16
November 2012
Past Event
Beyond Retrofitting: Innovation in Higher Education

Beyond Retrofitting: Innovation in Higher Education

Past Event
Washington, D.C. Area
November 16, 2012
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16
November 2012
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
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Frederick M. Hess
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Andrew P. Kelly
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Christopher DeMuth

Former Distinguished Fellow

Jonathan Cain

Thiel Foundation

Kimberly O. Dennis

Searle Freedom Trust

Tim Kane

Economist and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Kenneth J. Polk

American Chemical Society

Andrew S. Rosen

Kaplan, Inc.

Vickie Schray

Bridgepoint Foundation

Burck Smith

StraighterLine

David Tell

Senior Fellow

Peter Thiel

Thiel Foundation

Tevi Troy

Former Senior Fellow

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John P. Walters

President and CEO

Ben Wildavsky

Kauffman Foundation

On September 12, 2013, Hudson Institute’s Initiative on Future Innovation convened a distinguished panel of experts and practitioners from business, philanthropy, and the academic world for an off-the-record workshop on a working draft of Beyond Retrofitting: Innovation in Higher Education, by Andrew P. Kelly and Frederick M. Hess. Mssrs. Kelly and Hess, both resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute, are among the nation's foremost authorities on K-12 and post-secondary education policy. Beyond Retrofitting — since published in final form as the first in a series of major research papers by Hudson’s Innovation Initiative, and available for download under the “Further Reading” header elsewhere on this page — is a path-breaking proposal for structural and technological re-engineering of American higher education.

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