Two upcoming, back-to-back meetings in Phoenix, both open to the public, focus on education issues in the West. The Western Alliance of Community College Academic Leaders (the Alliance) holds its first annual meeting, themed “Change by Design @ EDU,” on April 17-18. Alliance’s members are the chief academic officers of community colleges and technical schools in the 15 WICHE states, along with their associated system and state agencies. The Western Academic Leadership Forum (the Forum) holds its annual meeting, themed “Academic Leadership in the West: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Innovation,” on April 18-20. Forum members are provosts of the four-year institutions and the chief academic officers of the related system and state agencies in the WICHE region. Plenary speakers at the Forum meeting include Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University; José Cruz from The Education Trust; Terry Hartle from the American Council on Education; and Diana Natalicio, president of the University of Texas El Paso. Henry Eyring, author of the recently published The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out, will discuss his book. For more information visit the Forum and Alliance websites.

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