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The Higher Education Forum

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The Forum, a collaboration of higher education leaders and scholars, launched in 1984 and moved to the Academy in 2022. The Higher Education Forum is an opportunity for the Academy to provide leadership and learning on pressing issues in higher education with a cross-disciplinary and cross-sector approach that draws on the strengths of its members and Affiliates.

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The Higher Education Forum, a collaboration of higher education leaders and scholars, launched in 1984 and moved to the Academy in 2022. The Higher Education Forum is an opportunity for the Academy to provide leadership and learning on pressing issues in higher education with an interdisciplinary and cross-sector approach that draws on the strengths of its members and Affiliates.    

Forum activities, including an annual meeting at Aspen, are an opportunity to bring together Academy Affiliate leaders and other higher education stakeholders to discuss the most pressing matters facing campus communities and society more broadly. The Academy is proud to continue the tradition of hosting the annual Higher Education Forum meeting in Aspen.

The activities of the Forum are guided by Academy experts and leaders within higher education including: the Higher Education Forum Advisory Committee, Academy Affiliates, and Academy members. Importantly, the Forum engages the Academy’s Affiliates, comprised of colleges, universities, and cultural and scientific institutions who, united in their commitment to advancing the common good, work with the Academy to address issues of both timely and abiding concern.  

The Forum is the newest addition to the Academy’s work in higher education. Recent related work includes The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education, The Lincoln Project, and The Humanities Indicators, which provides researchers and policymakers with reliable, nonpartisan data – including in higher education – and has been underway at the Academy since 2009. 

The Forum furthers the Academy’s education portfolio by providing opportunities to be nimbler and more experimental in response to issues that matter to higher education as they develop, while also informing the Academy’s longer-term work in higher education. 

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News & Updates

Laurie L. Patton Profile
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Announcing Laurie L. Patton as the Next President of the Academy

Laurie L. Patton, the President of Middlebury College, has been named the next president of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Elected to the Academy in 2018, she is a distinguished scholar of religion, an author or editor of ten books, a published poet, and a highly accomplished college and university leader.
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The Higher Education Forum at the Academy

The Academy’s second annual convening of The Higher Education Forum was held in Aspen, CO, in June 2023. More than one hundred higher education experts and leaders, including university presidents, provosts, and deans from many of the Academy’s Affiliate institutions as well as several Academy members, engaged in an array of topics.
Events

Events

Jun 10-13, 2024

Higher Education Forum 2024

Featuring Sandy Baum, Gilda A. Barabino, Michael Bennett, David Campbell, Shirley M. Collado, Katherine J. Cramer, Michael M. Crow, Sean M. Decatur, David DeSwert, Alain-Philippe Durand, Susan M. Dynarski, Adam F. Falk, Kaye G. Husbands Fealing, L. Kealoha Fox, Joan T.A. Gabel, Howard Gillman, Jonathan Haidt, Sara Hebel , Fiona Hill, Xuedong Huang, Rishi Jaitly, John B. King, Jr., Bridget Terry Long, Jon Marcus, Steven W. McLaughlin, Michael S. McPherson, Angela Villela Olinto, David W. Oxtoby, Lynn Pasquerella, Avis Proctor, Francesca Purcell, L. Song Richardson, Elizabeth H. Simmons, Blanton Tolbert, Frances Ward-Johnson, Sisi Wei, Ben Wildavsky, and Teresa K. Woodruff
Aspen, CO
Jun 12-15, 2023

Forum on the Future of Higher Education 2023

Featuring Mark Becker , Brandon Busteed , Nancy E. Cantor, Lynn W. Chang, Julio Frenk, Ann M. Fudge, Helene D. Gayle, Jason Gonzales , Hahrie C. Han, Sara Hebel , Mary Dana Hinton, Kaye G. Husbands Fealing, William Jarvis , Sonia K. Katyal, Earl Lewis, Goodwin Liu, Michael L. Lomax , Gary S. May, Jamie Merisotis, John C. Mitchell, Jennifer L. Mnookin, David W. Oxtoby, Bobby Pace , Laurie L. Patton, Jessica Pisano , Vincent E. Price, Emelia Probasco , Madeline Pumariega , Cybele Raver , Nabiha Syed , John Shattuck, Geoffrey Richard Stone, Ayanna Thompson, Ben Vinson, and Harry Williams
Aspen, CO
Jun 13-16, 2022

Forum on the Future of Higher Education 2022

Featuring David W. Oxtoby, Rachel Barr, Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Michelene T.H. Chi, José Luis Cruz Rivera, John J. DeGioia, Wendy Fischman , Wayne A. I. Frederick , Kimberly Griffin , Jonathan Scott Holloway, Lloyd Holmes, Alexandra Hrycak, Jodie Adams Kirshner, Nicholas B. Lemann, Susanna Loeb, Paula D. McClain, Maurie McInnis, Joel W. Meyerson, Ted Mitchell , Eduardo J. Padrón, John G. Palfrey, Seth D. Pollak, OiYan Poon, Barbara Snyder, Talia Stroud , Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, David G. Victor, Natasha Warikoo, Ruth V. Watkins, Elke U. Weber, and David Kwabena Wilson
Aspen, CO
Project Information

Activities of the Forum are made possible through major grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and TIAA, along with the generous support of these sponsors:  Bank of America, Barclays, BrandEd, Kaplan, Inc., and United Educators.  We are also grateful to David C. Weinstein, whose generosity supports the Academy’s work in Education.

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