Redefining What a "Good" College Is
Event
This year, New America celebrates 20 years of creating and incubating the next big ideas that address some of the nation's and the world’s toughest problems. We are thinkers, researchers, problem-solvers, and storytellers, united by our goal to hold our nation to its highest ideals. We recognize the challenges presented by rapid technological and social change, and work to ensure that the solutions made possible by those changes lead to greater opportunity for all. As we reach forward toward the next 20 years of New America, we will strive to be an engine of American renewal, at home and abroad.
For decades, a college or university was considered “good” if it was exclusive, wealthy, and prestigious—like a country club, but with lectures instead of golf. But under political and market pressures, that definition is beginning to shift to schools that do good—by providing quality degrees at reasonable prices to non-wealthy students while encouraging those students to become engaged citizens.
Please join New America and the Washington Monthly for a pair of panel discussions with individuals on the cutting edge of this shift, as featured in the Washington Monthly’s newly-released 2019 College Guide and Rankings.
Follow the conversation online using #WaMoCollegeGuide and following @NewAmericaEd and @monthly.
Lunch will be served.
Agenda:
11:00-11:02 AM: Welcome
Kevin Carey, @kevincarey1
Vice President, Knowledge Management & Education Policy, New America
11:02-11:10 AM: Opening Remarks
Chauncy Lennon, @ChauncyLennon
Vice President for Future of Learning and Work, Lumina Foundation
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM: Panel 1
George Bridges, @GeorgeSBridges
President, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Kassie Phebillo, @kassie_pbo
TX Votes Program Coordinator
University of Texas at Austin's Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life
Anne Kim, @Anne_S_Kim
Contributing Editor, Washington Monthly
Paul Glastris, @glastris (moderator)
Editor in Chief, Washington Monthly
12:10-12:30 PM: Lunch
12:30-1:30 PM: Panel 2
Melissa Curry, @Microsoft
Program Manager, Microsoft
Joyce Hammer, @CCBlazers
Vice President of Instruction, Centralia College
Grace Gedye, @GraceGedye
Associate Editor, Washington Monthly
Mary Alice McCarthy, @McCarthyEdWork (moderator)
Director, Center on Education & Skills, Education Policy Program, New America