General Sessions 2008

Commission on Institutions of Higher Education Assessment Forum
Wednesday and Thursday, December 3 and 4

Keynote Speakers:
Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice President, Tufts University, MA 
Terry Hartle, Senior Vice President, Division of Government and Public Affairs, American Council on Education, Washington, DC
 

Annual Meeting General Sessions
Thursday, December 4

Plenary Address – 1:00 p.m.
Greg Mortenson
Humanitarian and Author, Three Cups of Tea
Charles W. Eliot Award Recipient for 2008
> biography
>Mortenson videoclip

Reception – 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Banquet – 6:30 p.m.
Presentation of the Richard J. Bradley Award
Michael Savage, Executive Director, CAS/CIAC

Address
Ruth Simmons
President, Brown University
> biography
>Simmons Address: "The Chance of a Century: Fulfilling the Public Trust in a Time of Crisis"
 

Annual Meeting General Sessions
Friday, December 5

Luncheon – 12:00 noon

Address
Linda Greenhouse
Pulitzer Prize winnng, former New York Times Supreme Court Journalist; author, Becoming Justice Blackmun
>biography
>Greenhouse Address: Counting on Citizenship

Charles W. Eliot Award Recipient for 2008
United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy
(Senator Kennedy will not be present to accept the award)
>biography