ITHAKA: The Next Wave 2017

Innovating and Adapting to Address Today’s Higher Education Challenges

America’s universities and colleges are being challenged to improve educational attainment, while also facing declining public support and increasing income inequality. Improving educational attainment requires that leaders in higher education experiment, pursue new approaches, and work together with colleagues inside and beyond our institutions in creative ways.

At the Next Wave 2017, we will convene leaders from academic libraries, publishing, technology, and higher education to reflect on innovations and collaborations happening across higher education and on how our existing frameworks must continue to adapt to address higher education’s overarching challenge: getting more people educated at lower cost. What can we learn from what’s working and what’s not? How do our existing frameworks need to adapt? What other barriers must be overcome for new approaches to take hold? Are there success stories worth championing and adopting at your institutions?

Agenda and Speakers

Registration and a light breakfast starting at 8:00 AM.

9-9:15 Welcome and Introductions

• Will Fenton, Elizabeth R. Moran Fellow, American Philosophical Society; Teaching Associate, Fordham University; and Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
  
• Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA

9:15-10:15 Keynote

• Clay Shirky, Vice Provost for Educational Technologies, New York University

Network with your colleagues from 10:15 - 10:45.

10:45-12:00 At the Leading Edge: Transformation and Innovation

• Gordon Jones, Founding Dean, College of Innovation and Design, Boise State University
• Michael Koby, Associate Dean, International & Graduate Programs, Washington University Law
• Meredith Woo, President, Sweet Briar College

We will enjoy a luncheon together from 12:00 - 1:00 PM.

1:00-1:45 The Provost Perspective: Emerging Strategies and Gaining Alignment

• Marni Baker Stein, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Western Governors University
• Neil Weissman, Provost, Dickinson College

1:45-2:45 Research: New Workflows and Frameworks

• Arnold Hirshon, Associate Provost and University Librarian, Case Western Reserve University
• Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director for Strategic Initiatives, Association of Research Libraries
• Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka S+R Director Libraries and Scholarly Communications, ITHAKA

Network with your colleagues from 2:45 - 3:15.

3:15-4:15 Teaching: Understanding Students and Helping Them Succeed

• Alan Bearman, Dean of University Libraries and the Center for Student Success and Retention, Washburn University
• Stella Flores, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of Access and Equity, Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, New York University
• Jade Winn, Assistant Dean for Instruction, Assessment & Engagement and Associate University Librarian, Programs, Planning & Assessment Unit, USC Libraries

4:15-5:15 Publishing: Building New Capacities

• Darcy Cullen, Assistant Director, Acquisitions, UBC Press
• Alan Harvey, Director, Stanford University Press
• John Sherer, Director, University of North Carolina Press
• Donald Waters, Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

5:15-5:30 Closing

Join us for a reception beginning at 5:30 PM and ending at 7:00 PM.

Registration and Hotel Information

Invited guests are asked to register for the event.

Our special room rate with the Roosevelt Hotel at $279 per night plus taxes and fees closed on October 28, 2017. You may still make your reservation at the hotel online using this link, or by calling (888) 833-3969 but current rates will apply.

Questions

Please reach out to Heidi McGregor, VP, Communications at ITHAKA.