UMass Amherst Chancellor to Host Presidents of GCC, SHNU to Examine ‘Higher Education in a Time of Social Change’

Panel Discussion Set for Monday, March 2, 4-6 p.m.
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AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy will be joined by Greenfield Community College President Yves Salomon-Fernandez and Southern New Hampshire University President Paul J. LeBlanc for a panel discussion, “Higher Education in a Time of Social Change,” from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, March 2, in the Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall on the UMass Amherst campus.

The event, organized by the UMass Amherst College of Education, will explore the challenges and opportunities facing higher education and will be moderated by Kathryn A. McDermott, chair of the college’s Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration. The three panelists will also answer questions submitted by current graduate students in the higher education program.

The event is free and open to the public. Media are invited to attend.

Subbaswamy has been chancellor at UMass Amherst since 2012. A physicist by training, and an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, he has spent most of his entire professional life at public research universities.

Salomon-Fernandez has previously served as president of Cumberland County College in New Jersey and interim president of Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley. She is a staunch advocate for reinventing higher education in the age of the fourth industrial revolution, and was named one of the Top 25 Women in Higher Education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education in 2018 for her passion and dedication to access and equity in higher education.

For 16 years, LeBlanc has led SNHU, growing the university from 2,500 to more than 100,000 on campus and online. He serves on the American Council on Education’s board of directors and on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Board on Higher Education and the Workforce.