Presenters
Plenary Panelists
Thomas Bailey
Director, CAPSEE & Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
Sandy Baum
Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute; Research Professor of Education Policy, George Washington University
Thomas W. Brock
Commissioner, National Center for Education Research
Jack Buckley
Senior Vice President of Research, College Board
Kevin Carey
Director, Education Policy Program, New America Foundation
Anthony P. Carnevale
Director and Research Professor, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
David Deming
Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Brian Jacob
Professor of Education Policy and Co-Director of the Education Policy Initiative, University of Michigan; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Nate Johnson
Owner and Principal Consultant, Postsecondary Analytics
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
David A. Longanecker
President, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Michael L. Reeser
Chancellor, Texas State Technical College System
Eva Sage-Gavin
Vice Chair, Skills for America’s Future Advisory Board
Mark S. Schneider
Vice President and Institute Fellow, American Institutes for Research
Judith Scott-Clayton
Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Karen A. Stout
President, Montgomery County Community College
Jamienne Studley
Deputy Under Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education
Breakout Speakers
Julian L. Alssid
Chief Workforce Strategist, College for America at Southern New Hampshire University
Ben Backes
Researcher, Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research Program, American Institutes for Research
Clive Belfield
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Colin Chellman
Associate Dean, Institutional and Policy Research, City University of New York
Kevin J. Dougherty
Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Columbia University, Teachers College
Michael Dunn
Doctoral Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan Dynarski
Professor of Economics, Education, and Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Michel Grosz
Doctoral Student, Economics, University of California, Davis
Robert "Butch" Grove
Associate Vice President for Creativity, Sustainability, and College Improvement, Wake Technical Community College
Carolin Hagelskamp
Vice President, Director of Research, Public Agenda
Joshua Hawley
Associate Professor, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
Maria Hesse
Vice Provost for Academic Partnerships, Arizona State University
Harry Holzer
Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Cheryl L. Hyman
Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
James Jacobs
President, Macomb Community College
Shanna Smith Jaggars
Assistant Director, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Davis Jenkins
Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Peter R. Jones
Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Criminal Justice, Temple University
Arne Kalleberg
Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Melinda Mechur Karp
Assistant Director for Staff and Institutional Development, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
Andrew Kelly
Director, Center on Higher Education Reform, American Enterprise Institute
Patrick Kelly
Senior Associate, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
Michal Kurlaender
Associate Professor, School of Education, University of California, Davis; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Vivian Yuen Ting Liu
Senior Research Assistant, CAPSEE & Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
Veronica Minaya
Senior Research Assistant, CAPSEE & Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
Iris Palmer
Senior Policy Analyst, National Governors Association
Toby Park
Assistant Professor of Economics of Education and Education Policy, Florida State University
Patrick Perry
Executive Vice Chancellor, California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
Travis Reindl
Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Policy and Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Alex Ruder
Research Project Manager and Data Scientist, Rutgers University, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Lauren Schudde
Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE
Adela Soliz
Doctoral Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Robert G. Templin, Jr.
President, Northern Virginia Community College
Madeline Joy Trimble
Data Analyst, CAPSEE & Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
Lesley J. Turner
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; Faculty Associate, Maryland Population Research Center
Michelle Van Noy
Research Project Manager, Rutgers University, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Christina Whitfield
Vice Chancellor for Research and Analysis, Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Mark Wiederspan
Doctoral Student in Public Policy in Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan
Joshua Wyner
Executive Director, Aspen Institute College Excellence Program
Di Xu
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CAPSEE