Keynote Speaker
Wendy Fischman, Project Director of Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

Keynote Topic
The Real World of College: What Higher Education is and What It can Be

Keynote Highlights
Wendy Fischman and Professor Howard Gardner led a large-scale national study of higher education across ten different campuses in the United States: an eight-year study of non-vocational higher education.

Let us learn from this large-scale national study of the United States:

• If higher education is to be successful in the 21st century, what needs to be sharply reframed?
• Learn detailed and powerful examples of what work and what doesn’t work.
• What higher education will look like in this changing world and how we should response to these changes.

Keynote’s Biodata
Wendy Fischman joined Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1995. As a Project Director, she has studied the meaning of education and work in the lives of young children, adolescents, and novice professionals. Wendy has written about education and human development in several scholarly and popular articles, and co-developed The Good Work Toolkit, a curriculum for teachers and students to discuss issues of excellence, ethics, and engagement. With Howard Gardner, she led a large-scale national study of higher education across ten different campuses. She is the lead author of Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work (Harvard University Press) and a book about higher education, The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press).