Top Row (from left to right): Kyle Hutchison, Dr. Frankie Santos Laanan, Dr. Hazel Scott, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb, Dr. Andrew Wall, Dr. Ric Underhile, Dr. Michael Stevenson, Dr. Richard Keeling, Trey Avery, Eric Engstrom, Jessalyn Davis, Gordon Winsor; Bottom Row (from left to right): Lynn Levy, Dr. Daniel Silverman, Dr. Joyce Fetro, Augustine Bartning, Dr. Judy Drolet, Dr. Ryan Smith.

Keeling & Associates hosted our first Symposium on Higher Education at the Yale Club of New York City on August 9 & 10, 2007. Our purpose was to create a collegial forum for rigorous, open discussion on contemporary issues in higher education that would give scholars, experienced practitioners, and senior administrators the opportunity to explore ideas, debate important questions of policy, and share observations and analysis about emerging issues and trends. Participants from colleges and universities of all types in the US and Canada worked, thought, dined, and laughed together, reviewing papers submitted in advance in response to the implications of an article (now in press with Liberal Education) written by Drs. Richard Keeling, Ric Underhile, and Andrew Wall on the dynamics of horizontal and vertical structures of organization in higher education. Papers addressed questions of accountability, the complex relationships of institutions with parents, innovation and planning in community colleges, the use of theory in higher education practice, cross-campus collaboration on matters of student mental health and safety, and linking institutional mission and vision with strategy and operations. An edited manuscript from the symposium papers is being published in a series produced by Keeling & Associates. Please register on our website to be notified when the publication is ready for distribution.