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October/November 2009
News from BHEF
Mark your calendars for BHEF's 2010 Winter Meeting, hosted by the Raytheon Company, in El Segundo, Calif. The event will begin with a reception on Thursday, February 4, and end with a dinner on Friday, February 5. At this meeting we plan to focus on P-12 and higher-education domestic policy issues and to develop an advocacy agenda around key priorities. Two afternoon sessions will focus on higher-education degree production. BHEF member Roger Ferguson, who serves on the Commission on the Future of Graduate Education, will present the Commission's findings on trends that influence graduate degree production. We also will discuss key insights and findings related to STEM P-12 and higher education gained from developing and vetting the U.S. STEM Education Model, built by Raytheon and gifted to BHEF this past summer. Officials from the U.S. Department of Education, policy experts, and members from the California congressional delegation have been invited to speak at the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there! Special rates and other hotel information, as well as registration information, will be forthcoming shortly.
BHEF, as part of its College Readiness, Access, and Success Initiative (CRI), on October 20 released a case study, Improving Education Through Collaboration. The report, generously supported by a grant from GlaxoSmithKline, focuses on the success that can be achieved when K-12 and higher education work together to improve education outcomes, catalyzed by local business and political leadership. Based in California, the Long Beach Seamless Education Partnership can serve as a national model for improving alignment of the P-12, community college, and four-year education systems. BHEF member Charlie Reed, chancellor of the California State University System, is a long-time proponent of the partnership. Read more about the case study at http://www.bhef.com/news/pressreleases/gsk.asp
BHEF on October 21 hosted the first in a series of STEM Research and Modeling Network (SRMN) Webinars. The event included the first live demonstration of the U.S. STEM Education Model since Raytheon donated it to BHEF in July, and explored the potential use of modeling to examine other critical issues that impact outcomes in STEM disciplines. Many thanks to viaSim President Chris White, who demonstrated a system dynamics modeling approach to examine federal student financial aid policies; and to onsite meeting participants Don Heller, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Penn State, and Bill Goggin and Megan McClean from the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Learn more about the model by visiting the SRMN Web site at http://www.stemnetwork.org/ or join the SRMN list-serve at http://groups.google.com/group/srmn.
As part of its advocacy agenda, BHEF on September 28 sent a letter to Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) urging that the Senate’s companion bill to the Student Access and Financial Responsibility Act (H.R. 3221) include an emphasis on increasing persistence and completion rates among the neediest students and among those in STEM disciplines. More details can be found at http://www.bhef.com/news/pressreleases/senate.asp.
Member News
Congratulations to Bill Swanson, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, and to Raytheon for the unveiling of an interactive, math-based experience called “The Sum of All Thrills” at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Learn more at http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/feature/rtn09_disney/
BHEF Executive Committee member William E. Kirwan, II, chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM), in September was honored by the Carnegie Corporation with its 2009 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award. Brit’s leadership includes serving as co-chair of Maryland Gov. O’Malley’s STEM Task Force. (http://www.gov.state.md.us/documents/090806stemReport.pdf). Congratulations, Brit!
Congratulations to BHEF member Wesley G. Bush, currently president and chief operating officer of Northrop Grumman, who was elected by the company’s board of directors to the position of chief executive officer and president, effective January 1, 2010. Wes also was elected to the Northrop Grumman Board of Directors.
BHEF member and University of Texas (UT) Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa—a nationally renowned transplant surgeon—was featured in the October 5 issue of the Chronicle for Higher Education for his continued part-time surgery practice at the university’s hospital. Prior to becoming chancellor, Francisco headed UT’s San Antonio health science center. http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Texas-Chancellor-Keeps/48680/
BHEF member Eduardo J. Padrón, president of Miami Dade College, has been selected to give the Robert H. Atwell Lecture at the opening plenary session of the American Council on Education's (ACE) 2010 Annual Meeting, scheduled for March 6-9 in Phoenix, Ariz. Eduardo joins a distinguished roster of presidents who have presented the Annual Meeting opening lecture http://www.acenet.edu/AM/.
Welcome to New Members
BHEF is pleased to welcome the following new members to our organization, effective January 2010:
Lewis Hay, III, chairman & CEO of FPL Group, Inc., one of the nation’s largest providers of electricity-related services, and parent company of Florida Power & Light Company and NextEra Energy Resources. For the third year in a row, FPL Group in 2009 was ranked No. 1 among electric and gas utilities in Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Companies listing.
William D. Green, chairman & CEO of Accenture, the global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Bill also heads the Business Roundtable’s Education, Innovation & Workforce Initiative.
BHEF Staff News
BHEF is pleased to welcome two new staff members who are charged with advancing BHEF’s communications efforts. Pamela Lessard is BHEF’s new director of communications and Alexander Sittig is BHEF’s new communications associate. Learn more about these two new staff members at http://www.bhef.com/news/pressreleases/lessard_sittig.asp.
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