ITHAKA: The Next Wave 2016 | #ithakatnw16

Once again, ITHAKA is convening scholarly communications industry and senior leaders from our partner libraries, publishers, and learned societies for The Next Wave Conference. This invitation-only event offers a focused, collegial space to come together and explore the latest trends, often in technology and the commercial web, and to look to the future of higher education. Through this event, our partner organizations understand the landscape, develop strategies, and find ways to collaborate and to thrive.

In 2016, our theme will be:

The Bigger Picture: How Macro Changes in Higher Education Should Shape Your Strategy

Often scholarly communications looks inward to our own ecosystem, but libraries, publishers, and societies operate in a broader context. At ITHAKA, we see on the horizon emerging changes in American Higher Education that will have new and lasting implications for us and our community of partners. Shifts in funding, demographics, technology, and partnership opportunities will alter the strategies and priorities of our universities and colleges in ways that will require that we all shift along with it.

Invited guests are asked to join us for this one-day meeting on November 30, 2016 in New York City where we will explore the macro trends in American Higher Education and discuss how it should influence what we do and how we do it.

Agenda

Our day of conversation and presentations will be led by master of ceremonies, Jeff Selingo. Jeff is a leading authority on higher education world-wide, best-selling author, and currently special advisor at Arizona State University and visiting scholar at Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities.

8:00-9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introduction

Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA, welcomes us and introduces our master of ceremonies, Jeff Selingo.

9:15-10:15 Keynote and “Fireside Chat”

Mitchell Stevens, Director, Center for Advanced Research through Online Learning
Stanford University, charts what’s happening in US higher education and why. He writes “Headlines and blog posts offer a cacophony of mostly bad news about US higher education: rising costs, reduced public subsidy, little measurable learning, sleazy market players, and tepid completion rates. Yet, a decade of research suggests a larger and ultimately optimistic vision of higher education going forward. Fundamental changes in how college is paid for and measured mark the end of a twentieth-century golden era. Still the next era — if we build it right — could make higher education more accessible, flexible, cosmopolitan, and humane than ever before.”

Mitchell will be joined at the conclusion of his remarks for a discussion with Jeff Selingo, Kevin Guthrie and Catharine “Cappy” Bond Hill, Managing Director, Ithaka S+R.

10:15-10:45 Networking Break

10:45-12:30 Trends that Matter

Experts provide us with real-world data and practical experience on trends in higher education we need to track and incorporate into our future strategies. Trends include: student demographics and digital expectations; open content; educational technology, and data and analytics.

• Marie Cini, Provost and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs, University of Maryland, University College

• Charles Isbell, Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Georgia Tech on Education Technology

• Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition of Networked Information on Data and Analytics

• Lee Rainie, Director, Internet, Science, and Technology, Pew Research Center

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Lessons We Are Learning: Collaboration Insights

Working together across institutions and in public-private partnerships gives us opportunities to do more than we can alone. Deanna Marcum, Senior Advisor, Ithaka S+R, moderates a panel of leaders taking part in collaborations at different stages of development and with diverse purposes so they might share what they are learning and their advice for others.

• Gretchen McKay, Professor and Department Chair, Art & Art History, McDaniel College

• Ann Thornton, Vice Provost and University Librarian, Columbia University

• John Price Wilkin, University Librarian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2:30-3:30 Re-Shaping the Future: New Strategies and Achieving Alignment

Leaders of presses and libraries in all kinds of organizational settings are adjusting to the changes in the broader higher education landscape. Roger Schonfeld, Director, Libraries and Scholarly Communication Program, Ithaka S+R, will talk with directors about their plans for their organizations, what is positive and difficult in their work, and how they operate and align their efforts to the aims and goals of their colleges and universities.

• Amy Brand, Director, MIT Press

• Jon Cawthorne, Dean of Libraries, University of West Virginia

• Mark McBride, Director, Library Services, Monroe Community College

3:30-4:00 Networking Break

4:00-5:00 Who to Watch

We are constantly on the look-out for emerging companies or initiatives that we can learn from because they embrace the landscape and opportunities today and upcoming. This year, we focus on some exciting products taking advantage of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

• Colleen Hunter, Channel Partner Manager, Yewno

• Sam Molyneux, CEO, Meta

• John Rinderle, Chief Technology Officer, Acrobatiq

5:00-5:15 Closing Remarks

Jeff Selingo and Kevin Guthrie

5:15-7:00 Reception

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