Improving College Outcomes: A Modern Approach to Financing Higher Education

Monday October 21, 2013, 1:00 - 4:30 pm

The National Press Club Ballroom, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20045

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On October 21, The Hamilton Project at Brookings will explore the role of education in American society, and release three new proposals detailing ways to improve college outcomes through reforms to student lending and financial aid. Thought leaders in higher education—including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin; Vassar College President Catharine Bond Hill; University of Texas Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa; University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross; Wesleyan University President Michael Roth; and LaGuardia Community College President Gail Mellow—will join the authors of the new proposals to discuss new approaches to strengthening the Pell Grant program to meet the needs of a modern economy, reforming the federal student loan repayment system, and expanding access to information on the "net" vs. "sticker" price of attending college. The new proposals will be available at www.hamiltonproject.org at 10:00 a.m. ET on October 21^st.

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AGENDA

Welcome and Introductions

• Roger C. Altman, Founder and Executive Chairman, Evercore

Roundtable:  Restructuring Our Approach to Financial Aid

• Author: Sandy Baum, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute;  Research Professor, The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development
• Author: Phillip Levine, Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
• Author: Judith Scott-Clayton, Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
• Discussant: Catharine Bond Hill, President, Vassar College 
• Discussant: Gail Mellow, President, LaGuardia Community College
• Facilitator: Melissa Kearney, Director, The Hamilton Project

Roundtable:  Making Borrowing Work for Today's Students Through Income-Contingent Repayment

• Author: Susan Dynarski, Professor of Education, Public Policy and Economics, University of Michigan 
• Discussant: Catharine Bond Hill, President, Vassar College 
• Discussant: Greg Kaplan, Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University 
• Discussant: Grover "Russ" Whitehurst, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, The Brookings Institution 
• Facilitator: Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roundtable: The Role of Higher Education in American Society

• Discussant: Francisco G. Cigarroa, Chancellor, The University of Texas System 
• Discussant: Thomas Ross, President, The University of North Carolina 
• Discussant: Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University 
• Facilitator: Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former U.S. Treasury Secretary

SOURCE The Hamilton Project at Brookings