- Margaret Spellings
As the first mother of school-aged children to serve as Education Secretary, Spellings has a special appreciation for the hopes and concerns of American families. She has been a leader in reform to make education more innovative and responsive. Prior to her tenure as Education Secretary, Spellings served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, where she helped create the No Child Left Behind Act.
- Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen and Benjamin Barber present two different perspectives on the role of market liberalization and cultural diversity and representation. Tyler Cowen advocates working within a liberal market paradigm, using UNESCO as a 'marketing tool' for cultural representation and has a positive trade-enhancing vision towards culture.
- Allan Bloom
Allan David Bloom (14 September, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana - 7 October, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American philosopher, essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education, as did his mentor Leo Strauss, and became famous for criticism of contemporary American higher education in his bestselling 1987 book, "The Closing of the American Mind". In 2000, years after Bloom's passing, Saul Bellow, …
- Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress.
- Howard Newby
Sir Howard Newby was born in 1947 and grew up in Derby. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton. His other academic posts include professor of sociology at the University of Essex and visiting appointments in Australia and the United States. From 1980-83 he was professor of sociology and rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In August 2001, Sir Howard ended a two-year term as president of Universities UK, …
- Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux, born September 18 1943, is a US cultural critic. He is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. He is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
- Jacques Barzun
Jacques Martin Barzun is a leading American historian of ideas and culture. His reputation, such as it is, is that of a political and social conservative and an eloquent defender of tradition in the practice of higher education and scholarship. But a closer consideration of his works will reveal the unsoundness of any such labels to describe his attitudes or thought. As his friend, Lionel Trilling, said, "It's much more complicated."
- Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen (born August 1, 1941) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to "National Review". Ledeen was a founding member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and he served on the JINSA Board of Advisors. In 2003, the "Washington Post" alleged that he was consulted by Karl Rove, George W. Bush's closest advisor, as his main international affairs adviser.
- Paul Mackney
Paul Mackney was formerly Joint General Secretary of University and College Union, representing around 120,000 academic and academic related staff in further and higher education throughout the United Kingdom. From 1975 to 1992, he taught in Further Education Colleges - from 1986 to 1992 as Head of Birmingham Trade Union Studies Centre at South Birmingham College.
- Alexander Astin
Alexander W. Astin is the Allan M. Cartter Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also Founding Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. He has served as Director of Research for both the American Council on Education and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. He is also the Founding Director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, …
- Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi is currently the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She was the Official Spokesperson for the Palestinian movement during the Madrid peace negotiations (1991-1993), and continues to be active in the efforts towards peace in the region. She was also a member of the Task Force on Higher Education convened by UNESCO and the World Bank.
- Mike Hall
Michael Thomas Hall, known as Mike Hall, (born September 20, 1952) is a British politician, and the Labour Member of Parliament for Weaver Vale. Mike Hall was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and was educated locally at St Mark's Roman Catholic Primary School and St Damian's Catholic Secondary Modern School, both in Ashton-under-Lyne. He went on to study at Padgate Training College, Warrington where he was awarded a Certificate in Education in 1977.
- Emma Willard
Emma C. (Hart) Willard (February 23, 1787 - April 15, 1870) was an American women's rights advocate and the pioneer who founded the first women's school of higher education. Emma Willard was born Emma Hart in Berlin, Connecticut, the sixteenth of her father's seventeen children and the ninth of her mother's ten children, of Samuel Hart and his second wife, Lydia Hinsdale Hart. She attended a district school at Worthington Point.
- Atta Ur Rahman
Prof Dr Atta-ur-Rahman is a leading scientist and scholar in the field of organic chemistry from Pakistan, especially renowned for his research in the various areas relating to natural product chemistry. With over 600 publications in the field of his expertise, he is also credited for reviving the higher education and research practices in Pakistan
- John Kerr
Admiral Sir John Kerr GCB, DL, (born 27 Oct. 1937) is a retired admiral in the Royal Navy. During his naval career he commanded a frigate, a guided missile destroyer and an aircraft carrier — HMS Illustrious. He was in charge of various task groups and was Chief of Defence Intelligence. Kerr's naval career culminated in his appointment as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command and member of the Board of Admiralty.
- Martin C. Jischke
Dr. Martin C. Jischke (JIS-key), born 1941, is a prominent American higher-education administrator and advocate, and was the tenth president of Purdue University. Dr. Jischke has served as chairman and board member of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and as a board member of the American Council on Education, National Merit Scholarship Corporation, and the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities.
- Richard Robinson
Sir Richard Atkinson Robinson, DL, (October 16, 1849–April 28, 1928) was a retail chemist and druggist, who later became a local politician and was the first Conservative to lead the London County Council (1907–1908). He was the eldest son of a Whitby family engaged in the owning and operating of sailing ships. His father died when he was 18, and with four sisters and four younger bothers, there was no money for expensive higher education.
- Daniel J. Evans
Daniel Jackson Evans (born October 16 1925) served three terms as governor of the state of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1983 to 1989. As a young man, Evans was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He also served as a staff member at Camp Parsons, a well known Boy Scout camp in Washington State. Gov.
- David Walters
David Lee Walters was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Walters was born near Canute, Oklahoma. He graduated as valedictorian from Canute High School in 1969. He later graduated from University of Oklahoma in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. In 1977 he earned his master's degree in business administration from Harvard University. He became the project manager for Gov. David Boren.
- Christine King
Christine Elizabeth King is a British historian and university administrator. She is currently Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Staffordshire University. Professor King has published extensively on the Third Reich and is considered an expert on Nazi Germany. She was formerly head of the School of Historical and Critical Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Lancashire Polytechnic. In 1990 she was appointed Assistant Director of Staffordshire Polytechnic, …
- Annalee Saxenian
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College.
- Lewis Elton
Lewis R. B. Elton is a German-born British researcher into education, specialising in higher education. Born Ludwig Ehrenberg in Tübingen to the scholars Victor Ehrenberg and Eva Dorothea Sommer, his (Jewish) family moved to Prague in 1929, and from there to England in February 1939, to escape the threat of Nazism. He changed his name to Lewis Elton during the Second World War, after which he obtained British citizenship.
- Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Freeman A. Hrabowski is president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a position he has held since 1992. He joined the university in 1987, serving first as vice provost and then as executive vice president. Hrabowski is also a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education and universities and school systems nationally.
- Michael Keating
Michael Keating (born 2 February 1950) is a political scientist specialising in nationalism, European politics and regional politics. He is Professor of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, on secondment from the University of Aberdeen, where he holds the post of Professor of Politics. Keating was previously Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
- Janet Finch
Janet Finch is a British sociologist, and currently the Vice-Chancellor of Keele University in the UK, a position that she has held since 1995. Before that she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University. A sociologist by background, she has published on family relationships, social policy and gender. She was one of the founding members of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and in 1999 she was awarded a CBE for services to social science.
- Mordechai Vanunu
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently abducted in Rome by Israeli Mossad agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried in secret and convicted of treason.
- Daphne Patai
Daphne Patai is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Eugene W. Hickok
Dr. Eugene W. Hickok (Born in 1951 Denver and raised mostly in Richmond, Va.) is a leading advocate for public education reform and an expert in constitutional law. President George W. Bush nominated Hickok as his Under Secretary of Education on March 30, 2001 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 10, 2001.
- Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows.
- John D. Cherry
John D. Cherry (b. May 5, 1951) is the current Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Michigan. He was elected in 2002 as the running mate of Democrat Jennifer Granholm. A former staff member to Michigan State Senator Gary Corbin, Cherry served as the state political director for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, until 1982. Prior to his election to the office of Lieutenant Governor, …
- Angie Paccione
Angela Veronica Paccione (born 21 February 1960) is a former Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives. In the 2006 U.S. Election, State Rep. Angie Paccione was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in Colorado's 4th Congressional district, ultimately losing to two-term incumbent Republican Marilyn Musgrave.
- Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb (born in 1952) is an American social and political activist, who has strongly fought for issues including social justice, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and civic involvement in American democracy. Loeb is a frequent public speaker and has written five books and numerous newspaper editorials.
- Robert A. Scott
Robert A. Scott is the current president of Adelphi University located in Garden City, New York. He was appointed by the Adelphi University Board of Trustees as the ninth president and professor of anthropology and sociology in July 2000.
- Charles V. Willie
Charles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus at Harvard University. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
- Willem Buiter
Willem Buiter was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997-May 2000. He joined the London School of Economics as a chair in the European Institute in September of 2005.
- Neil Smelser
Neil Smelser is a University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and former director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His research has focused on what he calls the "macroscopic social structural level" of collective behavior, including economic sociology, social change, and the sociology of education.
- Sidney A. McPhee
Dr. Sidney A. McPhee is the tenth president of Middle Tennessee State University. Prior to his appointment at MTSU in 2001, he was executive vice chancellor at the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) in Nashville. Dr. McPhee also served in various administrative capacities at several major universities including Oklahoma State University, the University of Louisville and the University of Memphis.
- Clinton Bristow Jr.
Clinton Bristow, Jr. (1949-August 19, 2006) was an American lawyer, academic official, and the sixteenth president of Alcorn State University. A native of Alabama, Bristow was installed as Alcorn's president on August 24, 1995. Under his leadership, the number of students in Alcorn's graduate and professional programs grew by a large percentage. An increase in the number of international students attending Alcorn during Bristow's administration gained national attention.
- Olympia Brown
Olympia Brown was a famous Women's suffragist. She was born in Prairie Ronde, Michigan. She attended Mount Holyoke College (then called "Mount Holyoke Female Seminary") from 1854-55 but found it to orthodox for her already progressive viewpoints. She then transferred to, and graduated from, Antioch College in 1860.
- Frances Lucas
Dr. Frances Lucas (born 1957) is the current president of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. The daughter of Aubrey Keith Lucas, a former president of Delta State University and later the University of Southern Mississippi (1, 2), Lucas grew up in Mississippi and graduated from Cleveland High School before obtaining her Master's from Mississippi State University and her PhD in higher education from the University of Alabama (3).