We extend our most sincere thanks to everyone who attended NEBHE's annual College Ready New England Conference, Getting to the Core: New Standards for Readiness and Success, held Monday, December 7, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Worcester, Massachusetts. You can download the conference agenda, sponsor information, and photos and biographies of all the panel speakers as well as the PowerPoint presentations they gave during the conference. (The PowerPoint files have been converted to PDF format. To view PDF files, you may require Adobe Reader.

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Links to download PowerPoint presentations (in PDF format) featured at the conference are listed below where they occur in the agenda.

Getting to the Core: New Standards for Readiness and Success

December 7, 2009
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Worcester, Massachusetts

Welcome and Introduction

• Michael K. Thomas, President & CEO, New England Board of Higher Education

Opening Remarks

• Donald Carcieri, Governor of Rhode Island.
  
  

• Dane Linn, Director, Education Division, National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
• Gene Wilhoit, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
• Jacqueline E. King, Assistant Vice President, Center for Policy Analysis, Division of Programs and Research, American Council on Education

• Facilitator: Michael K. Thomas, President and CEO, New England Board of Higher Education
• Richard Freeland, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education
• Selma Botman, President, University of Southern Maine
• Rev. Mark T. Cregan, President, Stonehill College
• Julia McNamara, President, Albertus Magnus College
• Helen Giles-Gee, President, Keene State College
• Dorsey L. Kendrick, President, Gateway Community College


Session 3: Common Core Standards, K-12


• Facilitator: J. Duke Albanese, Sr. Policy Advisor, Great Schools Partnership
• Mark McQuillan, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Education
• Susan Gendron, Commissioner, Maine Department of Education
• Mitchell Chester, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
• Virginia Barry, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Education
• Mary Ann Snider, Director of Assessment and Accountability, Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
• Rae Knopf, Deputy Commissioner, Vermont Department of Education


Keynote Address


• Matthew M. Chingos, Co-Author, Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities.
  

  Click to view and save Matthew Chingos' PowerPoint presentation, Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities.


Session 4: Underprepared Students in Higher Education: Remediation, Developmental Education


• Facilitator: Pamela Boisvert, Vice President for Higher Education Access Services, Colleges of Worcester Consortium
• Michael L. Collins, Program Director, Jobs for the Future

Click to view and save Michael Collins' PowerPoint presentation, Developmental Education Innovation: Achieving the Dream and The Developmental Education Initiative.

• Thomas Bailey, Executive Director, Community College Research Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University

Click to view and save Thomas Bailey's PowerPoint presentation, Remedial Education: Assessment and Student Success.

• Joan Becker, Vice Provost for Academic Services, University of Massachusetts Boston