Dual-Mission Summit

A Dual-Mission Model is the intentional merging of community-technical colleges and four-year universities under one roof, or where community colleges offer four-year degrees. Utah has long been at the forefront of this movement, pioneering a dual-mission model of higher education at several of its regional universities.

Subsequently, the focus of the summit is for national and international experts to explore the dual-mission model in detail, discussing its possibilities and limitations as states tackle higher education’s challenges and seek to maximize finite resources while providing necessary training and programs to sustain and grow the workforce and economy.

Jamie Merisotis is a globally recognized leader in philanthropy, education, human work and talent development, and public policy. He has been Lumina’s president and CEO since 2008. He previously was co-founder and president of the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Higher Education Policy and also served as executive director of a bipartisan national commission on college affordability appointed by the U.S. president and congressional leaders. Merisotis is the author of the acclaimed book America Needs Talent, named a Top 10 Business book of 2016 by Booklist, and his second book, Human Work: In the Age of Smart Machines, was just released in October. He is often requested as a media commentator and contributor. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Journal, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Washington Monthly, Politico, Roll Call, and other publications.

Merisotis has extensive global experience as an advisor and consultant in southern Africa, the former Soviet Union, Europe, and other parts of the world. A respected analyst and innovator, Merisotis is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and holds honorary degrees from several universities and colleges. Merisotis also is a trustee for a diverse array of organizations around the world. He serves as chairman of the Council on Foundations and is a past chairman of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the world’s largest museum for children. He also is on the board of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership and serves as a special adviser to the executive committee of the London-based European Access Network.

Davis Jenkins is a senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College. He works with colleges, schools, community groups and employers in communities and states across the country to find ways to improve educational and employment outcomes for students from groups that have been poorly served by the U.S. educational system. Together with Thomas Bailey and Shanna Jaggars, he co-authored Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success (Harvard University Press, 2015), which has helped to catalyze a national “guided pathways” whole-college reform movement. For the past five years, Jenkins has led research involving over 100 colleges nationally on the implementation of pathways reforms and their effects on student outcomes and college performance. More recently, Jenkins and his team are studying the efforts of colleges that were early adopters of guided pathways to partner with employers, universities, and K-12 schools in creating cross-sectoral education pathways designed to advance economic mobility and workforce development in their communities. Jenkins earned a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s in religion from Princeton University.

Raymond Cross Cross
President
University of Wisonsin System

Brian Barker Barker
Director of Marketing & Communications
Colorado Mountain College

Dr. Michael Lacourse
Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs
Dixie State University

Alan Hall Hall
Regent
Utah System of Higher Education

Brad Cook
President
Snow College

Matt Bowman
Founder, CEO
My Tech High

Cydni Tetro
Founder and CEO

John Fuchko

Randy Shumway
Founder, Chair, and Senior Partner
Cicero Group

Scott Trotter Trotter
Sr. Director of Communication
Utah Valley University

Brad Thatcher
CEO
Thatcher+Co.

Tristan Denley Denley
Tennessee Board of Regents
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Regional Cross-Sector Talent Partnerships
Q&A Panel with National Leaders in Backwards Mapping

Ed Massey Massey
Indian River State College
President
Regional Cross-Sector Talent Partnerships
Q&A Panel with National Leaders in Backwards Mapping

Monday, November 16, 2020
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Jamie Merisotis from the Lumina Foundation
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Presidential Panel Moderated Q&A
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Moving Beyond the Dual Mission to Open Education	President Ray Cross, Opportunities and Challenges Implementing a Dual Mission Model		Opportunities in Crisis. Finding ways to Innovate		Marketing & Branding Dual Mission institutions
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Utah's Dual Mission Model Moderated Policy Leader Panel
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Building Articulation Agreements		Opportunities in Crisis. Finding ways to Innovate		Student Panel Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Regional Cross-Sector Talent Partnerships
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Q&A Panel with National Leaders in Backwards Mapping

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