(first row, left to right)
Patricia Long, Baker University
Sally Winship, Johnson County Community College
Cindy Miller, Columbia College
Terry Calaway, Johnson County Community College

(second row, left to right)
Jim Guikema, Kansas State University
Dale Carder, University of Central Missouri
Kevin Eichner, Ottawa University

(third row, left to right)
Michael Droge, Park University
Joe Sweeney, Ingram's Magazine
Edwin Robinson, MidAmerica Nazarene University
Bernard Franklin, Penn Valley Community College

(fourth row, left to right)
Terry Haines, Ottawa University
Ron Slepitza, Avila University
Jennifer Mathes, DeVry University
Gail Hackett, University of Missouri—KC
Tom Burke, Kansas City Kansas Community College

(fifth row, left to right)
Doug Dunham, Northwest Missouri State University
Brad Hodson, Pittsburg State University

(back row, left to right)
Al Hawkins, Rockhurst University
Gordon Mapley, Missouri Western State University
Belinda McCarthy, Missouri State University

Tough issues face higher-education leaders

On a rainy August afternoon in the unusually cool summer of 2009, more than 20 higher-education leaders from across Missouri and Kansas met to hash out the contemporary state of affairs in higher education.

Attendees came from as far east as Columbia, as far west as Manhattan, as far north as Maryville and as far south as Springfield. They met at the “Cube,” a unique, glass-paneled conference room in the sparkling new Regnier Center on the campus of Johnson County Community College, the host and co-sponsor of the event.

This was the ninth annual Higher Education Industry Outlook assembly organized by Ingram’s Magazine. Ably chairing the event was Johnson County Community College President Terry Calaway.