Name: Beyond Retrofitting: Innovation in Higher Education
Start: 2012-11-16T05:00:00-05:00
End: 2012-11-16T07:00:00-05:00
Location: Washington, D.C. Area

November 2012

Past Event

Beyond Retrofitting: Innovation in Higher Education

Past Event

Washington, D.C. Area

November 16, 2012

November 2012

Past Event

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

Speakers:

Jonathan Cain

Thiel Foundation

Kimberly O. Dennis

Searle Freedom Trust

Kenneth J. Polk

American Chemical Society

Andrew S. Rosen

Kaplan, Inc.

Vickie Schray

Bridgepoint Foundation

Burck Smith

StraighterLine

Peter Thiel

Thiel Foundation

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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Featured Speakers:

Kim Jina

Senator Bill Hagerty

Kurt Campbell

Elaine L. Chao

Ambassador Joseph Y. Yun

Wendy Cutler

Michael Coulter

Brent Sadler

Troy Stangarone

Arielle Roth

Jane Nakano

Nick Snyder

Sek Hwan Hong

Jiyoon Lee

Kayla T. Orta

Scott Snyder

Cordell Hull

Moderators:

Patrick M. Cronin

Brigham A. McCown

Bryan Clark

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In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

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Join Hudson Institute for the tenth United States–Republic of Korea Joint Public-Private Economic Forum on November 17.

Featured Speakers:

Kim Jina

Senator Bill Hagerty

Kurt Campbell

Elaine L. Chao

Ambassador Joseph Y. Yun

Wendy Cutler

Michael Coulter

Brent Sadler

Troy Stangarone

Arielle Roth

Jane Nakano

Nick Snyder

Sek Hwan Hong

Jiyoon Lee

Kayla T. Orta

Scott Snyder

Cordell Hull

Moderators:

Patrick M. Cronin

Brigham A. McCown

Bryan Clark

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Featured Speakers:

David Feith

Patrick M. Cronin

Ely Ratner

Trevor Wagener

Matt Mowers

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Featured Speakers:

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Nadia Schadlow

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In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

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Nadia Schadlow

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Featured Speakers:

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