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Panel
to Explore the Financial Landscape and Liberal Arts Colleges
Jill Tiefenthaler |
Cecilia Conrad |
Members of the Smith community
are invited to a panel discussion, “The Financial Landscape
and Liberal Arts Colleges,” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24,
in Neilson Browsing Room, featuring Jill Tiefenthaler,
president of Colorado College, and Cecilia Conrad, former
vice president for academic affairs and Dean of Pomona College,
who was recently appointed to direct the MacArthur Fellows
Program.
The panel will be moderated
by Smith Trustee James Shulman, president of ARTstor.
Tiefenthaler
is a leading scholar in the field of economics of higher
education, and is guiding Colorado College in a strategic
planning process focused on furthering the college’s impact
and engagement with teaching and learning, capitalizing on
the college’s Rocky Mountain
West location, and extending the college’s reach. Tiefenthaler
has presented her research on the economics of higher education
broadly, and published numerous articles on labor economics,
economics of the family, and development economics.
Conrad,
an economist with a focus on economic inequality, began this
month as director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. In her
previous post as vice president for academic affairs and
Dean of Pomona College, Conrad guided a series of conversations
regarding the value and assessment of a liberal arts college
education, worked with academic departments to improve the
campus climate for diversity, and championed the college’s
summer undergraduate research program. Conrad was recognized
in 2002 as California’s Carnegie Professor of the Year.
The
panel is presented as part of the Board of Trustees’ annual
retreat. |
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