FoT@HigherEd Panel: How Does Higher Ed Become an Engine of Upward Mobility Again?

From our most selective to our most inclusive institutions, higher education is grappling with how to best support first generation and low income students to ensure their success in college and in the workforce.  This panel will discuss a broad set of strategies developed to ensure ALL people have access to the future.

Moderator: Seppy Basili, COO, The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Panelist: Khristina Gonzalez, Director of Programs of Access and Inclusion, Princeton University; Nitzan Pelman, CEO at ReUp Education; Nancy Sanchez, Executive Director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation; Lori Sparger, COO, College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University; Eric Waldo, Executive Director, Michelle Obama's Reach Higher Initiative & EVP for Education, Civic Nation