2005 Foundation Conversation

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2005 Conversation Between Foundation Officers
and College and University Presidents

Monday, September 19, 2005
8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
TIAA-CREF Headquarters
730 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10017

Click here for the 2005 Foundation Conversation participants list. (This is a PDF file. In order to view properly, the minimum software requirement is version 4.0. Adobe Acrobat is available for free from the Adobe Web site.)

See below for information and registration materials that were available prior to the event.

• Theme
• Agenda
• Program
• Speakers
• Hotel Information
• Registration
• Questions

Theme

Who Will Achieve Social Change? What Do Foundations Expect From Colleges?

This year's 17th annual CIC Conversation Between Foundation Officers and College and University Presidents will focus on the theme "Who Will Achieve Social Change? What Do Foundations Expect From Colleges?" This topic takes up in greater depth an aspect of last year's discussion, zeroing in on the effectiveness and potential of independent colleges and universities as agents of social change. The topics to be addressed at the Conversation include:

1. Can independent higher education play a distinctive role in creating opportunities and progress in America and the world?
2. Why foundations support students (and sometimes don't).
3. Why foundations support academic programs (and sometimes don't).

The keynote speaker will be Martha D. Lamkin, president of the Lumina Foundation for Education. Other foundation executives who have agreed to speak this year include Anita M. Pampusch, president, Bush Foundation; Matthew J. Quinn, executive director, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation; Eugene M. Tobin, program officer, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Thomas Hellie, president and executive director, James S. Kemper Foundation; and Donna Heiland, vice president for programs, Teagle Foundation.

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Agenda

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Program

The format of the Conversation will follow the pattern used in 2004, which was very popular. The day will be divided into three plenary sessions, each with a small number of presentations and with ample time for discussion. In addition, we anticipate long coffee breaks and other informal junctures for individual brief conversations to take place between foundation officers and college presidents.

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Speakers

Several influential leaders of the foundation world have agreed to participate:

Martha D. Lamkin is president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation for Education, which she has led since its inception in 1997. She played an instrumental role in developing the concept of the foundation while serving as executive vice president of corporate advancement at USA Group, Inc., from 1991. She was previously president of the Cummins Engine Company Foundation; manager for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Indiana office; and an attorney with the firm of Lowe, Gray, Steele and Hoffman, Indianapolis. Lamkin is a graduate of California Baptist University. She holds an M.A. in English and American literature from Vanderbilt University, and a law degree from Indiana University.

Anita M. Pampusch is president of the Bush Foundation. Before becoming the foundation's second president in 1997, she served at the College of St. Catherine (MN) as president (1984-97), academic dean and vice president (1979-84), associate dean (1977-79), and professor of philosophy (1970-76). She was an American Council on Education fellow during 1976-77. Pampusch earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. As a graduate student she held a National Science Foundation Trainee fellowship. Earlier in her career she was a teacher of mathematics and science at St. Joseph's Academy. She currently serves as a member of the CIC Board of Directors.

Matthew J. Quinn has served as founding executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation since 2000. He was president of Carroll College (MT) from 1989 to 2000. His earlier leadership roles in higher education included vice president for academic affairs at Saint Joseph's University (PA); dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences at Iona College (NY), and director of the State Colleges Office in the New Jersey Department of Higher Education. He holds a B.A. from Fordham University; a Ph.L. from Woodstock College; an M.A. in English from Fordham; a Ph.D. in higher education management from Boston College; and a J.D. from the Fordham School of Law. He currently serves as a member of the CIC Board of Directors.

Thomas Hellie has been president and executive director of the James S. Kemper Foundation since 1999. He previously served for a decade as vice president of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM). Prior to his ACM role, he was associate professor of theatre and English at Hiram College (OH). Hellie earned a B.A. at Luther College and a Ph.D. in theatre history at the University of Missouri at Columbia. In 1996, Polacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, awarded him the Pametni Medal for service to Czech higher education.

Donna Heiland became vice president for programs at the Teagle Foundation in 2004. Her areas of responsibility include strategic planning, program development, grant making, and monitoring of current grants. She was previously director of fellowship programs at the American Council of Learned Societies and before that associate professor of English at Vassar College. She earned a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University. She is the author of Gothic and Gender: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2004).

Eugene M. Tobin is program officer for liberal arts colleges at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Previously he served at Hamilton College (NY) as president (1993-2003), dean of the faculty (1988-1993), and professor of history (1986-1988). He has taught American history at New Jersey City University, Kutztown University (PA), Miami University (OH), and Indiana University. He is co-author with William G. Bowen and Martin A. Kurzweil of Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, published in April 2005, and has authored several books on topics in American history. Tobin earned a B.A. from Rutgers University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the history of American civilization from Brandeis University.

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Hotel Information

For those who will need hotel accommodations, we have made arrangements for a discounted rate at:

Affinia Manhattan (previously known as the Southgate Tower)
371 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001

The Affinia Manhattan is an all-suites property, located at 371 Seventh Avenue, just steps away from Penn Station, and it is offering a special rate of $229 per night, single or double accommodations. To make reservations, call (866) 233-4642 or e-mail the hotel at reservations@affinia.com. All reservations must be made by August 28, 2005. Please be sure to request the Council of Independent Colleges rate when you make your reservation. For your information, the United Nations General Assembly is in session at the same time we are meeting, so hotel space on the east side of Manhattan was not available for less than $300 per night.

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Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact Fred Ohles, CIC’s vice president for advancement at (202) 466-7230 or fohles@cic.nche.edu.

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