The Forum for Excellence in Higher Education
The Forum for Excellence in Higher Education brings together a select group of fourteen outstanding colleges and universities – some of the best in the nation. Each is committed to ongoing efforts to strengthen their undergraduates’ experience, and American higher education more broadly, in new ways. Participants meet repeatedly at a series of two-day intensive sessions called “Executive Sessions.” The goal is for each campus to explore how to help their students to maximize the quality and value of their precious time at college. To accomplish this goal, each college currently is developing two focused, new initiatives for students. A special feature of this Forum is that working collegially, each college rigorously assesses and evaluates the impact of their initiatives. The ultimate goal is to build innovations with measurably successful outcomes into the fabric campus life. In the end, the main point is the obvious one: that each campus’s students will benefit.

Young Faculty Leaders' Forum
Nearly four years ago a group of 32 scholars from leading universities across the country began meeting at Harvard University. Their unique charge was to come up with, and bring to the entire group, the best and brightest ideas for actionable change within the U.S. educational system. This select group of young scholars – rising “stars” within their academic communities – was encouraged to be bold and provocative in their thinking. Specifically, they were encouraged to challenge the conventional wisdom. Today, the Young Faculty Leaders' Forum (YFLF), is sponsored by seven individual donors, and brings together 25 young faculty stars from 15 different universities, encouraging cross-disciplinary work among young faculty leaders, and exposing them to ideas from business and from government to expand their experiences.The YFLF has already led to a series of published papers and reports that have caught the attention of public sector leaders, especially urban School Superintendents.