Experience

Business-Higher Education Forum

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO Emeritus

  • Jun 2023 - Present

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Jan 2005 - Present

  Washington DC BHEF is the nation's oldest organization of senior business and academic leaders dedicated to addressing the nation's most pressing education and workforce challenges through innovative solutions and concerted action.



Dean's Leadership Council, Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Member

  • Oct 2011 - Present

  Cambridge, MA The Dean's Leadership Council provides strategic advice and support to the Dean and senior administrators at the Graduate School of Education .



National Academy of Sciences

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Study Committee on Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollment

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Washington DC The study committee is charged with examining the recent growth in undergraduate enrollment in computer science courses and programs, considering drivers and future trends, identifying strategies for responding to to increased enrollment and examining the impact on diversity.

• Study Committee Member

  • Mar 2015 - Dec 2015

  Washington DC Serves as member of the National Research Council study committee on improving higher education's responsiveness to STEM workforce needs focused on scalable practices and policies that improve STEM workforce outcomes. The committee conducted regional workshops and drafted a report on study findings.



President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President

• Higher Education Working Group Member

  • Jan 2011 - Aug 2011

  The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) charged the working group with drafting a report that examined the challenges of the first two years of STEM undergraduate education and suggest recommendations that PCAST could make to President Obama to use federal agencies to address these challenges. PCAST sent the report, Engage to Excel, to President Obama in early 2012.



Harvard Graduate School of Education

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Alumni Council

  • 2003 - 2007

  Cambridge, MA The Alumni Council represents the alumni to the School, advises the Dean and senior administrators on alumni issues and, among other roles, elects the Alumnus/ae of the Year recipient for distingished service to the profession. Served as Chairperson, 2006-7.



Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance

• Staff Director

  • Mar 1988 - Jan 2005

  A federal committee that advises Congress and the Secretary of Education on higher education and student fiancial aid policy to improve access and success



American University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor of Government (adjunct)

  • Aug 1999 - May 2001

  Taught advanced (450-level) seminars on the politics of P-12 and higher education to upper-division undergraduates