda Baerhas served overthirty years in numerous executive levelpositions inhigher educa-tion includingSenior ProgramOfficer in Post-

secondary Success for the Bill & MelindaGates Foundation, Senior Vice Chancel-lor for Academic and Student Affairs in the Minnesota State College and Uni-versity System, Senior Vice Presidentand Interim President at Bemidji StateUniversity. She served as the InterimVice President for Academic Affairs atMinnesota State University, Mankato.Currently, she is the Senior ProgramConsultant with i4Solutions. Her ongo-ing focus is to inspire leaders to inno-vate, integrate and implement solutionsto improve student success and trans-form institutions for the future.

Baer presents nationally in academic innovations, educational transformation,the development of alliances and part-nerships, the campus of the future,shared leadership and action analytics.She has co-presented workshops onbuilding organizational capacity in ana-lytics. Recent publications have been on smart change, shared leadership,successful partnerships, innovations inhigher education and analytics as a toolto improve student success. A recentbook chapter she co-authored includeBuilding the Capacity for Change, in Innovations in Higher Education and From Metrics to Analytics, Reporting to Action: Analytic’s Role in Changingthe Learning Environment in The GameChangers: Education and InformationTechnology. Transformation in an Age of Disruptive Change and Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics.

AnthonyBelfiore

Anthony is responsible forGlobal CyberSecurity atJPMC which includes IT security opera-tions, securityengineering,

and threat and vulnerability management.

Prior to joining JPMC, Anthony wasGlobal Head of IT Risk and SecurityServices at UBS. While at UBS, he alsoheld roles leading IT risk for the Invest-ment Bank and Retail Brokerage Lines of Business.

Prior to UBS, Anthony consulted acrossmultiple industries both public and private including FS, Healthcare, Manu-facturing, Energy, Tech, and Defense.During this time he worked at BoozAllen & Hamilton, KPMG and Ernst &Young.

Anthony received a BBA from LoyolaCollege Maryland concentration in Management Information Systems.

Michael Bender

Michael A. Bender is anassociate pro-fessor of com-puter science at Stony BrookUniversity. He is also the Chief Scientistat Tokutek, Inc,

an enterprise database company, whichhe co-founded in 2006.

Bender's research interests span theareas of data structures and algorithms,I/O-efficient computing, scheduling, andparallel computing. He has coauthoredover 100 articles on these and other topics. He has won several awards, including an R&D 100 Award and fourawards for graduate and undergraduateteaching.

Bender received his A.B. in AppliedMathematics from Harvard University in1992 and obtained a D.E.A. in ComputerScience from the Ecole Normale Su-perieure de Lyon, France in 1993. Hecompleted a Ph.D. on Scheduling Algo-rithms from Harvard University in 1998.He has held Visiting Scientist positionsat both MIT and King's College London.

Rajika Bhandari

Rajika Bhandari,Deputy VicePresident of Research andEvaluation atthe Institute ofInternationalEducation (IIE),provides strate-gic oversight of

IIE’s research and evaluation activitiesand leads the Open Doors and ProjectAtlas projects that measure internationalhigher education mobility. She also directs IIE’s Center for Academic Mobil-ity Research. Dr. Bhandari serves onseveral international advisory groups, isa frequent speaker and widely publishedauthor on global student mobility andhas written four books on the subject.She also leads program evaluations ofinternational scholarship and fellowshipprograms in higher education for IIE andfor external clients.

Prior to joining IIE in 2006, Dr. Bhandariwas a Senior Researcher at MPR Asso-ciates, an educational research firm inCalifornia that provides research andevaluation services to the U.S. Depart-ment of Education. She also served asthe Assistant Director for Evaluation atthe Mathematics and Science EducationNetwork at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to her work in international education research, Dr. Bhandari has a backgroundin international development with a special focus on gender and education in developing countries. She holds adoctoral degree in psychology fromNorth Carolina State University and a BA (Honors) in psychology from the University of Delhi, India.


SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES


ElizabethBringsjord

Dr. Elizabeth L. Bringsjordwas appointedInterim Provostand Vice Chan-cellor by theSUNY Trusteesas of August2013. She is the

chief academic officer for the SUNYsystem and supports the Chancellor andBoard of Trustees in carrying out theiroversight responsibilities. Dr. Bringsjordis temporarily stepping away from herwork as Vice Chancellor for AcademicPrograms and Assessment and ViceProvost. In that capacity, she leads theoffice responsible for system-wide aca-demic planning and policy development,academic program review and assess-ment, campus liaison activities, and regional accreditation support to individ-ual campuses. Dr. Bringsjord plays anactive role in transformational work nowunderway across SUNY’s 64 campusesin the areas of Academic Excellence, Innovative Instruction, Strategic Enroll-ment Planning, Student Mobility andSuccess, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,and Teacher Education. Noteworthyamong her contributions is a restructur-ing of the process by which SUNY approves new academic programs to ensure alignment with national exem-plars, best practices for student comple-tion and success, and State workforceneeds; the drafting of a wide range ofacademic policy guidance for campusleaders to ensure understanding of andalignment with Board of Trustee priori-ties; and leadership in the preparation of the University’s three most recentMaster Plans and the New York StateCommission on Higher Education’s final report and recommendations. Dr. Bringsjord holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Educational Psychology and Statisticsfrom the University at Albany, a Master’sin Nursing from the University of Penn-sylvania, and a B.S. in Nursing fromBoston University.

Elizabeth Bruce

Elizabeth Bruceis the ExecutiveDirector of theMIT Big DataInitiative atCSAIL. Eliza-beth co-foundedthe Big Data Initiative in2012. She is

responsible for developing industry-university collaborations to bridge thegap between research and commercial-ization. She joined MIT CSAIL in May2008 as Director of Industry Partner-ships, working with faculty to launchnew research initiatives at CSAIL cover-ing topics in big data, mobile, multicoreand cloud computing, health, AI, robot-ics, and security. Elizabeth founded theCSAIL Industry Affiliates Program (IAP)in 2008 and succesfully grew the pro-gram to over 40 member companies.Prior to CSAIL, Elizabeth held leadershiproles at the MIT Microphotonics Center,where she led an industry-academicTechnology Roadmapping project and atthe MIT Center for Biomedical Innova-tion, where she led the launch of a newBiomanufacturing initiative.

Elizabeth has held strategic managementand consulting positions in industry, including at Analog Devices Inc in thecorporate strategic projects group, andat Aberdeen Group where she built theOptical Communications practice.Trained as an engineer, Elizabeth holdsa Masters degree from MIT in Ocean Engineering and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University ofWashington. She enjoys climbing mountains and traveling.

John Cheslock

Dr. John J.Cheslock is director of theCenter for theStudy of HigherEducation andassociate pro-fessor in theEducation Poli-cies Studies

department at the Pennsylvania StateUniversity. Dr. Cheslock obtained hisPh.D. in Labor Economics from CornellUniversity, where he served as a research assistant at the Cornell HigherEducation Research Institute (CHERI).He previously served on the faculty ofthe Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona.He currently serves on the editorialboard of Review of Higher Educationand as a consulting editor for Research in Higher Education. Dr. Cheslock’s research focuses on how funding challenges affect public higher educa-tion institutions in a variety of areas. In recent research, he has examinedhow financial concerns influence institutional financial aid offerings, faculty compensation, intercollegiateathletics, and instructional productivity.His work examines key decisions facing individual higher education institutionsand often seeks to understand how institutional data can be better employedto support those decisions.

Ulrik JuulChristensen

Dr. Ulrik JuulChristensen is the CEO and foundingpartner ofArea9 - thecompany behindMcGraw-HillEducations

adaptive learning platforms and products(LearnSmart and SmartBook). Since thelaunch of the first products in 2008,LearnSmart has become the largestadaptive learning platform globally span-ning more than 100 course areas withmillions of students using it intensively.It is also the most ambitious system interms of adaptive precision and datamonitoring. More than 1.7 billion studentssubmissions have been received result-ing in 19+ billion data points (beginningof the fall semester 2013).

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Dr. Christensen has an M.D. from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a postgraduate degree in educationfrom University of Dundee. He has abackground in human factors and simu-lation research and founded his first edtech company in 1997. Dr. Christensen isthe education architect behind Area9’sadaptive learning platforms.

His first company, Sophus Medical, wassold to Laerdal Medical in 2002. From2002 to 2006 he was responsible forLaerdal Medical's learning products globally during a period where the tech-nologies became the basis for LaerdalMedical's dominant role in emergencymedicine computer simulation. The listof partners and customers include theUS Army, HealthStream and the Ameri-can Heart Association among others. He has given numerous keynote lecturesand has pioneered advancements inadaptive learning, computer simulation,and debriefing technologies both inblended and online environments. Main research interests are intelligentsystems to facilitate development ofmetacognitive skills, student compliancewith learning environments and motivation.

Michael Chui

Dr. Michael Chuiis a principal ofthe McKinseyGlobal Institute(MGI), McKin-sey's businessand economicsresearch arm,where he leadsresearch on the

impact of information technologies andinnovation on business, the economy,and society. Michael has led McKinseyresearch in such areas as Big Data, Web2.0 and collaboration technologies, andthe Internet of Things.

Michael is a frequent speaker at majorglobal conferences, and his research hasbeen cited in leading publications aroundthe world. His PhD dissertation, entitled"I Still Haven't Found What I'm LookingFor: Web Searching as Query Refine-ment," examined Web user search

behaviors and the usability of Websearch engines.

As a McKinsey consultant, Michaelserved clients in the high-tech, media,and telecom industries on strategy, innovation and product development, IT, sales and marketing, M&A, and organization.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Michaelserved as the first chief information officer of the city of Bloomington, Indi-ana, where he re-architected the enter-prise architecture using open sourcetechnologies and led a project that resulted in Bloomington becoming thefirst community in the world to offerboth live and archived video streamingof public meetings on the Web.

Before that, Michael was founder andexecutive director of HoosierNet, Inc., a nonprofit cooperative Internet serviceprovider that offered dial-up and broad-band access to the Internet to consumers,nonprofits, governments, and businesses.

Michael is based in McKinsey's SanFrancisco Office.

Francisco G. Cigarroa

Dr. Francisco G. Cigarroa wasappointed aschancellor ofThe Universityof Texas Systemby the UT Sys-tem Board ofRegents in

2009. He is the first Hispanic chancellorof The University of Texas System. Heoversees one of the largest public sys-tems of higher education in the nation,with nine universities and six health institutions, an annual operating budgetof $13 billion, more than 215,000 stu-dents, 19,000 faculty members, and68,000 staff members.

A nationally renowned transplant sur-geon, Dr. Cigarroa served as presidentof the UT Health Science Center at SanAntonio from 2000 until his appointmentas chancellor in 2009.

A native of Laredo, Texas, Dr. Cigarroaearned a bachelor’s degree from YaleUniversity and his medical degree fromThe University of Texas SouthwesternMedical Center at Dallas. During his 12years of postgraduate training, he servedas chief resident at Massachusetts General and completed both a pediatric-surgery and transplant fellowship atJohns Hopkins Hospital.

In 2003, President George W. Bush appointed him to serve as a member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science. PresidentBarack Obama appointed him to serve as a commissioner on the PresidentialAdvisory Commission on EducationalExcellence for Hispanics. ChancellorCigarroa also serves on the AmericanAcademy Commission on the Humanitiesand Social Sciences and the NationalResearch Council Committee on Research Universities.

Chancellor Cigarroa is a member of several prestigious academic and med-ical societies, including the AmericanCollege of Surgery, the Institute of Medicine, the American Board of Surgery, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

David Coleman

David Colemanbecame theninth presidentof the CollegeBoard – the not-for-profiteducation mem-bership organi-zation – inOctober 2012.

Prior joining the College Board, Colemanwas CEO of Student Achievement Part-ners, the nonprofit he co-founded andwhich played a leading role the develop-ment of the Common Core State Stan-dards in math and literacy. Coleman alsoco-founded the Grow Network – an organization committed to making assessment results truly useful for educators and families – which was acquired by McGraw-Hill Education in2005.

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A native of New York City, Coleman is aRhodes Scholar and a graduate of Yale,Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was recognized as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People”for 2013.

Emily Coleman

Ms. Coleman is an AssistantVice Presidentof InteractiveMarketing, overseeing theretailer dot combusiness forLancôme USA.In this role, she

is responsible for managing this busi-ness from a sales development perspec-tive and working with all of the dot comretailers to provide the best Lancômeclient experience possible on the retail-ers websites. Prior to this role, Ms.Coleman held several diverse roleswithin the L’Oréal Group over a 10 yearspan, starting as an information technol-ogy analyst for the consumer productsdivision in France, becoming a senior internal SAP consultant implementingprojects in Asia and the United States,transitioning to more operational roleswithin the L’Oréal USA luxury productdivision supply chain, and finally as aKey Account Director for Lancôme USAoverseeing accounts across all classesof trade from a high-end Bergdorf Good-man to a value-driven Century21. Shegraduated with a Masters in EngineeringScience from Oxford University, whereshe was the recipient of the Motz Uni-versity Prize in Electronic Engineering,and is a 2013 SUNY graduate, of theFashion Institute of Technology’s Master’s of Professional Studies degreeprogram in Cosmetics and FragranceMarketing and Management. Ms. Cole-man is fluent in French and has studiedGerman.

R.G. Conlee

RG Conlee isthe SVP, ChiefInnovation Offi-cer for Xeroxwith a focus onthe company’sbusinessprocess and informationtechnology

services. He was promoted to this position in November 2011. Previously,he served as Vice President of Technol-ogy and Innovation for ACS' commercialbusiness. During his twelve year tenureat ACS, which was acquired by Xerox in2010, Conlee has served as DivisionSoftware Manager, Strategic BusinessUnit manager, Division Vice Presidentand VP of Innovation for the Healthcare,Finance and Insurance Group.

Prior to ACS, Conlee was a career edu-cator with twenty years experience asboth a teacher (public and private) andadministrator which included teachingassignments in both the arts (music education) and technical fields (math/science). He also was the founder of anon-profit, private, K-12 school in theMid-West, former owner of a small computer software firm and a lead ITproject manager for KentuckyUtilities/LGE Energy.

Meghan Cook

Meghan Cook is a Program Director at theCenter for Tech-nology in Gov-ernment (CTG)where she leadsdigital govern-ment researchand practice

programs that foster public sector innovation and enhance organizationalcapability to support good governance.Working with academic, government, andindustry partners, Meghan has managedover $3 million in research funds exploring the policy, management,

and technology factors that influenceand shape government transformation atthe local, state, federal, and internationallevels.

Managing over 50 digital governmentprojects, Meghan’s current portfolio includes programs focused on under-standing the value of opening govern-ment and data, building smarter cities,and making value based investments.Most recently, Meghan led a projectfunded by NSF to examine organizationalinvestment planning and decision mak-ing related to opening government. Theresult was the development of a PublicValue Assessment Tool (PVAT) used bythe US Department of Transportation tocreate their Agency’s Open GovernmentPlan. In addition, she led a World Bankfunded project to assess the FederalGovernment of Nigeria’s open govern-ment readiness. Here in New York State,she is leading a regional effort to openup code enforcement data for municipal-ities and community organizations andassisting the Metropolitan Transit Authority in their enterprise asset management efforts.

Meghan is a founding member of the CityProtocol Society and a member of theSmart Cities Council. Locally she servesas an advisor to the NYS Local Govern-ment IT Directors Association andserved on the United States Office ofPersonnel Management Open Govern-ment Flagship Committee.

Rebecca Costa

Rebecca Costais a sociobiolo-gist, author, and nationallysyndicated radiohost who offersan evolutionaryexplanation forcurrent eventsand emerging

trends. A new voice in the mold of AlvinToffler, Thomas Friedman and MalcolmGladwell, Costa attributes modern consternation - from terrorism, crime

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on Wall Street, epidemic obesity and upheaval in the Middle East - to geneticimperatives. Retiring from a career inSilicon Valley, Costa spent six years researching and writing The Watchman’sRattle. The success of the book in 25countries led to a weekly nationally syndicated radio program called TheCosta Report. Costa is presently repre-sented by the American Program Bureauand the Scott Meredith Literary Agency.

Peter Crosta

Peter Crosta isa data scientistwho conductsquantitativeanalyses related to the econom-ics of higher ed-ucation. Heworks withlarge state and

national data sets to answer pressingquestions related to the developmentaleducation placement process, collegecompletion, and transfer from two-yearto four-year institutions. Crosta alsoprovides research and consulting leader-ship, creating analytical tools to be usedby researchers and administrators. Hehas published several articles on theeconomics of education, and continuesto focus his research on how technol-ogy, machine learning, visualization, and big data analytics can be used to respond to postsecondary education policy challenges. Prior to CCRC, hespent three years building high perform-ance computing clusters for academic researchers as part of Columbia University's central IT group, and twoyears as a mathematics and economicsteacher at a secondary school in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Crosta holds aPhD in Economics and Education from Columbia University, an MA in Econom-ics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BAin Economics from Cornell University.

Tristan Denley

Dr. Tristan Denley earnedhis PhD inMathematicsfrom TrinityCollege Cam-bridge, and heldpositions in Europe andNorth America

before becoming Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the TennesseeBoard of Regents in August 2013.

Throughout his career, he has taken ahands-on approach in a variety of initia-tives impacting student success. He ispresently involved in implementing awide variety of initiatives surroundingcollege completion stretching from edu-cation redesign across the disciplinesand institutional transformation, to therole of predictive analytics and data mining in higher education.

His most recent work has created acourse recommendation system atAPSU that successfully pairs currentstudents with the courses that best fittheir talents and program of study forupcoming semesters. This system,which combines hundreds of thousandsof past students’ grades with each par-ticular student’s transcript, to make indi-vidualized recommendations for currentstudents was an IMS Global LearningImpact Awards winner.

Johanna Duncan-Poitier

Johanna Duncan-Poitieris the SeniorVice Chancellorfor the Officesof CommunityColleges and the EducationPipeline for The

State University of New York (SUNY).She provides leadership to strengthenteacher preparation and connections between SUNY's 64 campuses, PreK–12schools, business leaders and otherpartners to improve student success,graduation rates and prepare a highly-

qualified workforce. In her dual role, she also provides system oversight andcoordination for SUNY’s 30 communitycolleges that educate over a quarter of a million students each year.

Ms. Duncan-Poitier previously served as the Senior Deputy Commissioner of Education - P-16, responsible for regulatory oversight of the 700 schooldistricts, all 270 NYS colleges and universities (public & private) and thepreparation and licensure of 750,000 licensed professionals in 47 health,business and design professions.

Ms. Duncan-Poitier is one of six NYState Commissioners for the EducationCommission of the States, and has beenrecognized with numerous honors including the Governor’s OutstandingLeadership Award; the President’s National Award for Excellence in Administering Science, Mathematics,and Engineering Programs in NY State;the NY State Association for Women inAdministration-Pathfinder Award; andseveral honorary doctoral degrees.

Ms. Duncan-Poitier earned a baccalaure-ate degree from Queens College and amaster's degree from Bernard M. BaruchCollege, both from The City University ofNew York.

Jeff Edmonson

Jeff Edmondsonis managing director ofStriveTogether,a national cra-dle-to-careerinitiative thatbrings togetherleaders in Pre-K-12 schools,

higher education, business and industry,community organizations, governmentleaders, parents and other stakeholderswho are committed to helping childrensucceed from birth through careers.

Edmondson was founding executive director of the Strive Partnership inCincinnati and Northern Kentucky, apartnership of postsecondary, K-12,business, philanthropic, non-profit, andcivic organizations in Cincinnati andNorthern Kentucky aimed at increasing

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educational aspirations, achievement,and attainment of students throughoutthe region.

He also served as the foundation officerfor KnowledgeWorks Foundation. In thisrole, Edmondson was responsible forassisting the President & CEO by leadingand providing support for priority initia-tives, communicating on the vision andstrategies of the Foundation.

Edmondson also worked as the Peace-able Schools Coordinator at WoodrowWilson Senior High School, the largestpublic secondary school in Washington,D.C., where he was an advocate forteachers and students in the school,built partnerships between the schooland organizations and businesses in the community to improve student out-comes, and trained students and staff inmediation and other alternative conflictresolution techniques.

Edmondson has a bachelor's of sciencein biology from University of Richmondand a master's in public policy fromJohns Hopkins University. In addition, he served as a volunteer and supervisorfor three years in Peace Corps Gabon,Central Africa. Currently, Jeff has beenselected as a fellow to the Ashoka –Innovators for the Public and completedhis Annie E. Casey Family and ChildrenFellowship.

In 2012, he was named the recipient ofthe American Express NGen LeadershipAward, which honors one accomplishednonprofit leader age 40 and under whohas already demonstrated significant impact in addressing society’s criticalneeds.

Lee Fisher

Lee Fisher isthe Presidentand CEO ofCEOs for Cities.

Lee is also aSenior Fellowwith the Centerfor EconomicDevelopment at Cleveland

State University’s Levin College ofUrban Affairs.

Lee has served as Ohio Lt. Governor, Director of the Ohio Department of Development, Chair of the Ohio ThirdFrontier Commission, Ohio AttorneyGeneral, State Senator, State Represen-tative, and President/CEO of the Centerfor Families and Children, one of thelargest human service nonprofits in the Midwest.

During the time Lee led Ohio’s economicdevelopment efforts, Site Selection mag-azine awarded its highest economic development award, the Governor’s Cup,to Ohio three consecutive years and withthe Competitiveness Award, recognizingthe Ohio Department of Development,under Lee’s leadership, as the most effective economic development agencyin the country.

Lee is a graduate of Oberlin College and served on the Oberlin College Boardfor 12 years. He earned both a law degree and master degree in nonprofitorganization from Case Western ReserveUniversity, and received the law school’sfirst-ever Distinguished Recent GraduateAward.

BernadineChuck Fong

BernadineChuck Fong issenior manag-ing partner forthe CarnegieFoundation forthe Advance-ment of Teach-ing. She directs

the foundation’s developmental mathe-matics initiative for 50 community colleges and universities in 14 states.Through this initiative the foundation isbuilding a networked improvement com-munity to increase students successthrough the improvement of the practicein teaching. To date, the initiative hastripled the success rate of students inone-half the time. Fong is also presidentemerita of Foothill College in the SiliconValley, where she began her 36-year ca-reer as a psychology and child develop-ment professor, and has authored twotextbooks in these fields. She served aspresident for 12 years, retiring in June

2006. Under her leadership, Foothill be-came one of the first institutions to offeronline courses for credit in 1995. Fongalso has been a visiting scholar at Stan-ford University’s Institute for Higher Ed-ucation Research and her researchinterests include academic leadership,organizational development, and com-munity colleges as agents for educa-tional equity. She is an executive coachfor the Achieving the Dream Initiative, anational effort engaged in institutionaltransformation to assure the academicsuccess of students of low income andof color. She has served on countlessboards and commissions; she is a pasttrustee of Stanford University and theCarnegie Foundation; she was on theAmerican Association of CommunityColleges Board of Directors and chairedthe AACC Commission for Academic,Student and Community Developmentand the Commission on Publications andPublic Relations. She is a fellow of theAmerican Leadership Forum of SiliconValley and the American Council on Education (ACE), and was named “Phenomenal Woman,” an award givenby Chicago’s Harold Washington CollegeChapter of the American Association ofWomen in Community Colleges. HerB.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are from StanfordUniversity.

Fred Fonseca

Dr. Fred Fonseca is currently theco-director ofthe Center forOnline Innova-tion in Learning.From 2010-2012he was the Associate Dean

for Education of the College of Informa-tion Sciences and Technology. Duringthis time he led the online education operations of the College. His researchis focused on the flow of informationfrom its conceptualization in humanminds to its implementation is computerapplications. Currently he is studying the process surrounding the conceptual-ization, design, and instantiation of online courses.


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Lisa Foss

Lisa HelminFoss, MBA,ABD, is the Associate VicePresident andAssociateProvost forStrategy, Planning andEffectiveness at

St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in MassCommunication and Master in BusinessAdministration from St. Cloud State University and is in the final stage ofcompleting a Ph.D. in Educational Policyand Administration – Higher Educationfrom the University of Minnesota. Herdissertation topic is “Deploying Data Analytics: How Redefining, Clarifyingand Integrating Factors Influence the Implementation of Organizational Inno-vations at US Colleges and Universities.”She completed the Harvard GraduateSchool of Education’s Management andLeadership in Higher Education institute.She presents frequently at the local, national and international level onchange management and data analyticsin higher education. She is married withthree children and enjoys anything to do with good food and good wine andspending time outside in her garden as much as the short summer’s in Minnesota will allow.

Brian Ford

Brian Ford is a ConsultingEngineer in theResearch andAdvanced Developmentdepartment ofCisco Systems;the worldwideleader of net-

working for the Internet. Brian has actively participated in the developmentof Cisco security solutions and productsincluding a variety of security appliancesand access control solutions. His currentresearch areas include access control,anomaly detection and mitigation, secu-rity information sharing, and securityanalytics.

Brian consults regularly with staff andexecutives from companies in a varietyof fields to help create synergistic solu-tions to network and Internet securityproblems. In his over 17 years at Ciscohe has supported customers rangingfrom small Internet-based charitable organizations and educational institu-tions through large multinational corpo-rations and international governments.Born and raised in New York; Brian liveswith his family on the north shore ofLong Island. Ford holds a number of industry certifications including CCIE(#2106) and Computer Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Brian is an active advocate for STEMand technical education in secondaryschools, colleges, and universities aswell as through the Cisco NetworkingAcademy program. Earlier in 2013 Brianwas awarded the Cisco Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR) High Impact Awardfor his work driving strategic relation-ships. The Cisco CSR High Impact awardrecognizes individuals who are workingto promote STEM in their local schools,create an interest in technology careersfor females, and working through theCisco Networking Academy program to expand value to customers, inspirestudents and support education pro-grams. These individuals make a differ-ence by volunteering their time andexpertise towards the development andsuccess of students.

He proudly received a B.S. in ComputerScience from the State University ofNew York at Stony Brook and his Masters in Information Assurance from Norwich University.

Jennifer Foutty

Jennifer Fouttyhas been theExecutive Director of theKuali Founda-tion for nearly 4 years. Prior to that role, sheworked for over20 years in

higher education, in information tech-nology, finance, student services, purchasing, and contract and grant

administration. Jennifer led some keyprojects for Indiana University, includingthe initiation of the PeopleSoft StudentSystems project, and the negotiation tooutsource the bookstores at seven cam-puses at IU. Jennifer has often been aspeaker at conferences and seminars,and was a faculty member for sevenyears at the WACUBO Business Manage-ment Institute. She has also taught grad-uate courses at Indiana University. AsExecutive Director of the Kuali Founda-tion, Jennifer is overseeing the growthof the organization, as we continue tosee significant increases in member-ships, projects, and adoptions.

Katharine Frase

Katharine Frasewas appointedVice Presidentand Chief Tech-nology Officer,IBM Public Sec-tor, in March2013. As CTO,she providesthought leader-

ship for IBM and its customers on inno-vation and strategic transformationspecific to government, education, lifesciences, healthcare and cities, drivingthe creation of new solutions. Prior tothis role, she was Vice President, Indus-try Solutions Research, working acrossIBM Research on behalf of IBM clients,to create transformational industry-ocused solutions, including the applica-tion of "Watson" technologies to busi-ness applications and the realization ofSmarter Planet solutions. Earlier rolesincluded technical and business strategyfor IBM's software business, corporateassignments on technology assessmentand strategy, and roles in IBM Micro-electronics in the management ofprocess development, design/modelingmethodology and production of chip carriers, assemblies and test. In 2006,she was elected as a member of the(U.S.) National Academy of Engineering.Dr. Frase received an A.B. in chemistryfrom Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. inmaterials science and engineering fromthe University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Tech-nology and sits on numerous externalcommittees and boards.


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Gregory Fulkerson

Dr. GregoryFulkerson received hisM.A in Sociol-ogy from West-ern MichiganUniversity in2000, taughttwo years at

Lansing Community College, and earnedhis Ph.D. in Sociology from North Carolina State University in 2006. Hecurrently teaches courses for the Soci-ology department and the EnvironmentalScience program as an assistant profes-sor with SUNY College at Oneonta. Hisscholarly interests are related to global-ization, ruralty, community, agriculture,and the environment. His current research investigates the local andglobal processes leading to environmen-tal degradation, urbanization, and thecultural representations of rural life. He is author of several conference pre-sentations, journal articles, co-authoreda recent book, Critical Rural Theory, andco-edited a forthcoming book, Studies in Urbanormativity. He was recently theprogram chair for the Rural SociologicalSociety.

Thomas Furlani

Dr. Furlaniserves as Interim Associate VicePresident for InformationTechnology(CIO) and Director of the University at

Buffalo's Center for Computational Research (CCR), a leading academic supercomputing and visualization facil-ity. CCR maintains a high-performancecomputing environment, high-end visual-ization laboratories, and support staffwith expertise in high-performancecomputing, (big) data analytics, and visu-alization. A National Science FoundationPre-doctoral Fellow, Dr. Furlani hasmore than 25 years experience in scien-

tific computing, including computationalchemistry and parallel processing. Dr.Furlani serves as principal investigatoron several externally funded projects, including the XSEDE TAS award. In addition, Dr. Furlani serves on the NYSERNet Board of Directors and is afounding member of the Visualization in Transportation Committee of the National Transportation Research Board.Dr. Furlani also coordinates on-going K-12, undergraduate and graduate levelprograms, including the Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computa-tional Science for High School Students.

Sean R. Gallagher

Sean Gallagherfounded andleads North-eastern Univer-sity's Office ofStrategy andMarket Develop-ment, a centralstrategy and

innovation function within one of the nation’s largest private research univer-sities. Sean is a nationally recognizedexpert on strategy and analytics inhigher education and has nearly 15 yearsof experience as a consultant, manager,and higher education administrator.

Sean joined Northeastern in 2009 andhas played a catalytic leadership role inthe development and launch of its Grad-uate Campuses in Charlotte and Seattle,as well as in the conception and devel-opment of various academic programsand institutional innovations. Prior tojoining Northeastern, Sean worked for10 years at research/consulting firmEduventures, where he ran its largestand most profitable business unit andplayed an instrumental role in growingthe company.

Sean has been a frequent speaker athigher education conferences, and an invited presenter at government and accrediting agency meetings on educa-tion policy. His analysis and commentaryhave been featured in leading media outlets such as The Chronicle of HigherEducation, The Wall Street Journal, and

CBS Television – and his research hasbeen cited in numerous academic papers and books.

Prior to his career in higher education,Sean worked in the technology sector.Sean holds an M.B.A. from the New YorkInstitute of Technology, and a B.S. inMarketing from Northeastern University.He is currently A.B.D. in Northeastern'shigher education doctoral program(Ed.D.) while he is completing his dissertation on the role of employer demand in professional graduate education.

Steve Gallo

Steve Gallo isthe Lead Soft-ware Engineerand DatabaseAdministrator atthe Center forComputationalResearch (CCR)at the Universityat Buffalo

(SUNY-Buffalo). CCR is a leading aca-demic supercomputing facility whosemission is to enable research and schol-arship by providing faculty with accessto high-performance computing and visualization resources; provide educa-tion, outreach, and training; and fostereconomic development and job creation.As Lead Software Engineer, Steve hasextensive experience in all aspects ofsoftware engineering and software life-cycle management and oversees soft-ware development and data analysisefforts on a number of projects at CCR.Some of his current projects includeXDMoD – a comprehensive auditing anddata analysis framework for the NationalScience Foundation’s XSEDE cyberin-frastructure, community building usingvirtual environments for data intensiveanalysis (VIDIA), volcano research andrisk mitigation (Vhub), and providing industry with access to HPC resources(HPC2). He is currently working with researchers across several disciplinesincluding geology, structural biology,chemistry, nursing, biology, manage-ment, engineering, and the social sci-ences. Steve holds a M.Sc. in ComputerScience from the University at Buffalo.


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Jay Goff

Jay Goff is vicepresident forenrollment and retentionmanagement at Saint Louis University.

As SLU’s chiefenrollment officer since

August 2011, Goff oversees undergradu-ate and graduate admission, student financial services, student educationalservices, TRIO programs, internationalservices, enrollment outreach and terri-tory development and the office of theregistrar.

With over 20 years experience in univer-sity enrollment, strategic planning andcommunication programs, his missioncentric approach has achieved recordenrollments, retention, diversity andgraduation rates. Goff has focused onbuilding a team oriented and data drivendivision that stresses service focusedstudent success plans.

Prior to SLU, Goff was the vice provostand dean of enrollment management at Missouri University of Science andTechnology in Rolla, Missouri for overten years. His leadership at MissouriS&T has been credited with raising thenational academic profile of the studentbody, increasing enrollment by nearly 60 percent, setting institutional recordsfor diversity and student success rates,in addition to other milestones for theresearch intensive school.

Goff is an active member in the globalenrollment management community. Hehas consulted with over 30 institutionsin eight countries. As an active memberof the American Association of CollegeRegistrars and Admissions Officers inWashington D.C., he has served as thenational coordinator of AACRAO’sstrategic enrollment management conference for four-year colleges anduniversities since 2009. The MissouriAACRAO chapter honored his leadershipand contributions to the field with a professional service award in 2008.

Goff has served as the Missouri repre-sentative to the ACT testing servicesBoard of Directors since 2004 and wasa member of ACT’s national educationadvisory board. He is also on the boardof directors for the Educational PolicyInstitute (EPI) in Washington D.C. Goff isfrequently asked to share his expertiseat national and international forums focused on strategic planning and stu-dent success. In January 2011, he deliv-ered a keynote address on using data toimprove enrollments at UK universitiesduring a conference held in London bythe Universities and Colleges Admis-sions Service (UCAS).

Goff earned his master’s in communica-tion studies from the University of Kansaswhere his research focused on organi-zational communication and the collegeselection process. He received a bache-lor's degree in mass communication fromSoutheast Missouri State University.

Maria Gotsch

Maria is thePresident andCEO at the Part-nership Fundfor New YorkCity, which isthe investmentarm of the Part-nership for NewYork City. In

addition to leading the Fund’s operations,Maria has spearheaded the creation andoperation of a number of the Fund’sstrategic initiatives, including: FinTechInnovation Lab; New York Digital HealthAccelerator; NYCSeed (seed financingfor IT/digital media companies); BioAc-celerate Prize NYC (proof-of-conceptfunding for university-based biomedicalresearch); Arts Entrepreneurial LoanFund (low cost loans for mid-size artsgroups); and ReStart Central and Finan-cial Recovery Fund (assistance andfunding for small businesses impactedby 9/11/01).

Prior to joining the Fund in 1999, Maria was a Managing Director at BTWolfensohn (now part of DeutscheBank), providing strategic and financialadvice related to mergers, acquisitions,dispositions, joint ventures and the

development of business strategies. Before starting with Wolfensohn, Mariaworked at LaSalle Partners in the NewYork area and for Merrill Lynch CapitalMarkets in New York and London. Mariahas an MBA from Harvard BusinessSchool and a B.A. from Wellesley College. She was also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to study interna-tional relations at the Institut Universi-taire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland.

Daniel Greenstein

Dr. DanielGreensteinserves as Director of Education, PostsecondarySuccess for theBill & MelindaGates Founda-

tion. Greenstein oversees work to substantially increase the number ofstudents that acquire a postsecondarydegree or certificate.

Before joining the Foundation, Green-stein was Vice Provost for AcademicPlanning and Programs at the Universityof California Office of the President, arole in which he acted as the director forUC Online Education – a new effort tointegrate online education into the university’s undergraduate curriculum,among other accomplishments.

Greenstein has led, in some casesfounded, several internet-based aca-demic information services in the US(the California Digital Library) and theUnited Kingdom (the Arts and Humani-ties Data Service), and served on boardsand acted in strategic consulting rolesfor educational, cultural heritage, and information organizations.

He holds degrees from the Universitiesof Oxford (DPhil) and Pennsylvania (MA,BA) and began his professional life as a senior lecture in Modern History atGlasgow University. Current fascinationsinclude sustaining models for publichigher education, online undergraduateinstruction, and models for supportingdisruptive innovation in large well-established organizations.


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Gali Halevi

Dr. Gali Haleviis a senior analyst and pro-gram director atElsevier. As apart of her roleshe is responsi-ble for the development of Informetric

tools for Elsevier’s leading products. Inaddition, Gali is the director of Elsevier’sBibliometric Research Program (EBRPwww.ebrp.elsevier.com) and the Research Trends Seminar series. She’s also a member of the editorialboard of Research Trends (www.researchtrends.com) and a regularwriter for the magazine. Working at Elsevier for the past 10 years, Galiserved in several roles among which the development and implementation ofcustomers training and educational pro-grams and global government marketsintelligence and growth. Previous to herwork at Elsevier, Gali was an informa-tion specialist providing competitive intelligence services for pharmaceuticaland financial companies. Gali Receivedher MLS from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem and a PhD in Information Science from Long Island University, NY.

Steve Hirdt

Steve Hirdt, alifelong NewYorker, hasspent his entireprofessional liferesearching,compiling anddistributingsports informa-tion and statis-

tics. He is the executive vice presidentof the Elias Sports Bureau, the NewYork-based sports-information companythat is the exclusive Official Statisticianfor the National Football League, MajorLeague Baseball, the National BasketballAssociation, the National HockeyLeague, Major League Soccer and otherleagues. The Elias Bureau is the fore-most repository of sports information

pertaining to the major North Americanprofessional sports leagues, and is theprimary source of sports statistics distributed to major media companies,including ESPN and NBC Sports, amongmany others. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with most of thestars of televised sports, including AlMichaels, Tim McCarver, Jon Gruden,Mike Tirico, Frank Gifford, Keith Jack-son, Howard Cosell and Dennis Miller.

Mr. Hirdt has served since 1982 as theEmmy Award-winning Director of Infor-mation for Monday Night Football, onboth ABC and ESPN, working on thetelecasts of close to 500 games, morethan any other individual associated withthe show in its 44-year history. Previ-ously, for 20 years, he worked with ABC and CBS on their telecasts of MajorLeague Baseball. All told, he has workedon 12 World Series, seven Super Bowlsand two NBA Finals.

Mr. Hirdt has co-authored several bookson baseball and football, and has been afrequent on-screen contributor to docu-mentaries on the history of sports, such as ESPN’s SportsCentury series.Through his television appearances, bothon- and off-screen, as well as throughhis magazine columns and books, Mr.Hirdt and the Elias Bureau have beendeeply instrumental in adding to fans’enjoyment of sports by illuminating andexplaining the our favorite spectatorsports through information and statistics.

John Jahnke

John is SeniorDirector ofGlobal Solutionsat Pivotal, acompany thatenables cus-tomers to createmodern soft-ware applica-tions that

leverage big & fast data – on a single,cloud independent platform. John pro-vides vision, strategic leadership, and focused determination, bringing togetherteams to build disruptive, progressivesolutions leveraging the Pivotal data and application portfolio.

Solutions offering examples include:

Real time Intelligence for Telecommuni-cations (RTI for Telco): RTI is a big andfast data platform that enables operatorsto analyze live streams of signal infor-mation, as it happens, to track and iden-tify individual customer experiences onthe operator network. The signal data iseffortlessly enriched with customer information, then associated with config-urable actions to enhance customer experience and improve operations.

Corporate Communication Data Lake: Financial services companies are underconstant scrutiny to conform to audit requirements, in an electronic agewhere compliance is ever changing. Thissolution integrates numerous communi-cation archive streams into a parallel analytics system, enabling auditors todynamically interact with data, allowingcustomized, focused discovery requests.

IT/Security Data Lake: Pivotal in part-nership with RSA offers a joint solutionthat big-data enables the RSA SecurityAnalytics platform, allowing integrationof additional IT and business sourcesinto an IT Data lake. This platform empowers data scientists to leverageadvanced machine learning algorithms todetect non-traditional business threats.

John resides in Orchard Park NY andhas spent the last 15 years working withdisruptive technologies at companieslike Pivotal, Greenplum and EMC. Johnholds a Bachelor of Science from Buffalo State College and an MBA fromthe University at Buffalo.

RichardJanikowski

RichardJanikowski is aPrincipal inStrategic CitySolutions, aconsulting firmspecializing indata analysisand evidence-

based practices addressing urban issues. He recently retired after 25years as a professor in the Departmentof Criminology and Criminal Justice at


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the University of Memphis in Memphis,TN and served as Director of the Centerfor Community Criminology and Research which provided applied research support for criminal justiceagencies in the areas of crime analysis,crime mapping, and evidence-basedpractice. He is the recipient of the Uni-versity’s Excellence in Engaged Scholar-ship Award and the Arts & Sciences W.Russell Smith Award for Teaching Excel-lence, has been included in “Who’s Whoin Memphis” editions of Memphis Maga-zine, and in 2010 was recognized by theMemphis Commercial Appeal as one of the ten most influential people inMemphis during the past decade. He has been the Principal Investigator orCo-Principal Investigator on over 12 million dollars of grants and contracts.Professor Janikowski has worked exten-sively with the Memphis Police Depart-ment, the United States Attorney for theWestern District of Tennessee, theShelby County Sheriff’s Office, andmany other law enforcement agencieson a variety of projects. In addition, Professor Janikowski has served as aconsultant and trainer for the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Insti-tute of Justice and its Bureau of JusticeAssistance and has lectured extensivelyand trained police officers throughoutthe United States and in Europe andSouth America, on gangs, youth vio-lence, violent crime, problem-solvingpolicing, and crime analysis.

Scott Jaschik

Scott Jaschik is editor andone of the threefounders of Inside HigherEd. With DougLederman, heleads the edito-rial operationsof Inside Higher

Ed, overseeing news content, opinionpieces, career advice, blogs and otherfeatures. Scott is a leading voice onhigher education issues, quoted regu-larly in publications nationwide, andpublishing articles on colleges in publi-cations such as The New York Times,

The Boston Globe, The Washington Post,Salon, and elsewhere. He has been ajudge or screener for the National Maga-zine Awards, the Online JournalismAwards, the Folio Editorial ExcellenceAwards, and the Education Writers Association Awards. Scott served as amentor in the community college fellow-ship program of the Hechinger Instituteon Education and the Media, of TeachersCollege, Columbia University. He is amember of the board of the EducationWriters Association. From 1999-2003,Scott was editor of The Chronicle ofHigher Education. Scott grew up inRochester, New York, and graduatedfrom Cornell University in 1985. He lives in Washington.

Matthew Jockers

Matthew L.Jockers is Assistant Pro-fessor of Eng-lish and FacultyFellow in theCenter for Digi-tal Research inthe Humanities

at the University of Nebraska. Prior tothat he was a Lecturer and AcademicTechnology Specialist in the Departmentof English at Stanford where he co-founded the Stanford Literary Lab.His research is focused on computa-tional approaches to the study of litera-ture, especially large collections ofliterature. His publications includeMacroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (UIUC Press 2013), aswell as essays on computational textanalysis, authorship attribution, Irish andIrish-American literature, and severalco-authored amicus briefs defending thefair and transformative use of digitaltext. Jockers's work has been profiled in the academic and main stream pressincluding the New York Times, Nature,the Chronicle of Higher Education, Wired,New Scientist, Smithsonian, NBC Newsand many others. At Nebraska Jockersteaches courses in Irish literature andcomputational humanities.

Timothy Killeen

Born in Cardiff,Wales, Killeenreceived a BScin Physics andPh.D. in Atomicand MolecularPhysics fromthe UniversityCollege, London.He is a US citi-

zen. His is presently the Vice Chancel-lor for Research for the State Universityof new York and President of the Research Foundation for SUNY. He was formerly Assistant Director forGeosciences at the NSF and Director ofthe National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.Prior to joining NCAR, Killeen was fullProfessor of Atmospheric and SpaceSciences at the University of Michigan.During his 23-year tenure at Michigan,he also held positions as Director of theUniversity of Michigan’s Space PhysicsResearch Laboratory and Associate Vice President for Research. Killen hastaught many courses at both undergrad-uate and graduate levels, including an innovative introductory course sequencefor non-science majors dealing with thephysical and human impacts of globalchange. He has been honored withmembership in the National Academy ofEngineering and served as the electedpresident of the American GeophysicalUnion. He is a Fellow of the AmericanMeteorological Society (AMS). His research interests include the experi-mental and theoretical study of theEarth’s upper atmosphere and interdis-ciplinary education. He is the formerPrincipal Investigator and instrumentdeveloper for a space-borne Doppler interferometer on the NASA TIMEDspacecraft. He was a Co-Principal Investigator for an NSF Science andTechnology Center devoted to numericalmodeling of Space Weather. Killeen hasbeen honored for teaching, research andservice. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Atmosphericand Solar-Terrestrial Physics.


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Kevin Kinser

Kevin Kinser is Chair of theDepartment ofEducational Administrationand Policy Stud-ies and Senior Researcher atthe Institute forGlobal Educa-

tion Policy Studies at the University atAlbany, State University of New York. He is also a fellow at SUNY RockefellerInstitute for Government and a SeniorFellow for Internationalization atNAFSA: Association of International Educators. He is a graduate of ColumbiaUniversity's Teachers College (NewYork). Kinser studies non-traditional andalternative higher education, particularlythe public policies and organizationalstructures related to private for-profitinstitutions and international cross-bor-der higher education. He is regularlysought out by national and internationalmedia outlets for commentary on for-profit and international higher education.Kinser is the author of more than 40 articles, chapters, and scholarly reports,and regularly presents papers at confer-ences in the United States and abroad.His most recent books are The GlobalGrowth of Private Higher Education(Wiley, 2010) and Multinational Collegesand Universities: Leading, Governing,and Managing International Branch Campuses (Jossey-Bass, 2011).

Dean Krafft

Dr. Dean B.Krafft is theChief Technol-ogy Strategistand Director of InformationTechnology atthe Cornell Uni-versity Library,where he

serves as part of the Library’s seniormanagement team. His academic inter-ests include research data managementand curation, digital archiving and

preservation, and the use of semantic webtechnologies to support the discovery of and access to research, researchers,and scholarly information resources.Related to those interests, he serves asthe chair of the Management Team forthe VIVO Project (http://vivoweb.org), a system and community focused on describing and discovering researchersand research. Prior to joining the Libraryin 2008, Dr. Krafft served as the princi-pal investigator on the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library techni-cal network services project, leading theteam that built the library infrastructureand operated the library services. Beforethat, he served for many years as Direc-tor of IT for Computing and InformationScience at Cornell. Dr. Krafft receivedhis Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1981.

David Kuntz

David Kuntz hasbeen involved inevery aspect ofthe large-scaleeducational assessmentbusiness. Overthe span of his20-year career,he has held

senior positions at Educational TestingService (ETS) and the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC). He alsocreated the first automated test assem-bly algorithm and system for the currentLSAT, the first web-based computer-adaptive test delivery system, the firstonline AP practice program using realAP graders, and the first large-scaleweb-based portfolio scoring and man-agement system. He has been awardedfive assessment-related patents. Davidholds a B.A. in Philosophy from Brown,an M.A. in Philosophy from Rutgers, and an MBA from Wharton.

Jason E. Lane

Jason E. Lane isan internation-ally recognizedscholar in thestudy of highereducation insti-tutions and poli-tics as well asan academicleader at the

most comprehensive system of highereducation in the United States. In hisrole as Associate Vice Chancellor forAcademic Programs and Planning andAssociate Provost for Graduate Educa-tion and Research for the State Univer-sity of New York (SUNY), Dr. Laneoversees the office responsible for thereview of all academic programs acrossthe system’s 64 campuses and the development and implementation of keyacademic initiatives and policies thatsupport the system’s Strategic Plan, The Power of SUNY. He also providesleadership for the System’s efforts to attract and retain exceptional researchersthrough the Empire Innovation Programas well as coordinates the annual SUNYCritical Issues in Higher Education confer-ence and book series, which promotesacademic inquiry into the most pressingissues facing public colleges and univer-sities.

Previously, Dr. Lane served as a SUNYProvost Fellow and continues to serveas the Deputy Director for Research atthe Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute ofGovernment, the public policy think tankof the State University of New York. He is also an associate professor of educational policy (on leave), senior researcher at the Institute for Global Education Policy Studies, and co-direc-tor of the Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT) at the University at Albany (SUNY).

In his scholarly pursuits, Dr. Lane haswritten more than 40 journal articles,book chapters, and policy reports; andauthored or edited eight books, includingMulti-National Colleges and Universities:Leadership and Administration of Interna-tional Branch Campuses (Jossey-Bass,2011, w/ Kevin Kinser), Colleges and


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Universities as Economic Drivers (SUNYPress, 2012 w/ Bruce Johnstone) Academic Leadership and Governance ofHigher Education (Stylus Press, 2013, w/ Robert Hendrickson, James Harris,and Rick Dorman) and Higher EducationSystems 3.0 (SUNY Press, 2013 w/Bruce Johnstone).

A Fulbright New Century Scholar, Dr.Lane has been a speaker and consultantin more than 30 countries across Asia,Europe, North and South America, andthe Middle East. He is a frequent com-mentator on global trends in higher education and his research has beencited in major media outlets includingthe Associated Press, Bloomberg News,Boston Globe, National Public Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, InsideHigher Education, Newsweek, TexasMonthly, Times Higher Education (UK)and University World New. Additionally, he is a regular contributor to the Chronicleof Higher Education’s Worldwise blog and has served on the boards of theComparative and International EducationSociety (CIES), Council for InternationalHigher Education (CIHE), and the GulfComparative Education Society (GCES).

Dr. Lane holds a Ph.D. (higher educationpolicy and administration) and M.A. (political science) from The PennsylvaniaState University and a B.S. (political sci-ence and business administration) fromSoutheast Missouri State University.

Mitch Leventhal

Dr. Mitch Leventhal, ViceChancellor ofGlobal Affairs,heads the State Universityof New York(SUNY) GlobalCenter in Manhattan and

is responsible for strategic planning, policy development, and coordination ofsystem-wide global initiatives. SUNYGlobal is profoundly focused on accessand, in particular, the affordability of studyabroad opportunities for all students.

A leader in the area of international edu-cation policy and practice, Dr. Leventhalis a vocal advocate for important reformof U.S. recruiting practice, developmentof new financing paradigms in supportof campus internationalization, creationof technical systems better designed tosupport comprehensive internationaliza-tion, and deeper and more creative approaches to engagement with corpo-rate partners.

Dr. Leventhal earned his bachelors andmasters degrees in Political Sciencefrom the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in the InternationalPolitical Economy of Higher Educationfrom the University of Chicago. Dr. Leventhal resides in New York City.

Shirley Malcom

Shirley Malcomis head of Education and Human Resources ofthe AmericanAssociation forthe Advance-ment of Science(AAAS) and

member of the SUNY Research Council.At AAAS she works to improve the quality and increase access to educationand careers in STEM fields as well as to enhance public science literacy. Dr. Malcom is a trustee of Caltech and a regent of Morgan State University. Sheis a former member of the National Science Board, the policymaking body of the National Science Foundation, andserved on President Clinton’s Committeeof Advisors on Science and Technology.Malcom, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, received her PhD in ecologyfrom The Pennsylvania State University,masters in zoology from UCLA andbachelor’s with distinction in zoologyfrom the University of Washington. She holds 16 honorary degrees.

Malcom serves on the boards of theHeinz Endowments, Public Agenda, theNational Math-Science Initiative and Digital Promise. Internationally, she is a leader in efforts to improve access of girls and women to education and

careers in science and engineering andto increase use of S&T to empowerwomen and address problems they facein their daily lives, serving as co-chair of the Gender Advisory Board of the UNCommission on S&T for Developmentand Gender InSITE, a global campaign to deploy S&T to help improve the livesand status of girls and women. In 2003,Dr. Malcom received the Public WelfareMedal of the National Academy of Sciences, the highest award given by the Academy.

Jim Malatras

Dr. James J.Malatras joinedSUNY July 1,2013 as ViceChancellor forPolicy and Chiefof Staff. In thisposition, he is a senior advisor to the

Chancellor’s Executive team, the Boardof Trustees, and the University’s 64campuses on strategic communications,and all matters of higher education, state and federal policy.

Dr. Malatras previously served asDeputy Secretary for Policy Managementfor Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Prior,Jim served as deputy director for policyon Andrew Cuomo’s successful cam-paign for Governor, executive director of legislative affairs and state policy forAttorney General Cuomo, legislative director to Assemblyman Richard L.Brodsky; and an adjunct instructor at the University at Albany and Hudson Valley Community College.

Dr. Malatras received his B.A. in PoliticalScience, his M.A. in Political Science,and his Ph.D. in Political Science, allfrom the University at Albany.


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Rebecca R. Martin

Rebecca Martinis the ExecutiveDirector of theNational Asso-ciation of Sys-tem Heads, anassociation ofchief executivesof the 52 col-

lege and university systems of publichigher education in the United Statesand Puerto Rico. NASH and its partnershave worked hard to form a network ofpresidents, chancellors, executive direc-tors, and commissioners. Together, thisgroup supports leaders and their peersin the unique roles they play. NASH andits affiliates boast more than 30 years ofcollaboration, system heads in 40 states,more than 5.6 million students, and sup-port for public multi-campus systemswhich enroll 75% of all students in pub-lic four-year colleges and universities.

Dr. Martin also serves as Higher Educa-tion Director at the Education DeliveryInstitute, an innovative non-profit organ-ization that focuses on implementinglarge-scale system change in public education. Previously, Dr. Martin servedin leadership positions at the Universityof Wisconsin System, the University ofWisconsin–Parkside, and the Universityof Vermont. She earned her doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. Herresearch interests include organizationalchange, equity in higher education, andcommunity-based learning.

H. Carl McCall

H. Carl McCallwas appointedChairman ofThe State University ofNew York Boardof Trustees October 17,2011. He firstjoined the Board

as a member on October 22, 2007.

Mr. McCall served as Comptroller of the State of New York from May 1993 toDecember 2002. As Chief Fiscal Officerof the State, he was responsible for governmental and financial oversight and pension fund management. As soleTrustee of the 880,000-member Stateand Local Retirement Systems, Mr. McCall was responsible for investing apension fund valued at $120 billion.

Mr. McCall has had a distinguished career as a public servant. He servedthree terms as a New York State Senator representing the upper Manhattan district of New York City; as an Ambassador to the United Nations;as a Commissioner of the Port Authorityof New York and New Jersey; and as theCommissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights.

Mr. McCall has been a passionate advo-cate for public education. He served asPresident of the New York City Board ofEducation from 1991 – 1993, where heset policy for the largest school systemin the nation and as the Chairman of thePublic Higher Education ConferenceBoard, a coalition of 14 member organi-zation which supports a strong and vibrant public higher education systemin New York State.

He has also been active in the privatesector; he served as a Vice President of Citibank and as Corporate Director of the New York Stock Exchange, TycoInternational, New Plan Realty Corpora-tion and presently Ariel Investment.

He was educated at Dartmouth College,Andover Newton Theological Seminaryand the University of Edinburgh. He isthe recipient of nine honorary degrees.

Thomas Moebus

Tom Moebuscurrently servesas the DeputyDirector ofSUNY Levin Institute and Director of the SUNY Con-fucius Institutefor Business.

In addition he serves as Director of Investor Development for the SUNY

Research Foundation. Since joiningSUNY Levin in July 2006, he has helpedto create, fund, and direct many ofLevin’s programs. Tom previously servedas the Director of Corporate Relations atMassachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), where he helped transform MIT’sapproach to industry through partner-ships with major international firms. He then served as Vice Chancellor forUniversity Advancement at the Univer-sity of California, Irvine. While in Califor-nia, Tom co‐founded and was theExecutive Chairman of the OrangeCounty Technology Action Network (OCTANe), an innovation ecosystemwhich has grown to have a profound influence on the innovation economy in that county. Tom completed his undergraduate work at MIT and has agraduate degree from Clark University.

Lisa Montiel

Lisa Montiel isthe StrategicEnrollmentPlanning Analyst in theProvost Officeat SUNY Sys-tem Administra-tion. Dr. Montielworks on behalf

of the Provost as the System point per-son for academic issues and system-wide initiatives pertaining to strategicenrollment management. She overseesthe analytical framework, tools, and resources to support campus and system-wide enrollment planning. She is responsible for SUNY’s efforts to alignits academic programs and facilitieswith regional and statewide economicdevelopment priorities, to prepare grad-uates in high-need and emerging fields,and to ensure sufficient capacity acrossdisciplines and regions to meet studentdemand and support transfer amongcampuses.

Prior to her position at SUNY SystemAdministration, Dr. Montiel was a SeniorResearch Scientist at Rockefeller Insti-


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tute of Government for twelve years pro-viding data management, quantitativeanalyses, and GIS support for numerousprojects in the Office of Urban and Metropolitan Studies. Montiel also heldteaching and research positions at theUniversity at Albany in the Departmentof Anthropology. She holds a Ph.D. inAnthropology from University at Albany,an M.A. in Anthropology from NorthernIllinois University, and B.A. in Anthropol-ogy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kenneth P.O’Brien

Dr. KennethPaul O’Brien is the currentPresident of the UniversityFaculty Senatefor the StateUniversity ofNew York. He

earned his PhD in American historyfrom Northwestern University. The recipient of the Winslow Award for thebest public history project in New YorkState (1992), and both the SUNY Chan-cellor’s Award for Excellence in Teach-ing (1981) and the Chancellor’s Awardfor Faculty Service (2005). His majorpublications include SUNY at 60 (SUNYPress 2009), co-edited with W. BruceLeslie and John Clark, “The UnitedStates and War in the Twentieth Century,” a chapter in The CambridgeCompanion to Modern American Culture(2006), and The Home-Front War(Greenwood Press, 1995), co-edited with Lynn Hudson Parsons. In addition,he has served as Monroe County Histo-rian (1989-1995), a member of the NewYork Historical Records Advisory Boardfor the past decade, and a member of theMotion Picture Association of America’sRatings Board for two years.

Rebecca Petersen

Rebecca's work at edX is focused onmanaging spon-sored researchand proof-of-concept projects. Hercurrent work

includes managing the pilot of MOOCcourses being adapted for on-campuslearning at San Jose State Universityand Massachusetts Community Collegesas well as piloting community learningmodels in Boston and Chicago. She alsoworks with the edX team on establishingbest practices for course development,design, and faculty support.

Rebecca began her career as a middleschool educator in Lincoln, Nebraskaand has since worked in higher educa-tion eLearning for the past 15 years.Early in her career she began integratingtechnology into the curriculum with herstudents, inspired by her experienceworking students with learning disabili-ties, who benefited from using computerand mobile technologies for learning.Through this work, she quickly discov-ered her passion for learning and instructional design which led her tograduate study at the Harvard GraduateSchool of Education. Prior to edX Rebecca was the Director of AcademicTechnology and eLearning Resources forLesley University, providing leadershipand support to expanding blended andonline learning programs in 23 states.While at Lesley she was also faculty ingraduate school of education, teachingcourses in social media and instructionaldesign.

Brian T.Prescott

Brian T.Prescott is the director ofpolicy research at the WesternInterstate Commission for Higher

Education (WICHE). In this role, he co-manages WICHE’s Policy Analysisand Research unit, with primary respon-sibility for obtaining and analyzing edu-cation and workforce data with publicpolicy relevance. He is author of the twomost recent editions of Knocking at theCollege Door, WICHE’s widely-used projections of high school graduates bystate and race/ethnicity. Additionally, he manages grant- and contract-fundedprojects and authors occasional policybriefs, chapters, and research reports.Prescott has experience working directly with states on issues of access,success, affordability, accountability,workforce development, and data sys-tems development. Currently, he is man-aging WICHE’s Gates Foundation-fundedproject to develop a multistate longitudi-nal data exchange. He also serves on theboard of directors of the National Asso-ciation for College Admission Counsel-ing. Prescott received a Ph.D. in highereducation from the University of Virginiaand also holds degrees from the Univer-sity of Iowa and the College of Williamand Mary.

Juliette Price

Juliette Priceserves as Edu-cation PolicyManager forChancellorNancy L. Zimpher, managing vari-ous aspects ofthe education

pipeline and multiple initiatives related to teacher education, cradle to careerpartnerships, and statewide educationpolicy. A proud SUNY graduate, Juliettehas been with SUNY since 2010, previously serving as Coordinator ofOutreach and Engagement focusing onservice-learning and supporting SUNY’sstrategic plan.


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Jay Quaintance

Jay Quaintanceserves as Assistant Vice Chancellorand AssistantProvost forCommunity College Policyand Planning at the State

University of New York. He providessystem support to the 30 SUNY commu-nity colleges for the implementation ofthe SUNY strategic plan. His portfolio includes coordinating efforts to advancemany of SUNY’s critical efforts withinour community college sector to ensurestudent access and success with a focuslargely on improving outcomes in theareas of college readiness, remediation,workforce and workplace development.

Jay came to this role after joining SUNYin December 2011 as Assistant ViceChancellor for Community Colleges, following 18 years of higher educationexperience in New York and New Mex-ico. Immediately prior, he served as theAssistant Dean of Academic Affairs atSchenectady County Community Collegewhere he oversaw the College’s reten-tion and enrollment management efforts.At SCCC he also served as Professorand Chair of the Department of Develop-mental Studies, taught developmentalwriting, and oversaw the developmentaleducation program. Additionally, he ledcollege level curriculum developmentand alignment for Schenectady SmartScholars Early College High School.

Before moving to New York, Mr. Quaintance taught in the writing pro-gram, as well as Upward Bound, at NewMexico State University and Dona AnaCommunity College in Las Cruces, NewMexico. Mr. Quaintance currently servesas president of the Board of Directors of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schenectady County, as a member of the Town of Niskayuna Planning Boardand Zoning Commission, and the OpenStage Media Advisory Committee.

Michael Rappa

Michael Rappais Executive Director of theInstitute for Advanced Analytics and amember of thefaculty in theDepartment ofComputer Sci-

ence at North Carolina State University.As head of the Institute, he leads the nation’s first Master of Science in Analytics as its founder and principal architect. Before joining NC State asDistinguished University Professor in1998, for nine years he was a professorat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Rappa has 25 years ofexperience as a professor workingacross academic disciplines at the inter-section of management and computing.An accomplished researcher and instructor, his passion is to bring an entrepreneurial and forward-thinkingmindset to innovation in higher learning.His current role is to prepare a new generation of data savvy professionalsfor leadership in a digital world.

Harper Reed

Harper Reed is an hacker/engineer whobuilds para-digm-shiftingtech and leadsothers to do thesame. Harperloves using theenormity of

the Internet to bring people together,whether as CTO of Obama for America,CTO at Threadless.com, or on his ownprojects. Harper and his team createdDashboard, a site that connects volun-teer teams and acts as an online compo-nent of the field office. You can oftenfind Harper playing with new technol-ogy, looking for something to hack, orenjoying life in Chicago with his amazingwife, Hiromi.

Philip R. Regier

Phil became the dean of ASU Online inJuly 2009. He isresponsible forguiding ArizonaState Univer-sity’s expansioninto onlinelearning and

leadership role in education innovation.In four years, ASU Online has grownfrom 400 to 7,000 students and from sixto 60 degree programs. The universityhas recently received recognition fromThe New York Times and Bill Gates forits work in adaptive learning and use of data in student advising, as well asearning the top ranking by U.S. News &World Report for online student servicesand technology. Dean Regier previouslyserved as executive dean at the W.P.Carey School of Business at ASU. He isan accounting faculty member and haspublished research in leading academicjournals on postretirement benefits, corporate restructuring and market-based accounting. Dean Regier earnedhis undergraduate degree in philosophyand mathematics from St. John’s College and his Ph.D. in accountancyfrom the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Timothy Renick

Timothy Renickis Vice Provost,Chief Enroll-ment Officerand Professorof ReligiousStudies at Georgia StateUniversity in Atlanta. A Phi

Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduateof Dartmouth College, Dr. Renick holdshis M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion fromPrinceton University. At Georgia State,he has served as Director of the HonorsProgram, chair of Religious Studies, andchair of the university’s Committee onAcademic Programs. Since 2008, he has


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overseen the university’s admissions,enrollment, scholarship, aid, and studentsuccess programs. During this time period, graduation rates have increasedby 10 points, success rates for underrep-resented students have increased by 18 points, and the University now ranksfirst in the nation in bachelor’s degreesconferred to African Americans. Dr.Renick is currently principal investigatoron three grants: from the National Sci-ence Foundation to study the impact ofunmet financial need on the academicperformance of STEM majors; from theTeagle Foundation for a multi-year studyof the religious studies major; and from Lumina/AASCU for a study of transfersuccess and degree completion withinthree academic disciplines. In 2002, he was given the Award for TeachingExcellence for the State of Georgia bythe Georgia Board of Regents, and in2004 he was named National Teacher of the Year in the field of Religion by the American Academy of Religion. His work on student retention has been featured in the Wall Street Journal,The Atlantic, and the Chronicle of Higher Education and on NPR, PBS and CNN.

Vivian Riefberg

Vivian Riefbergis a Director(Senior Partner)in the Washing-ton, DC office of McKinsey &Company, Inc.She leads thePublic Sectorpractice for

the Americas and is a co-leader of theFirm's Health Care Practice. She has led work in the areas of strategy devel-opment, performance improvement,marketing, organization and operationsacross the health care industry.

Since joining McKinsey more than 20years ago, Vivian has led major perform-ance improvement programs across various participants in the health carearena in the private, public and non-profit sectors. She is also one of theFirm’s leaders in health economics and

leads the ongoing work in understandingthe impact of government on the U.S.health care system, including with theMcKinsey Center for U.S. Health SystemReform. Her experience includes extensive work across industry partici-pants creating common utilities for payors such as payment, network contracting, and other functions.

A frequent contributor to leading indus-try publications including The McKinseyQuarterly and The Wall Street Journal,Vivian has authored or co-authoredmany articles – most recently she co-authored an Op-Ed in GovernmentExecutive, “Analysis: Don’t be fooled –this transition matters more than ever,”and “Three Imperatives for Improving US Healthcare.” Vivian currently serves on the Board of Directors of thePartnership for a Healthier America, anindependent, nonpartisan organizationthat mobilizes broad-based support for efforts to solve the child obesitychallenge, an outgrowth of the FirstLady’s Let’s Move campaign.

She served as a keynote speaker at numerous health care conferences. Inaddition, she served from 2000-2004 on the NIH Clinical Center Board of Governors and from 2004-2006 as amember of the NIH Advisory Board forClinical Research. She also served onthe Board of Directors of Mentors, Inc., a program for D.C. public high schoolstudents.

Prior to joining McKinsey & Company,Inc., Vivian worked as manager of mar-keting communications for AmericanMedical International where she devel-oped strategic marketing programs for 18 hospitals in 5 southern states.Additionally, she served as a projectmanager for a real estate developmentcompany and for several years as an account supervisor for Ogilvy & Mather.

Vivian has a B.A. magna cum laude inhistory from Harvard-Radcliffe Collegeand a M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.

J.R. Robles

Dr. Robles hasmore than 20years of experi-ence in thehigher educa-tion sector, asfaculty, admin-istrator and executive. Hehas won teach-

ing excellence awards and has publishedpapers on scientific computing applica-tions in biomedical and social sciences,with citations reaching triple digits in various impact indexes. He has authored numerous conference presen-tations, book chapters and white papersin research ethics, data managementand stewardship, and data visualization.He has also served as a consultant forlarge multinational corporations, smallbusinesses and non-profit organizations.

Dr Robles has implemented hundreds of statistical and artificial intelligence algorithms, including procedures to analyze Big Data, predictive analyticsand advanced text mining. He has partic-ipated in the design and implementationof several data repositories, decisionsupport systems, data warehouses andbusiness intelligence systems, includingelectronic medical records and massiveinstitutional databases.

Evolving from a strong quantitative andcomputational background, he has devel-oped his own data analysis philosophywith emphasis on visualization and rele-vancy of results. His unique reportingstyle is reflected in his institutional con-tributions to the higher education sector,custom reports for consulting clientsand contributions to online outlets(blogs, instructional materials, amongothers).

In recent years, Dr. Robles has carriedout several Big Data projects, includingCRM and social-media analysis, textmining of open-ended survey responses,and predictive analytics applied to col-lege enrollment forecasts and studentlife-cycle analysis (enrollment-attain-ment). His approach to college studentopinions as Big Data is at the core of hiscontribution for the CIHE conference.


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Richard Rodts

Richard Rodts is the Managerof the SolutionSpecialist Teamand managesGlobal Aca-demic Programsat IBM. He hasresponsibility towork with exec-

utives in education to implement Predic-tive Analytics to drive optimal outcomeswithin their institutions.

Prior to joining IBM, Richard worked indirector level positions within the Busi-ness Analytics space. Notable is his 9years as Director of Education for SPSSInc, a leading provider of predictive ana-lytics software and solutions where hedirected sales and marketing programinitiatives. Richard helped to transitionthe SPSS education business to IBM,ensuring the forty year legacy of SPSSin education was maintained while alsoproviding additional value to educationclients and solidifying the future strate-gic vision of the SPSS brand within IBM.

In his current role, Richard leads a teamof three staff to evangelize the impor-tance of predictive analytics within education, both from a functional per-spective as well as empowering futureanalytics leaders. Richard’s specificfocus is on helping education institutionsat all levels leverage the power of Pre-dictive Analytics to create more mean-ingful engagement with every student.

Richard lives in the Chicagoland areawith his wife Michele, their three chil-dren and Golden Retriever. When notworking, Richard likes to relax with family, travel, tinker with technology and take pictures.

Amy Scott

Amy Scott is anaward-winningjournalist andindependentdocumentaryfilmmaker. A familiar voice to public radiolisteners since

2001, she is currently the education cor-respondent for Marketplace, the busi-ness and economics show produced byAmerican Public Media. From 2003 to2010, she reported from Marketplace’sNew York bureau, focusing on the cul-ture of Wall Street, and becoming bureauchief in 2008.

In 2013 Scott received a Gracie awardfor a series on education and poverty. In 2012 Scott and Marketplace Chinacorrespondent Rob Schmitz won a national Edward R. Murrow award fortheir investigation of agencies that placeChinese students in U.S. colleges. Theirwork also won first prize for investiga-tive reporting from the Education Writers Association. Other honors include a 2010 National Headliner Awardand a special citation from the EducationWriters Association for an investigationof recruiting abuses at the University ofPhoenix, co-reported with SharonaCoutts of ProPublica. Scott also won aGracie award for feature reporting in2006.

Before joining Marketplace, Scott workedas a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska,home to the world’s largest wild sockeyesalmon run. She spends much of herfree time exploring Maryland’s hikingtrails and playing various musical instru-ments. She is a long-time student andperformer of Javanese gamelan music.

A native of Colorado Springs, Colo.,Scott has a bachelor’s degree in historyfrom Grinnell College and a master’s degree in journalism from the Universityof California, Berkeley, where she stud-ied documentary filmmaking. She livesin Baltimore.

Chris Shaffer

Chris came toShawnee StateUniversity fromthe Governor'sOffice of Appalachiaworking as aprogram man-ager and statealternate for the

governor of the state of Ohio to the Appalachian Regional Commission, regional economic development agencythat represents a partnership of federal,state, and local government. The com-mission represents the thirteen Appalachian states. He was also the operations manager in the Governor'sOffice of Faith Based and CommunityInitiatives. He served as a field artilleryplatoon leader, fire direction officer, andbattery executive officer. Chris alsospent time on brigade staff as an assis-tant operations officer and rear detach-ment executive officer. He is a combatveteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Hehonorably left military services as cap-tain in the United States Army. Shafferreceived his undergraduate degree atthe United States Military Academy atWest Point and received his MBA at OhioDominican University in Columbus, Ohio.

Naveen Sharma

Director ofComputing andInformationServices Laboratory andChief Innovation Officer, XeroxITO Group

Naveen Sharmadirects the

Computing and Information Services Lab (CISL) at the Xerox Research CenterWebster (XRCW). His technical leader-ship in distributed/cloud computing anddata intensive scalable computing playeda significant role in the formation ofCISL, which is broadly focused on research and development of scalablecomputing for business process anddocument solutions, big data analytics,and human computations.

In his current role, Naveen oversees awide range of research areas includinganalytics and large scale computing,business process and service comput-ing, HCI, software innovations, ethnogra-phy, and information technology solutions.He helped establish an offshore softwaredevelopment team for Xerox InnovationGroup, and also manages several activeopen innovation collaborations with a


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number of top research universities.

In his role as the Chief Innovation Offi-cer, Naveen is focused on IT services innovations focused on analytics, retail,and manufacturing verticals. He is alsoresponsible for participating in strategicdirections for ITO in light of emergingcompute paradigms such as cloud andautonomic systems.

Naveen joined the Xerox InnovationGroup (XIG) in 1994. He has extensiveexperience in technology transfer andthe delivery of product ready code toXerox business groups. Most of his proj-ects have included customer-focusedresearch and experimental systemsbuilding, and many have resulted in actual offerings being created or enhancements to existing offerings. Hehas spent time embedded within productgroups to understand their challengingtechnical issues.

Prior to joining Xerox, Naveen was a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Computational Science (ICM),Kent State University in Ohio, a positionfunded by a National Science FoundationHigher Performance Computing grant.

Naveen has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a doctoratein computer science. He holds more than25 U.S. patents and patent applications,and has published more than 28 research papers.

Alfred Spector

Alfred Spectorjoined Google in 2007 and isresponsible for research atGoogle and alsoGoogle’s opensource, univer-sity relations,internationaliza-

tion, and many education initiatives. Dr. Spector also is the executive engi-neering lead for Google.org, which applies Google's strengths in informationand technology to build products and advocate for policies that address globalchallenges. Dr. Spector speaks widelyon research and innovation, and spends

much time helping Google connect to theuniversity research community.

Previously, Dr. Spector was vice presi-dent of strategy and technology at IBM’sSoftware Business, and prior to that, hewas vice president of services and soft-ware research across IBM. He was alsofounder and CEO of Transarc Corpora-tion, a pioneer in distributed transactionprocessing and wide area file systems,and was an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie MellonUniversity, specializing in highly reliable,highly scalable distributed computing.

Dr. Spector received his Ph.D. in com-puter science from Stanford and a bachelor’s degree in applied mathemat-ics from Harvard. He is a member of theNational Academy of Engineering and aFellow of American Academy of Artsand Sciences, the IEEE and the ACM.Dr. Spector is also the recipient of the2001 IEEE Computer Society’s TsutomuKanai Award for work in scalable archi-tectures and distributed systems.

Clare van den Blink

As a member ofthe CIO’s lead-ership team atCornell Univer-sity, Clare is responsible for providingstrategic direc-tion and plan-

ning for academic technology services,facilitates the Faculty Advisory Board onInformation Technology, and works withcampus governance committees forlearning technologies, instructionalspace, and assessment. She directs theimplementation of research and pilotprojects for new and emerging learningtechnologies, and developed a learningtechnology evaluation methodology forthe Innovation in Teaching Program.

As the Director of Academic Technolo-gies, Clare manages the services, pro-grams and staff for course technologies,instructional labs, new media programs,instructional design and instructionalproject development.

Van den Blink has expertise in instruc-tional technology development and theevaluation of instructional technologywithin a learning environment, as wellas experience teaching in both tradi-tional classroom and online formats.

Vivek Wadhwa

Vivek Wadhwa isVice Presidentof Innovationand Research atSingularity Uni-versity; Fellow,Arthur & ToniRembe RockCenter for Corporate

Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and ResearchCommercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory Uni-versity. He is author of ”The ImmigrantExodus: Why America Is Losing theGlobal Race to Capture EntrepreneurialTalent” – which was named by The Econ-omist as a Book of the Year of 2012. Hewas named by Foreign Policy Magazineas Top 100 Global Thinker in 2012. In2013, TIME Magazine listed him as oneof The 40 Most Influential Minds in Tech.

Wadhwa oversees research at Singular-ity University, which educates a selectgroup of leaders about the exponentiallygrowing technologies that are soongoing to change our world. These advances – in fields such as robotics,A.I., computing, synthetic biology, 3Dprinting, medicine, and nanomaterials—are making it possible for small teams todo what was once possible only for gov-ernments and large corporations to do:solve the grand challenges in education,water, food, shelter, health, and security.

In his roles at Stanford, Duke, and Emoryuniversities, Wadhwa lectures in classon subjects such as entrepreneurshipand public policy, helps prepare studentsfor the real world, and leads ground-breaking research projects. He is an advisor to several governments; mentorsentrepreneurs; and is a regular colum-nist for The Washington Post, Wall Street


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Journal Accelerators, Bloomberg Busi-nessWeek, LinkedIn Influencers blog, andthe American Society of EngineeringEducation’s Prism magazine. Prior tojoining academia in 2005, Wadhwafounded two software companies.

Ellen Wagner

Ellen Wagner,Executive Director forWCET. She continues in herrole as Partnerand Founder of Sage RoadSolutions, LCC,providing advi-

sory oversight for industry intelligenceand enablement services and solutionspractices.

Ellen is the former senior director ofworldwide eLearning, Adobe Systems,Inc. and was senior director of world-wide education solutions for Macrome-dia, Inc. Prior to working in softwaresolutions marketing and product devel-opment, Ellen was Chief Learning Officer and Director of Education for Viviance new education, a Swiss-basedelearning company with offices in 10North American and European countries.She was Chief Learning Officer and VPof Consulting Services for Informania,Inc. prior to its acquisition by Viviance.

Before joining the private sector, Ellenwas a tenured Professor and Chair ofthe Educational Technology program atthe University of Northern Colorado, andheld a number of administrative posts,including Director of the Western Insti-tute for Distance Education and Coordi-nator of Campus Instructional andResearch Technologies, Academic Affairs. She was a Visiting Scholar withWCET, formerly the Western Cooperativefor Education Telecommunications whileon sabbatical leave from UNC. Her Ph.D.in learning psychology comes from theUniversity of Colorado - Boulder. HerM.S. and B.A. degrees were earned atthe University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Hao Wang

Dr. Wang isSUNY Chief Information Officer. He pro-vides strategicand operationalleadership forthe governance,development,and execution of

SUNY-wide information and technologystrategy. He leads the SUNY-wide infor-mation technology transformation to assist and enable SUNY’s core missionand business strategy. Dr. Wang alsoleads the strategy and operation of infor-mation and technology innovation forThe Research Foundation for SUNY, assisting the RF’s and SUNY’s strategyfor the growth of basic, translational, and clinical research.

Prior to joining SUNY and the RF, Haowas a managing director of Accenture,leading Accenture’s healthcare practicein Greater China. Before Accenture, Dr. Wang worked as the Deputy Commis-sioner and Chief Information Officer inthe New York State Office of MentalHealth (OMH), setting policies and direc-tion for information and technology man-agement for OMH’s central office, fieldoperations, 26 psychiatric hospitals, 2 research institutes, and more than 300 outpatient facilities.

Hao served as a member of the steeringcommittee for New York State IT Trans-formation strategic initiatives. He waselected into the NYS CIO Council Lead-ership Committee, co-chaired the NYSEnterprise Architecture Committee, andprovided thought leadership on State-wide Enterprise Architecture, Data andInformation Governance, Master DataManagement, Government Health Archi-tecture, data sharing, and cloud computing.

Over the years, Hao was appointed into the adjunct faculty of Columbia University, SUNY Albany, and TsinghuaUniversity School of Public Policy andManagement. He earned his Ph.D. fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT) and Master in Public Administra-tion (MPA) from Harvard University. Healso has a Master in Science from theUniversity of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a bachelor’s degree from PekingUniversity.

Ben Wildavsky

Ben Wildavskyis director ofhigher educa-tion studies atthe State Uni-versity of NewYork’s Rocke-feller Instituteof Government,and policy pro-

fessor at SUNY-Albany. A former seniorscholar at the Kauffman Foundation andguest scholar at the Brookings Institu-tion, he is the author of the award-win-ning book The Great Brain Race: HowGlobal Universities Are Reshaping theWorld. He is also the co-editor of Rein-venting Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation. His articles have appearedin the Washington Post, the Wall StreetJournal, Foreign Policy, the New Republic,the Atlantic, and many other publica-tions. Wildavsky, a former education editor of U.S. News & World Report, hasspoken to dozens of audiences in theUnited States and abroad, including atGoogle, Harvard, and the World Bank. He has convened gatherings of national education leaders, supervised the editorial operations of the best-sellingU.S. News college guides, and managed a $2.5 million foundation grant portfolio.As a strategic and editorial consultant,he has provided advice to educationleaders and has written influential policyreports, including the report of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education.


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IrvingWladawsky-Berger

Dr. IrvingWladawsky-Berger retiredfrom IBM in Mayof 2007 after a37 year careerwith the com-pany, where his

primary focus was on innovation andtechnical strategy. He led a number ofIBM’s companywide initiatives includingthe Internet and e-business, supercom-puting and Linux. In his emeritus role, he has continued to collaborate with thecompany on major new market strate-gies like Cloud Computing and SmartCities.

In March of 2008, Dr. Wladawsky-Berger joined Citi as Strategic Advisor,working on innovation and technologyinitiatives including the transition to mobile digital money and payments.Since 2005 he has been writing aweekly blog, irvingwb.com, and in Aprilof 2012 he became a regular contributorto the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal.

He is Visiting Lecturer at MIT’s SloanSchool of Management and EngineeringSystems Division, Adjunct Professor inthe Innovation and EntrepreneurshipGroup at the Imperial College BusinessSchool, Executive-in-Residence atNYU’s Center for Urban Science andProgress (CUSP), a member of the Advisory Board of USC’s Annenberg

Innovation Lab, and Senior Fellow at theLevin Institute of the State University ofNew York. He was cochair of PITAC, –the President’s Information TechnologyAdvisory Committee. A native of Cuba,he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph. D. in physics from theUniversity of Chicago.

Nancy L. Zimpher

In June 2009Nancy L. Zimpher became the 12th Chancellorof The StateUniversity ofNew York. With more than

467,000 students, SUNY is the nation’slargest comprehensive system of highereducation.

Chancellor Zimpher began her work atSUNY with a statewide tour of SUNY’s64 campuses, which became the first phase of a systemwide strategic planning process. This plan, called ThePower of SUNY, was launched in April2010, with the central goal of harnessingSUNY’s potential to drive economic revitalization and create a better futurefor every community across New York.

As The Power of SUNY is put into action,Chancellor Zimpher is leading a diverseset of new initiatives at SUNY in several

key areas, including research andinnovation, energy, health care, globalaffairs, and the education pipeline. Shehas also been a vocal advocate forgroundbreaking legislative reforms thatensure SUNY can continue to providebroad access to higher education in anenvironment of declining state support,while maximizing its impact as an engine of economic development.

Dr. Zimpher currently serves as chair of the Board of Governors of the NewYork Academy of Sciences and of CEOs for Cities; is vice chair of theNCAA Collegiate Model Enforcementsub-committee; and is a member of the Business-Higher Education Forum.From 2005 to 2011, Dr. Zimpher chairedthe national Coalition of Urban ServingUniversities.

Prior to coming to SUNY, Dr. Zimpherserved as president of the University ofCincinnati, chancellor of the Universityof Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and executivedean of the Professional Colleges anddean of the College of Education at TheOhio State University. She has authoredor co-authored numerous books, monographs, and academic journal articles on teacher education, urban education, academic leadership, andschool/university partnerships.

Chancellor Zimpher holds a bachelor’sdegree in English Education and Speech,a master’s degree in English Literature,and a Ph.D. in Teacher Education andHigher Education Administration, allfrom The Ohio State University.


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Local, state, and national economies are facing unprecedented levels of international competition. The current fiscal crisis has hampered the ability of many governments

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This book brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to assess how universities and colleges exert impact on economic growth. The contributors consider various methodologies, metrics, and data sources that may be used to gauge the performance of diverse higher education institutions in improving economic outcomes in the United States and around the world. Also presented are new typologies of economic development activities and related state policies that are designed to improve understanding of such initiatives and generate new energy and focus for an international community of scholars and practitioners working to formulate new models for how public universities and colleges may lead economic development in their states and communities while still performing their traditional educational functions.

Universities and Colleges as Economic Drivers is meant to cultivate greater understanding among elected officials, business representatives, policymakers, and other concerned parties about the central roles universities and colleges play in national, state, and local economies.

Jason E. Lane s Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs and Planning and Associate Provost for Graduate Education and Research at the State University of New York, Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, and Associate Professor of Educational Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York.D. Bruce Johnstone is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Higher and Comparative Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and former Chancellor of the State University of New York. Both have published several books focusing on both US and international higher education.

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Enhancing Operations and ManagementFor decades, institutional research offices have beencollecting student data to analyze things such as retention and graduation rates. As technology rapidly continuesto evolve, the breadth and depth of data available tocampuses is growing. Student ID cards allow institutionsto track library usage, dining habits on and off campus, health center usage, medical treatments, attendance atco-curricular activities, and what residence halls or class-rooms they access. Course management software can monitor student grades, which students access course material and for how long, and provide real-time learning assessments. Colleges and universities also generate the same infrastructure information that many cities are now using to improve their own effectiveness. This includes data created by parking enforcement, pedestrian patterns, traffic flows, energy usage, and recycling efforts. The data is massive and the possibilities for ingenuity are endless.

Improving the Education PipelineOver the last several years, there has been a growing interest both inside and outside of the academy to better insulate the education pipeline, seeking to promote ac-cess, completion, and success of our students. There have been a growing number of efforts to capture and use data to better understand where students are coming from,how they experience college, and where they go after graduating. Moreover, new analytical methods beingdeveloped inside and outside of the academy are being used to transform the student experience and betterinsulate the pipeline.

Educating the Next Generation of Data ScientistsIn grappling with the big data title wave, one of the most important roles of colleges and universities will be to prepare the next generation of data scientists, which the Harvard Business Review has called “the sexy new job of the 21st century.” Already faculty have led the develop-ment of advanced analytical methods needed to use big data, transforming the way some teach and research.As the need for data scientists grows, colleges anduniversities should be at the forefront of training theworkforce for these next generation careers.

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Jason E. Lane is Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs and Planning and Associate Provost forGraduate Education and Research at the State University of New York, Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Instituteof Government, and Associate Professor of Educational Policy at the University at Albany, State University ofNew York.

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