Reimagining Minnesota State: Forum Session 4 - March 6, 2019

Session 4: The Student: Emerging populations and changing needs and expectations
The fourth session will dive into the changing nature of students and the demographic, generational, social and economic forces that will impact their needs and enrollment patterns in the future. Session 4: The Student will create opportunities to discuss how differing student populations bring different needs and learning and service expectations to higher education settings and how institutions are responding to serve those needs in innovative and impactful ways.

How will Minnesota State reimagine how it responds to the diverse student populations that will look to its colleges and universities to further their professional and personal aspirations? How will we position ourselves to both drive new enrollments, continuously improve student outcomes, and individualize and personalize the learning and support experience of students?

Wednesday, March 6, 2019
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
12:00-1:00 p.m. - optional group discussion following panel presentations

Pine Techncial and Community College
Room: Auditorium
900 4th St SE
Pine City, MN 55063
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Forum Speakers

Timothy Renick, Senior Vice President for Student Success and Professor at Georgia State University and Recipient of the 2018 McGraw Prize in Higher Education

Dr. Renick is the Senior Vice Presidnet for Student Success at Georgia State. He also has served as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Honors Program at GSU. Since 2008, he has directed the student success and enrollment efforts of the university, overseeing among the fastest improving graduation rates in the nation and the elimination of all achievement gaps based on students’ race, ethnicity or income level. Dr. Renick has testified on strategies for helping university students succeed before the United States Senate and has twice been invited to speak at the White House. His work has been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, and CNN and cited by President Obama. He was named one of 2016’s Most Innovative People in Higher Education by Washington Monthly, was the recipient of the 2015-16 Award for National Leadership in Student Success Innovation, and was awarded the 2018 McGraw Prize in Higher Education. He currently is principal investigator for a $9 million U.S. Department of Education grant to study the impact of predictive-analytics-based advisement on ten-thousand low-income and first-generation students nationally. A summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Renick holds his M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University.

Kristen Hodge-Clark, Vice President for Best Practice and Innovation, Association of Governing Boards

Dr. Kristen N. Hodge-Clark is the Vice President for Best Practice and Innovation at the Association of Governing Boards (AGB). In this role, Hodge-Clark provides AGB members with current and anticipated best practices in higher education governance. She also directs AGB’s work to provide comprehensive solutions to member institutions for the common challenges they face. Prior to taking on that role, Dr. Hodge-Clark was the director of research for AGB. Dr. Hodge-Clark has authored several publications including her most recent report, Taking the Pulse of Campus Climate: Key Findings of the AGB Survey on Diversity and Inclusion. She also leads several of AGB’s grant-funded initiatives, including one on HBCU governance and leadership funded by the Kresge Foundation. In addition to her role with AGB, she currently serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the School of Continuing Studies. Dr. Hodge-Clark earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, and her B.A. in English, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, from Spelman College.

Richard A. DeMillo, Executive Director, Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Tech

Dr. DeMillo is the Executive Director of Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Tech, where he also is the Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair of Computer Science and Professor of Management. The Center is Georgia Tech’s living laboratory for fundamental change in higher education. He is responsible for educational innovation at Georgia Tech. Under his leadership, Georgia Tech has developed a pipeline of 50 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that together enroll a million learners. Georgia Tech’s innovation projects include new research in blended learning and a groundbreaking MOOC-based Master’s degree in computer science that offers a Georgia Tech degree for under $7,000. He was named Lumina Foundation Fellow in recognition of his work in higher education. He was Hewlett-Packard’s first Chief Technology Officer, where he had worldwide responsibility for technology. During his twenty-year academic career, he has held academic positions at Purdue University, The University of Wisconsin and the University of Padua (Italy). His book, “Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities,” was published by MIT Press in 2011. A sequel entitled “Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators will make College Accessible and Affordable” was published by MIT Press in 2015.