Our Critical Advisors

Critical Advisors for Meeting #1 & #2, Atlanta, GA

These individuals were selected for their expertise and achievements in the following domains:

Higher education science and engineering curricula pertaining to global issues, from the standpoints of science, business & industry, and national leadership
Higher education policy and practice, including accountability, economics, and resource and reward distribution
Professional development in teaching for current and future faculty
External funding sources for higher education
Higher education associations
Improving university teaching and learning
Media and communications

Susan Albertine Senior Director of Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), Association of American Colleges & Universities	William (Brit) Kirwan Chancellor University System of Maryland
+Bruce Alberts Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics; Editor-in-Chief of Science University of California, San Francisco	Shirley Malcom Head, Education & Human Resources American Association for the Advancement of Science
Ann Austin Professor, Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Program Michigan State University	Sarah Banas Mills Program Associate American Association for the Advancement of Science
David Blockstein Senior Scientist, National Council for Science and the Environment, and Executive Secretary for the NCSE Council of Environmental Deans & Directors	Caryn McTighe Musil Senior Vice President Association of American Colleges and Universities
George Boggs President American Association of Community Colleges	Jeanne Narum Director Project Kaleidoscope
+John Seely Brown Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost Univ. of Southern California	Diana Natalicio President University of Texas at El Paso
Peter Bruns Vice President for Grants and Special Programs Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Stephanie Pfirman Professor Environmental Science Barnard College
Carol Carmichael Faculty Associate, Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology	Judith Ramaley President Winona State University
Jeanne Century Director, Science Education, Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education, University of Chicago	Debra Rowe President, U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
Sharon Dunwoody Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin - Madison	Karl Smith Engineering Professor Purdue University & University of Minnesota
James Elder Director The Campaign for Environmental Literacy	James H. Stith Vice President Physics Resources, Retired American Institute of Physics
Peter Ewell Vice President National Center for Higher Education Management Systems	William Sullivan Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Ted Greenwood Program Officer The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation	Uri Treisman Director The Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin
+Freeman Hrabowski President University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Karan Watson Vice Chancellor Texas A&M University
Richard Jackson Director, Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute University of Michigan	Ralph Wolff President Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Stanley G. Jones Commissioner for Higher Education, Indiana	Robert Zemsky Professor, Higher Education University of Pennsylvania
Adrianna Kezar Professor, Higher Education University of Southern California

+ People who are unable to attend the meeting but have agreed to participate as virtual critical advisors.