Presenters

Keynote Speaker

Thomas Bailey

Director, CAPSEE and Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Plenary Panelists

Sandy Baum

Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
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Clive Belfield

Professor, Queens College, City University of New York; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Anthony Carnevale

Research Professor and Director, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
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Michael Collins

Associate Vice President for Postsecondary State Policy, Jobs for the Future
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David Deming

Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Tristan Denley

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Tennessee Board of Regents
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John Friedman

Associate Professor, Brown University
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Harry Holzer

Professor, Georgetown University
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James Jacobs

President, Macomb Community College
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Davis Jenkins

Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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William Law

President, St. Petersburg College
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Laura Perna

Professor and Executive Director of the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, University of Pennsylvania
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Catherine Rampell

Opinion Columnist, The Washington Post
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Judith Scott-Clayton

Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Breakout Speakers

Peter Riley Bahr

Associate Professor, University of Michigan; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Clive Belfield

Professor, Queens College, City University of New York; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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James Benson

Education Research Analyst, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Research
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Eric Bettinger

Associate Professor, Stanford University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Kevin Carey

Director, Education Policy Program, New America Foundation
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Scott Carlson

Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Stephanie Riegg Cellini

Associate Professor, The George Washington University
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Rajashri Chakrabarti

Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Kevin Dougherty

Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

Reporter, The Washington Post
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Nikki Edgecombe

Senior Research Scientist, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Paul Fain

News Editor, Inside Higher Ed
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Karin Fischer

Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Jeffrey Fletcher

Senior Research Assistant, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Michel Grosz

Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Davis
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Shanna Smith Jaggars

Director of Student Success Research, Office of Distance Education and E-Learning, The Ohio State University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Davis Jenkins

Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Arne Kalleberg

Professor, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Michal Kurlaender

Professor, University of California, Davis; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Vivian Yuen Ting Liu

Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Bridget Long

Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Veronica Minaya

Researcher, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Rina Seung Eun Park

Senior Research Assistant, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Allen Ruby

Associate Commissioner for Policy and Systems, National Center for Education Research
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Jasmine Sanders

MA Candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Jessica Scheld

Assistant Professor, Lynchburg College
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Lauren Schudde

Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Judith Scott-Clayton

Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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Adela Soliz

Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
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Madeline Joy Trimble

Data Analyst, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Lesley Turner

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
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Qiao “Anna” Wen

Senior Research Assistant, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
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David Wessel

Senior Fellow, Brookings
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Mark Wiederspan

Assistant Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University
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Liz Willen

Editor-in-Chief, The Hechinger Report
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Di Xu

Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
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