Lawmakers and higher education leaders from seventeen states came together in Indianapolis to learn how to identify and tell the stories about productivity work in higher education and share how states and institutions can replicate the promising aspects of productivity work.

Higher education productivity teams from Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia attended the conference.

Wednesday August 24

Opening remarks by Jamie Merisotis, Lumina Foundation, and Brit Kirwan, University System of Maryland

Related materials:

• Four Steps to Finishing First: An Agenda for Increasing College Productivity to Create a Better-Educated Society
• Changing the Conversation About Productivity: Strategies for Engaging Faculty and Institutional Leaders
• “Effectiveness and Efficiency” The University System of Maryland’s campaign to control costs and increase student aid

Productivity as a Movement: Now More than Ever, David Leonhardt, The New York Times

Q&A session following Andy Goodman’s Telling Your Story presentation.

Thursday August 25

What Does Quality Look Like in Productive Higher Education Systems?

Panel discussion with:

• Dewayne Matthews, Lumina Foundation
• Holiday Hart McKiernan, Lumina Foundation
• Daniel McInerney, Utah State University
• Carol Geary Schneider, Association of American Colleges & Universities
• Paula Myrick Short, Tennessee Board of Regents

Friday, August 26

Institutional Pioneers: Tackling the Productivity Challenge on Campus

Panel discussion with:

• Will Friedman, Public Agenda
• William C. Powers Jr, University of Texas at Austin
• Rufus Glasper, Maricopa Community College District

Related reading:

• Changing the Conversation about Productivity
• Cold Rolled Steel and Knowledge: What Can Higher Education Learn About Productivity?