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NATIONAL LEADERS JOIN
FORCES TO SHAPE HIGHER EDUCATION
San Jose, Calif.--Governor James B. Hunt Jr., Governor of North Carolina, announced
today that a group of nationally known leaders are joining forces to help shape higher
education policy in the United States.
The leaders include two governors, four CEOs of major corporations, several innovators
in education, and a range of other influential Americans. The group, which will serve
as the founding Board of Directors
for The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, will be chaired
by Gov. Hunt.
"The future of our colleges and universities is a central concern of each
of these business, government, civic, and education leaders," Gov. Hunt said
in naming of the new board. "I am gratified that such a distinguished group
has come together to stimulate a national conversation about how higher education
can continue to most effectively meet the needs of this nation. Americans who are
motivated and able to benefit deserve opportunities for education and training beyond
high school that they and their families can afford. We’re joining together to help
America deliver on that promise."
The board will oversee the work of the National Center, a newly formed, independent,
foundation-supported organization whose charge is to promote constructive state and
federal policy leading to increased opportunities for those seeking education and
training beyond high school.
"Higher education is facing serious challenges concerning cost, quality and
opportunity," Gov. Hunt said. "We want to ensure that the doors to our
colleges and universities are open wide for the next generation of Americans."
Jim Edgar, Governor of Illinois, has joined Gov. Hunt in this nationwide effort.
Those from the business community include Roger A. Enrico, CEO of PepsiCo, Inc. in
New York; Crandall Bowles, Chairman, President and CEO of Springs Industries, Inc.
in South Carolina; Garrey Carruthers, President and CEO of Cimarron Health Plan in
New Mexico, and former Governor of New Mexico; and Thomas J. Tierney, CEO of Bain
& Company in Massachusetts.
Other national leaders on the board are Clark Kerr, President Emeritus of the
University of California; Ramon C. Cortines, Executive Director of the Pew Network
for Standards-Based School Reform at Stanford University in California; Dolores E.
Cross, GE Fund Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Diversity at CUNY in New
York; Thomas Ehrlich, Distinguished University Scholar at California State University;
Arturo Madrid, Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University
in Texas; Robert H. McCabe, Senior Fellow at the League for Innovation in the Community
College in Florida; Paul F. Miller, Jr., Founding Partner of Miller, Anderson &
Sherrerd in Pennsylvania; The Honorable Howard "Pete" Rawlings of the Maryland
House of Delegates; John Brooks Slaughter, President of Occidental College in California;
Virginia B. Smith, President Emerita of Vassar College; Uri Treisman, Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin; and Harold M. Williams, President
Emeritus of The J. Paul Getty Trust in California. The President of the National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Patrick M. Callan, will also serve
as a member of the Board.
Gov. Hunt has been a national leader of K–12 improvement efforts since the early
1980s. From 1982 to 1983, he chaired the Education Commission of the States, where
he established the National Commission on Education and the Economy, an initiative
to link education with workforce training and economic development. He was chair
of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards from it inception in 1987
to 1997. From 1994 to 1996 he chaired the National Commission on Teaching and America’s
Future, and from 1997 to 1998 he chaired the National Education Goals Panel.
Gov. Hunt will host the initial meeting of the Board in Raleigh, North Carolina,
later this month.
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