Wednesday, April 19, 2023  

3:30PM - 5:00PM

Imagine how new models and brave institutions can succeed for their students in radically changing times. Join Founder and Chancellor of Minerva University Ben Nelson, a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education (who has been reforming the undergraduate experience since he was one himself at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School), and WSCUC President Jamienne Studley (also a lifelong higher ed change agent)... More Details

Thursday, April 20, 2023

9:00AM - 10:15AM

Once a decade, the WASC Senior College and University Commission revises its Standards of Accreditation. While that process is crucial to the continuous development of the agency and its member institutions, it is only a first step: how the Standards are interpreted and implemented are equally important.

Complementing this presentation, during each concurrent block of the conference there will be a session for institutions to offer comment, ask questions...More Details

Thursday, April 20, 2023

3:45PM - 4:45PM

Nationally recognized expert and engaging speaker Dr. Tia Brown McNair, AAC&U Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and lead author of From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education, will explore how accreditation, equity and inclusion reinforce each other to help institutions create an environment of inclusive excellence and student success. She and Dr. Susan Layden...More Details