2003 Foundation Conversation Between Foundation Officers and College and University Presidents

8:15 a.m.
(East Room)

Continental breakfast available.

9:00 - 9:15 a.m. (Wharton Auditorium)

Welcoming Remarks: Doreen E. Boyce, President, The Buhl Foundation; Robert M. Frehse, Jr., Executive Director, The William Randolph Hearst Foundations; Herb M. Allison, Jr., President and CEO, TIAA-CREF.

9:15 - 10:00 a.m.
(Wharton Auditorium)

Opening Plenary Session: Introductions – Richard Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges. Panel on “Framing the Larger Questions”– Richard Guarasci, President, Wagner College; Gara LaMarche, Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs, The Open Society Institute; and Eugene M. Lang, Chairman, E.M. Lang Foundation and Founder, Project Pericles.

10:15 -
11:15 a.m.

First group of topic sessions (in four break-out rooms).

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Second group of topic sessions (in the same break-out rooms).

Meeting Room I – Matthew Quinn, Executive Director, The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation; and Thomas Hellie, Executive Director, The James S. Kemper Foundation.

Meeting Room 2 – Anita M. Pampusch, President, The Bush Foundation; and Wayne Meisel, Executive Director, The Bonner Foundation.

Meeting Room 3 – Geri Mannion, Chair, Strengthening U.S. Democracy Program and the Special Opportunities Fund, Carnegie Corporation of New York; and Gara LaMarche, Vice President and Director, The Open Society Institute.

Meeting Room 4 (Wharton Auditorium) – Susan Kassouf, Special Projects Director, The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation; and Richard P. Traina, Trustee and Vice-Chair, The George I. Alden Trust.

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
(Atrium)

Lunch (Wharton Auditorium). Keynote Speaker: Leslie Lenkowsky, Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for National and Community Service – “Higher Education and the Making of Citizens.”

2:00 p.m.

Meeting adjourns with closing remarks: Doreen E. Boyce; Robert M. Frehse, Jr.