Leadership Strategies to Create More Student-Ready Institutions: Resources from the National Academies' Roundtable

Thursday, January 22, 2026

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time

Location: Mount Vernon Square - Level M3

Primary Presenter(s)

Ann Austin

University Distinguished Professor
Michigan State University
Okemos, Michigan, United States

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Co-Presenter(s)

Kerry Brenner

Senior Program Officer
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Andrea Follmer Greenhoot

Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Professor of Psychology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Mark Lee

Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs
Spelman College
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

The challenge facing higher education institutions to prepare a diverse array of learners to contribute to a changing society and workplace and to live meaningful and impactful lives requires systemic approaches to improving undergraduate education. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has sponsored a Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education over the past seven years. This interactive session will highlight a set of succinct, accessible resource modules developed by the Roundtable for use by higher education leaders to foster conversation, planning, and change within their colleges and universities—all to advance systemic change that enables more effective student learning experiences. Participants will have the opportunity to review the full set of modules, delve deeply into the strategies and resources shared in the Module on Creating Student-Ready Institutions, and consider practical ways to use the modules to advance their own institutional priorities.