This special broadcast of the MIT Forum for Equity from March 24, 2021, addresses challenges facing higher education leadership today.
Presidents emerita Drew Faust (Harvard) and Susan Hockfield (MIT) join Paula Johnson, President of Wellesley College, for a discussion of the particular obstacles women face at the helm of colleges and universities and offer insights on other topics surrounding equity and inclusion on campus.
Drew Faust, President Emerita and Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University; Member, MIT Corporation
Susan Hockfield HM, President Emerita and Professor of Neuroscience; Member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Paula Johnson, President, Wellesley College
Moderator: Whitney Espich, CEO, MIT Alumni Association
This interactive forum is open to the MIT, Harvard, and Wellesley College communities.
Presented by the MIT Alumni Association, the Forum for Equity aims to engage alumni through thoughtful online conversations that help educate, inform, and examine the problems focused on social justice and help to catalyze change in our communities and in the world. The Forum for Equity is made possible in part by a grant from the MIT MindHandHeart Community Innovation Fund.
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