Panel Discussion

Presenter Information

Lucie Lapovsky, Lapovsky Consulting
Jay Simmons, Simpson College
Nathan Grawe, Carleton College

Location

Gorecki Center, Room 204

Start Date

10-7-2018 3:00 PM

End Date

10-7-2018 3:45 PM

Description

How do we address the current narrative regarding the broken economic model in higher education? What strategies can make our institutions both more accessible and sustainable? How do we lead toward financial sustainability in the face of the current narrative?

Speaker Bio

Dr. Lucie Lapovsky is a consultant whose practice specializes on issues related to higher education finance. She has served as president of Mercy College, a multi-campus institution of 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students in New York and CFO of Goucher College in Baltimore.

Dr. Lapovsky serves on the boards of the American Public University System, Cedar Crest College KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Tuition Exchange. She is the co-editor of three books and the author of more than 200 chapters and articles. She blogs for Forbes and is a frequent speaker at major higher education conferences. She received her B.A. degree from Goucher College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Dr. Nathan Grawe is a labor economist whose work examines intergenerational determinants of child success. Grawe’s recent interest include the impact of K-12 school quality on intergenerational mobility in the US. His work has been published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Human Resources, and elsewhere. He has worked with Carleton’s Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning and Knowledge initiative to improve students’ abilities to use quantitative evidence in arguments. Grawe earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Olaf College and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago. Grawe has taught in the Economics Department at Carleton College since 1999.

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