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Agenda

April 29, 2008

Welcome Reception and Dinner

Welcome and Remarks and Keynote (view video)

Welcome and Remarks

• The Honorable Henrietta Fore, Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator

Keynote

• His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda

The Challenges of Creating a Relevant Higher Education Sector for Africa’s Development

April 30, 2008

Summit Proceedings

Plenary Opening (view video)

Welcome

• Henrietta Fore, USAID Administrator

Opening Keynote

•The Honorable Margaret Spellings, U.S. Secretary of Education

Plenary Session (view video)

• Thomas Corts, Coordinator of Basic Education, Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance, U.S. Department of State

• Iqbal Noor Ali, CEO, Aga Khan Foundation USA

• Arden Bement, Jr., Director, National Science Foundation

• Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

• The Honorable Samuel Bodman, U.S. Secretary of Energy

• Nina Fedoroff, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State and the Administrator of USAID

Framing the Conference and Speaker Introduction

• Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Library of Alexandria)

From Papyrus to PDFs: the Library Comes of Age

Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session I: Courses for Everyone Everywhere

Breakout Session II: Flattening the World: Hardware/Software for Teaching and Collaboration between Continents

Breakout Session III: The Global Professoriate: Building Strength In Situ

Breakout Session IV: The Academic and the Entrepreneur: The Building Blocks of Future Business

Breakout Session V: Building a 21st Century Global University from Scratch

Breakout Session VI: Global Health in an Age of Global Mobility

Breakout Session VII: Women Leaders and Innovators

Breakout Session VIII: Academia and Business: Fostering New Kinds of Connections

Breakout Session IX: A Learner-Centered Future: Colleges for Tomorrow

Breakout Session X: Networking: Today and Tomorrow

Breakout Session XI: Developing Sustainably and Sustainability: The Role of the Academic Scientist

Plenary Session (View Video)

• The Honorable Michael Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

• The Honorable Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor

Plenary Closing

• Henrietta Fore, USAID Administrator

Reports from Breakout Groups and Summary Remarks

Closing Address

• The Honorable Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State


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