Aspiring to the Presidency - Keynote Speakers
Judith McLaughlinDirector, Higher Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Educational Chair, Harvard Seminar for New Presidents
Dr. Judith Block McLaughlin has written and consulted extensively on leadership transitions, presidential assessment, board-president relationships, senior staff functioning, and board governance. In 2007, she was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to serve as Chair of the Massachusetts Public Education Nominating Council, the body that nominates trustees for the state's colleges and universities. She has served as dean of student affairs at two colleges, as executive director of the National Academy of Education, and as a high school social studies teacher.
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Jerold PanasExecutive Partner, Panas, Linzy & Partners
Dr. Jerold Panas is Executive Partner of one of the nation’s most highly regarded firms in the field of campaign services and financial resource development and has been professionally involved in fundraising and financial resource development for over forty years. He was Senior Vice President of Westminster College in Princeton, New Jersey, Executive for Administration and Finances for the National Council of YMCAs, and has served as a member of the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Consultants, the Association of Management Consultants, and chairman of the board of directors of the National Health Care Board. He is a member of the board of the Council of Independent Colleges.
Trustee, University System of New Hampshire
Former New Hampshire Governor
Walter R. Peterson Jr. has served as a trustee for the University System of New Hampshire since 1996. A Republican, he served as governor of New Hampshire from 1969 to 1973 and speaker of the New Hampshire House in the 1960s. He served as president of Franklin Pierce College from 1975 to 1995.