When the Foundation Cracks: How can rebuild to solve the problems of Higher Ed?

Maria Anguiano is the executive vice president of ASU Learning Enterprise. She is a board member of the Board of Regents for the University of California system, and James Irvine and KIPP foundations.

Ann Kirschner’s career has covered a lot of territory, from the classroom to the boardroom.  As an entrepreneur, she was a senior executive of five technology start-ups including NFL.COM and NFL SUNDAY TICKET, and FATHOM, one of the first online learning companies.  During her academic career, she was Dean of Macaulay Honors College and University Professor at the City University of New York. She is an independent board director for Movado and Noodle and other companies and is a strategic advisor to Arizona State University and on the advisory board of Chegg and World Quant University. She is a former trustee of Princeton University, where she co-chairs the Princeton Graduate School Leadership Council. She co-chairs the board of Footsteps and serves on the board of NYC First and the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation. Her writings include the award-winning book Sala’s Gift, the story of her mother’s wartime rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps, and Lady at the OK Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp, wife of famed lawman Wyatt Earp. Her articles on technology, media, and education have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and she is a contributing writer to Forbes. A graduate of the University of Buffalo and University of Virginia, Ann Kirschner received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities.

Ben Wildavsky is a veteran higher education strategist, writer, editor, speaker, convener, and podcast host. His decades of experience in journalism and education policy include leadership roles at Strada Education Network, the College Board, and U.S. News & World Report. He is an award-winning book author (“The Great Brain Race”) with bylines in many national magazines and newspapers, including the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Post. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia and is a former think tank and foundation scholar at the Brookings Institution, the Rockefeller Institute of Government, and the Kauffman Foundation. He has been a speaker on globalization and higher education innovation in 16 U.S. states and 10 foreign countries, including events at Google, the World Bank, the OECD in Paris, and the London School of Economics. He is a past blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Education and Education Sector.