2007 Annual Meeting Featured Speakers
Program for Presidents and Trustees Plenary
Saturday, April 21, 2007, 5:15 - 7:00 pm
John D. Wiley, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BIOGRAPHY
Chancellor John D. Wiley has more than four decades of experience with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, having been a graduate student, a professor, and an administrator during his illustrious university career. Assuming office on January 1, 2001, he is the 27th person to lead the university since its founding in 1848.
As UW–Madison’s chief executive officer, Wiley is responsible for the overall vision and direction of the university. He represents the institution for a variety of constituents, including alumni groups, chambers of commerce and service clubs, the state legislature and governmental bodies, the UW System Administration, and the UW System Board of Regents. A prominent figure in higher education, he chairs both the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors and the board for the Council on Higher Education Accreditation, and is a member of the National Security Higher Education Advisory Committee. He also serves on several local and community boards, including the William T. Evjue Foundation and the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce. He also has been deeply involved in fundraising from individual and corporate donors and charitable foundations.
From 1994–2000, Wiley served as UW–Madison’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. In this role as the university’s chief operating officer and deputy chancellor, he worked closely with deans, faculty, academic staff, and student committees in the exercise of shared governance and the overall management of the institution. Prior to becoming provost, he was dean of the Graduate School and the university’s senior research officer, and from 1986–89, he served as associate dean for research in the College of Engineering.
Wiley received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Indiana University in 1964. He attended graduate school at UW–Madison as a National Science Foundation Fellow, receiving master’s and doctoral degrees in physics in 1965 and 1968, respectively. He joined the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N.J., from 1968–1974, and then spent a year at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany as an awardee of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Service Award for Research and Training.
Joining the UW–Madison faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in August 1975, Wiley began a productive career in teaching and research, focusing on topics related to semiconductors and other materials and processes important to the electronics field. He is a co-founder of several highly successful research centers, including the Center for X-ray Lithography and the Engineering Research Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing. From 1982-86, he chaired the Materials Science Program, a graduate-level, interdepartmental-committee program for master’s and doctoral degrees.
Presidents Luncheon Presentation
Presidential and Trustee Leadership for the Common Good: Why Me? Why Now?
Sunday, April 22, 2007, 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Elizabeth Hollander, Executive Director of Campus Compact
BIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Hollander is the Executive Director of Campus Compact. Prior to her appointment to this position in 1997, Hollander served as Executive Director of the Monsignor John J. Egan Urban Center at DePaul University, which works with the University to address critical urban problems, alleviate poverty, and promote social justice in the metropolitan community through teaching, service, and scholarship. She also was the President of the Government Assistance Program in Illinois and the Director of Planning for the city of Chicago under Mayor Harold Washington. While in Chicago, Hollander served on the Boards of Trustees at Chicago State University and the Illinois Institute of Technology. From 1992 to 2004, she served on the Truman Regional Scholarship Committee. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Hollander also serves on the Advisory Board of the online Journal of College and Character, the American Committee of the International Consortium on Higher Education, the Advisory Board of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the University of Maryland, the Board of the National Civic League. Hollander received an honorary doctorate from Millikin University in 2001, and DePaul University in 2003.
 Keynote Address of the General Program
Making the Case for Higher Education in the 21st Century: Our Four Mistakes
Monday, April 23, 2007, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Larry Edward Penley, President, Colorado State University
Chancellor, Colorado State University System
Dr. Larry Edward Penley is the 13th president of Colorado State University and Chancellor of the Colorado State University System. Before joining Colorado State in 2003, he served as dean of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where he also held the Robert Herberger Arizona Heritage Chair. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Wake Forest University and a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Georgia. He has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela, and the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico.
Since taking the helm at Colorado State in 2003, Dr. Penley has propelled the university’s private fund-raising to record levels, launched a comprehensive strategic- planning effort to better position the CSU System for success, and has fostered closer relationships with federal research partners, private donors, the statewide business community, international universities, and key global industries. He has placed new emphasis on the Honors Program, international exchange opportunities for students, economic development efforts, outreach, and other measures to enhance Colorado State’s commitment to academic excellence and achievement.
In addition to his duties as president and chancellor, Dr. Penley serves on the Commission on Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Higher Education, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Advisory Council, the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture-Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU) Leadership Group, the Institute of International Education/Rocky Mountain Board of Directors, the NCAA Task Force on the Future of Athletics, the Colorado Education Alignment Council, the Mountain States Employers Council Board of Directors and Audit Committee, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Board, the Northern Colorado Economic Development Corporation Board, the Conseil d’Orientation du Groupe ESC Toulouse, and as an advisory board member for Hartsook and Associates. He is past chairman of AACSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International) and the Academy of Management Organizational Communication Division.
He and his wife, Dr. Yolanda Sanchez Penley, have two adult children, Jo Anna and Jonathan.
Second General Session of the General Program
Five Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Decade Ahead
Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 8:30 - 9:15 am
Arthur Levine, President, The Woodrow Wilson Foundation
BIOGRAPHY
Arthur Levine is the sixth president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Before his appointment at Woodrow Wilson, he was president and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He also previously served as chair of the higher education program, chair of the Institute for Educational Management, and senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Dr. Levine is the author of dozens of articles and reviews. His most recent book is When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today’s College Student (with Jeanette S. Cureton). Among other volumes are Beating the Odds: How the Poor Get to College (with Jana Nidiffer); Higher Learning in America; Shaping Higher Education’s Future; When Dreams and Heroes Died: A Portrait of Today’s College Students; Handbook on Undergraduate Curriculum; Quest for Common Learning (with Ernest Boyer); Opportunity in Adversity (with Janice Green); and Why Innovation Fails. Much of his research and writing in recent years has focused on increasing access to higher education and improving equity in the schools. Dr. Levine’s numerous opinion editorials appear in such publications as The New York Times; The Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post; and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Dr. Levine has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, as well as the American Council on Education’s “Book of the Year” award (for Reform of Undergraduate Education), the Educational Press Association’s “Annual Award” for writing (three times), and 17 honorary degrees. In 1998 Change magazine listed him as “One of the Most Outstanding Leaders in the Academic Community.” He currently sits on the Boards of Blackboard, Inc., DePaul University, and All Kinds of Minds. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Levine was also previously President of Bradford College (1982-1989) and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation and Carnegie Council for Policy Studies in Higher Education (1975-1982). He received his bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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