Key speakers included David W. Breneman, an authority on the finance and economics of higher education, who delivered the keynote address (view story), and Kent John Chabotar, president and professor of political science at Guilford College (NC), whose address on “Strategic Budgeting” emphasized the role of academic officers in budget decisions and the involvement of faculty members in the budget process (view story). In addition, Chatham College (PA) President Esther L. Barazzone and Susan Resneck Pierce, president emerita of the University of Puget Sound (WA), closed the conference with a plenary session on how they led institutional “turnarounds” based primarily on strengthening academic quality (view story).

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