RELEASE DATE: February 13, 2007
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National reports on education to be presented at Joint Education Governing Boards meeting
State Board of Community Colleges to host gathering
RALEIGH - Advancing the “Seamless System of Education” is the focus of this year’s meeting of the governing boards of all education systems in North Carolina. To that end, two important reports on education will be presented to the group. One focuses on higher education and the other on K-12 education issues.
The presentations begin at 1:00 at SAS Institute in Cary on Thursday, February 15.
The first report, presented by Rick Stephens, Boeing VP of Human Resources and Administration, and a member of the Spellings Commission, focuses on the findings of that Commission chaired by U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.
The second report, gives full attention to issues affecting the future of education in the K-12 environment. Marc Tucker, President of the National Center on Education and the Economy, will share his message with the audience.
The full agenda is follows.
TIME PRESENTATION / ACTIVITY PRESENTER
11:30 a.m. Call to Order Ms. Hilda Pinnix-Ragland
Chair, State Board of Community Colleges
11:35 a.m. Welcome Kathy Lee
General Manager of the SAS Education
& Medical Practice
SAS Institute, Inc.
11:40 a.m. Invocation Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy
President, Johnson C. Smith University
Chair, N. C. Independent Colleges and Universities
11:45 a.m. Lunch Transportation from Building V
to Building F
1:00 p.m. Return from Lunch Transportation from Building F
to Building V
1:10 p.m. Introductions
1:15 p.m. Report of the U.S. Secretary of Mr. Rick Stephens
Education’s Commission on the VP of Human Resources and
Future of Higher Education Administration, The Boeing Company
2:00 p.m. “Tough Choices or Tough Times” Mr. Marc Tucker
Report of The New Commission President, National Center
on the Skills of the on Education and the Economy
American Workforce
2:45 p.m. Questions and Comments from
Board Members
3:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks Ms. Hilda Pinnix-Ragland
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