At the IDEA Institute for AI, Ithaka S+R’s Claire Baytas will give a keynote talk on “Making AI Generative for Higher Education,” discussing products and uses for AI. The session will take place on August 26 at 9:00am ET. See the full schedule to learn more.
Past Events
Catharine Bond Hill, John B. King, Jr. and David Brooks at the ATI Presidential Summit
Supporting Adult Learners
Enrollment Strategies from a Pennsylvania Community of Practice
On August 13, 2025, Elizabeth Looker will be presenting and moderating a panel at the Higher Education Policy Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 10:00 AM-10:45 AM CST. With 36.8 million adults having some college experience but no degree (National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2024), re-engaging this population is critical as institutions face enrollment declines and workforce shortages. In Pennsylvania, nearly 100 representatives from 51 institutions have joined a year-long Adult Learner Re-Engagement Community of Practice, facilitated by Ithaka S+R…
Holistic Solutions for Counting All Learning
2025 Higher Education Policy Conference
Ithaka S+R’s Elise McNeely and Kyle Gray will be presenting and moderating a panel at the 2025 Higher Education Policy Conference. This panel will feature speakers from a research organization and two states discussing their efforts to support mobile postsecondary students in navigating credit mobility following a holistic model. They will share insights from their states’ participation in a recent case study and ongoing community of practice focused on approaches to holistic credit mobility to spread awareness of successful…
From Roadblocks to Roadmaps
Implementing Smart Transfer Policies and Practices Across States
On August 12, 2025, at the Higher Education Policy Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ithaka S+R’s Martin Kurzweil will participate in a panel session exploring the critical intersections between state policy and higher education transfer student success, focusing on Kansas, Missouri, and South Carolina. As states strive to enhance degree attainment and workforce readiness, effective transfer policies are essential for improving student outcomes, particularly for historically underrepresented and nontraditional students. This session will highlight innovative state-level policies, cross-sector collaboration, and…
Data with Purpose
Advancing Educational and Reentry Outcomes Through BID
This session at the Correctional Education Association 79th International Conference and Training Event will explore the critical role of data collection in supporting the Best Interest Determination (BID) process, emphasizing why this practice is essential for informed decision-making and effective service delivery. Ithaka S+R will provide attendees with insight into data collection, reporting, and evaluation processes and infrastructure from a broad, systems-level perspective, mapping the data landscape across stakeholder institutions and charting how it might shape policy and be used…
Improving Transfer Student Pathways
Coalition for College Annual Meeting & Conference
In 2024, several Coalition for College member institutions were selected for an American Talent Initiative grant aimed to fund efforts to support limited-income students. In this session, hear from three Coalition members whose projects focus on improving transfer pathways, specifically: Drexel University, for formalizing a direct admission transfer program with the Community College of Philadelphia; Stony Brook University, for implementing a dual admission program with Suffolk County Community College; and Stevens Institute of Technology for Creating the Stevens Transfer Student…
College and Beyond II
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Sponsored Research
With support from the Mellon Foundation and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Research on the Liberal Arts funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVDF), Ithaka S+R has undertaken a research project to understand the relationship between students’ exposure to a liberal education and their subsequent economic returns. On Friday, July 18, Elizabeth Davidson Pisacreta and Daniel Rossman will provide an update on their research at the College and Beyond II convening at the American Council of…
Future of Scientific Publishing Conference
Ithaka S+R’s Roger Schonfeld will chair a panel at the Royal Society’s Future of Scientific Publishing Conference, focusing on what scholarly communication might look like in the next 15 years, if journals in their current format could cease to be the main publishable unit, and discussion of the role of preprints, disaggregation of the journal article, and the dissemination of research outside of academia. The panel will include Dr. Alex Freeman, Dr. Richard Sever, Dr. Ijad Madisch, and Professor…
The Library and Institutional Success
The Chronicle's Virtual Leadership Program for Librarians
Ithaka S+R and The Chronicle of Higher Education are collaborating on an innovative professional development program tailored to the needs of prospective and current library leaders. This two-week program is designed to provide librarians with critical context on national trends to drive institutional success. The program will include seminars on: National Trends in Higher Education – July 14, 1pm ET Understanding the Higher Ed Business Model – July 15, 1pm ET Academic Libraries and Artificial Intelligence – July 16,…
Holistic Solutions for Mobile Postsecondary Students
At the Education Commission of the States National Forum on Education Policy, Ithaka S+R’s Martin Kurzweil will participate in a moderated panel discussion on holistic solutions for mobile postsecondary students. The panel will use a framework for holistic credit mobility to guide a conversation with speakers from Ohio and South Carolina, both of which are part of a new community of practice on credit mobility and/or were featured in a recent research case study highlighting promising policy, practices, and…
Student Veteran Pathways Through Admissions to Enrollment
Service2School VetLink Summit
Ithaka S+R’s Michael Fried will be facilitating a panel at the VetLink Summit in Washington DC on July 11, 2025. Fried will lead a discussion of the major decision points student veterans make during their transition from service to higher education featuring representatives from three American Talent Initiative member institutions. RSVP for the summit here.
Bridging Justice: Legal Information Support for the Incarcerated
ALA Annual Conference
Tammy Ortiz of Ithaka S+R will be at the American Libraries Association’s (ALA) Annual Conference to present their research on the importance of accessibility to legal information for incarcerated people. Tammy’s presentation will take place on Monday, June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT.
Tracking the COVID Class
How Cohort-Based Interventions Distinguished the College Journey for First-Generation Limited-Income Students Entering Fall 2020
At the 2025 NASPA Conference on Student Success in Higher Education on June 30 at 10:10am, Ithaka S+R’s Ifeatu Oliobi will join Gail Gibson, Kristen Glasener, and Shakima Clency of the Kessler Scholars Collaborative, as well as Carlota Deseda-Coon of Syracuse University, in a session sharing how cohort-based support distinguished the experience for first-generation limited-income students through the Kessler Scholars Collaborative. Learn more about the session.
Developing College Fluency
Strategies for Supporting Student Navigation and Success
At the NASPA Conference on Student Success in Higher Education, Melissa Blankstein, Elmira Jangjou, and jean amaral will lead a session on college fluency, sharing insights from Ithaka S+R work. “For me the college is just so big…you get bounced back and forth…you get lost in bureaucracy.” Most of us have heard similar stories from our students as most may not know what programs and assistance are available nor how to access them, impacting their well-being and academic success.
Turning the Page: The Role of Libraries in Re-entry
ALA Annual Conference
At the American Library Association’s (ALA) Annual Conference, Ithaka S+R’s Tammy Ortiz will be presenting their research on the impact that access to libraries have on incarcerated individuals and their re-entry outcomes. This session will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT.
National Association of College and University Attorneys Conference
At the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) annual conference in June 2025, Ithaka S+R’s Catharine Bond Hill will speak at a featured session alongside Timothy Lynch, the Vice President and General Counsel at the University of Michigan. The session is scheduled for 11:00am-12:30pm PT on June 23, 2025. See the full schedule to learn more.
From Debt to Degrees
Strategies Drive Re-Enrollment
Join us on June 12, 1 pm CST for “From Debt to Degrees: Strategies Drive Re-Enrollment,” a webinar covering actionable strategies to tackle institutional debt and transcript holds while creating pathways for adult learners to successfully return and complete their degrees. Discover what’s working—from debt forgiveness to success coaching—with insights from ReUp Education, Ithaka S+R, and Ohio’s innovative College Comeback Compact. Panelists include Brittany Pearce (Ithaka S+R) and Ben Shoemaker (ReUp). Register to join the webinar.
Creating Sustainable Data Infrastructure
Collection & Reporting
Ithaka S+R’s Alex Monday will be participating in a talk at Aligning Efforts: Navigating the Intersection of Student Services and Prison Education Agenda, hosted by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) in Washington DC. The question of data collection and data reporting for prison education programs is complex. This conversation will explore what data should be collected, how that data can be consolidated and analyzed, and mechanisms for data sharing. In conversation with Alex Monday, Donna…
AI Summit 2025
Ithaka S+R’s Claire Baytas will speak at the University of Baltimore’s AI Summit 2025, which offers an in-depth exploration of artificial intelligence’s transformative impact across sectors, with a particular focus on workforce development, educational adaptation, and responsible innovation. Learn more about the event, scheduled for June 3, 2025.
The Chronicle’s Strategic-Leadership Program for Department Chairs
As a bridge between administration and faculty, department chairs have one of the toughest jobs on campus. Research experts at Ithaka S+R will join experienced academic leaders at Dever Justice LLC in a program hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education that will help guide new and experienced chairs through the challenges and transformative opportunities of their role. This series has been enhanced to improve the participant experience through greater scheduling flexibility and a more dynamic program format. This program…