Higher Education & COVID-19: The Future of Learning, Opportunity, and Work

On Thursday, October 8, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution will host a webcast discussion examining the future of higher education and workforce development during COVID-19 and beyond. The webcast event will feature a keynote address from Rep. Bobby Scott (Va.-03), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor.

Following the keynote remarks, the webcast will include a roundtable discussion with: Mary Sue Coleman, former president, Association of American Universities and president emerita, University of Michigan; Andrew P. Kelly, senior vice president for strategy and policy, The University of North Carolina System; James Kvaal, president, The Institute for College Access & Success; Belle Wheelan, president, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges; moderated by Hamilton Project Policy Director Kristen Broady. It will also feature a research discussion with: Richard Arum, dean, School of Education, University of California, Irvine; Mitchell Stevens, professor of education, Stanford University; moderated by Hamilton Project Director Wendy Edelberg.