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BRENT STAPLES– Editorial Board Member
Keynote Speaker, Wednesday, November 18, 9 a.m.
Brent Staples writes about politics and culture for the New York Times editorial board. He was appointed to the board in 1990, after serving three years as an assistant metropolitan editor and two years as an editor of The New York Times Book Review. He came to The Times in 1985 from The Chicago Sun-Times, where he was a science reporter. In Chicago, he contributed regularly to the Chicago Reader and wrote extensively about jazz for a variety of publications, including Downbeat Magazine.
Since arriving at The Times, Mr. Staples has been a frequent contributor to the Times magazine and the Book Review. His essays are widely syndicated and have been collected in scores of college readers, making him required reading in college English and composition classes throughout the United States and abroad. He is the author of “Parallel Time,” a memoir published by Pantheon in January 1994, which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, previously won by the novelists Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin and the sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. “Parallel Time” was also a subject of a 1997 ABC television documentary entitled: “The Dignity of Children.”
In the spring of 2006, Mr. Staples was awarded a Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his book-in-progress, “Neither White Nor Black: The Secret History of Mixed-Race America.” The Fletcher Fellowship, a grant given to organizations and individuals, is administered by the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African-American Research at Harvard and supports work that advances the cause of racial equality. Mr. Staples has lectured widely at colleges, universities and other venues across the country. He served as a visiting fellow at Yale University in 2009, at the University of Chicago in 2004 and at the Hoover Institution in 2003. In 2001, he was chosen by Harvard University to give the annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures, a three-day series that recognizes “persons of outstanding achievement who have contributed to our better understanding of African-American life, history and culture.”
Born on Sept. 13, 1951, in Chester, Pa., Mr. Staples received a B.A. degree in behavioral science from Widener University, Chester, Pa., in 1973. He received a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Chicago in 1976 and earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago in 1982. Mr. Staples held two doctoral fellowships, one from the Danforth Foundation and another from the Ford Foundation. He taught briefly at the university level before entering journalism.
Marjorie Smelstor, Ph.D.
Presenting on November 18 at 12:30 p.m.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Marjorie Smelstor has had careers in the foundation world, healthcare, higher education, and consulting. She is currently Executive Director of the TMC Corporate Academy, an initiative that provides education for all employees, families, and friends of Truman Medical Centers. Dr. Smelstor founded the Academy in 2001 and its innovative Center for the Healing Arts, a systematic and deliberate use of the arts to provide care for the caregivers, patients, friends, and families of TMC.
She is a former Vice President of Kauffman Campuses and Higher Education Programs at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In that capacity, she was responsible for a $50 million program that supported the infusion of entrepreneurship education throughout the curricula of 22 Kauffman Campuses as well as developing partnerships with other colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Before joining The Kauffman Foundation in 2007, Dr. Smelstor was Chief Acceleration Officer at Truman Medical Centers (TMC) in Kansas City, Missouri. Among her responsibilities at TMC was leadership for the TMC Corporate Academy, creation of an early childhood development center, coordination of research and the life sciences, development of an integrative medicine program, and liaison with the Charitable Foundation.
Before her work in healthcare, Dr. Smelstor was a university administrator for 25 years, holding the positions of Assistant Vice President, Dean, Provost, and Interim Chancellor at institutions in Texas, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Missouri. She has published more than a hundred articles and a book, and has lectured nationally and internationally in the United States, Croatia, Japan, Scandinavia, France, Great Britain, and Turkey. In 1981 she was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Croatia.
She has been a consultant for universities, healthcare organizations, and various industries and has a consulting firm that focuses on strategic planning, executive development, and organizational change.
Dr. Smelstor has a Ph.D. and M.A. in American Literature and Mass Communications and Public Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A., magna cum laude, from the College of Mt. St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dr. Shirley Pippins
Presenting on November 19th at 8:30 a.m.
As senior vice president for programs and services for the American Council on Education (ACE), Shirley Robinson Pippins leads a division that includes the Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity; Office of Women in Higher Education; The Spectrum Initiative; Center for Lifelong Learning; Corporate Programs; Military Programs; and the GED® Testing Service.
Pippins came to ACE in 2009 from Suffolk County Community College in New York where she served as president of the two-year, multi-campus institution since 2003—the first woman and the first African American to lead the institution in its history. She is a previous member of the executive committee of the board of the American Association of Community Colleges and serves on ACE’s Commission on Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity. Pippins is a past chair of ACE’s Commission on Women in Higher Education.
Prior to Suffolk County Community College, Pippins served for eight years as president of Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, VA. Pippins has also held senior leadership positions at Westchester Community College (NY). Dr. Pippins has served on the CAEL Board of Trustees since 2007.
Merrilea J. Mayo
Presenting on November 19th at 4:00 p.m.
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING: WHAT MIGHT IT BE LIKE?
Merrilea J. Mayo is the Director of Future of Learning Initiatives at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Her portfolio of activities includes video-game-based learning, educational virtual worlds, and cell-phone delivered learning. Previously, from 2001-2006, Dr. Mayo was Director of the Government-University-Industry Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies. GUIRR focused on trisector issues such the science and engineering workforce, intellectual property rights, the impacts of globalization on national competitiveness, deemed exports regulations, and national-laboratory university collaborations.
Dr. Mayo’s earlier career included two years at Sandia National Laboratories, eleven years on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University, and a founding role in both ASTRA (an advocacy organization for the physical sciences) and the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (an organization devoted to improving the ability of companies and universities to conduct joint research). Dr. Mayo is a materials scientist and engineer by training, having received her Ph.D. in that field from Stanford University in 1988, publishing approximately 80 technical articles, and serving as the Materials Research Society’s President in 2003.
Rick Stephens
Presenting on November 20th at 11:30 a.m.
Richard (Rick) Stephens is Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration for The Boeing Company. Stephens also is a member of the Boeing Executive Council. A 29-year Boeing veteran, Stephens, 56, oversees all leadership development, training, employee relations, compensation, benefits, Global Corporate Citizenship, and diversity initiatives at the Chicago-based, $66.4 billion, 160,000-person commercial airplane and defense company.
Stephens serves on a number of non-profit and business focused boards and has been recognized for his long-standing leadership to local and national organizations. He is an advocate for aligning and integrating community leaders’ actions to develop a future workforce capable of the complex critical thinking and skills necessary for success in aerospace and other innovative industries. Stephens is an enrolled member of the Pala Band of Mission Indians and served as its chairman from 1988-89. He is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer.
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