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Governance of Project Pericles

Project Pericles is governed by its Chairman and executive staff, the Board of Directors, the Presidents' Council, and the National Board of Advisors.

Board of Directors

Chairman: Eugene M. Lang Founder and President, Project Pericles; Chairman Emeritus, Swarthmore College; Trustee, The New School; Founder and Chairman Emeritus, "I Have A Dream" Foundation

Executive Director: Jan R. Liss Ex officio; former Associate Director, The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program; former Vice President, Strategic Planning and New Business Development, Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports)

Alison R. Bernstein Vice President, Education, Creativity and Free Expression, Ford Foundation; former Assoc. Dean of Faculty, Princeton University; former Exec. Editor, Change magazine; Member, Board of Advisors, CAPHE

Alfred H. Bloom Vice Chancellor of New York University Abu Dhabi; President Emeritus, Swarthmore College; former Provost, Pitzer College; former Chairman, Annapolis Group of Liberal Arts Colleges; Board Member, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

David A. Caputo President Emeritus, Pace University; former President, Hunter College; former Dean of Liberal Arts, Purdue University; Co-chair, Professional Standards of Teaching, N.Y.S. Board of Regents

Janet S. Dickerson - Vice President for Campus Life, Princeton University

Richard Ekman President, Council of Independent Colleges; former Vice President for Programs, Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company; former Secretary of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Neil R. Grabois Former Vice President, Carnegie Corporation of New York; former President, Colgate University; former Provost, Williams College

Leo M. Lambert President, Elon University; former Provost and Vice Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse

Arthur E. Levine President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation; former President, Teachers College (Columbia University); former Chairman, Higher Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education; former President, Bradford College

Michael S. McPherson President, The Spencer Foundation; former President, Macalester College

Nancy B. Peretsman Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Allen & Co., Inc.

Brian Rosenberg - Ex officio; Chair, Project Pericles Presidents' Council; President, Macalester College

Mark A. Vander Ploeg - Senior Managing Director, Evercore Partners

Harris L. Wofford Chairman, America's Promise, The Alliance for Youth; former CEO, The Corporation for National Service; former U.S. Senator; former President, Bryn Mawr College


Presidents' Council

Chair: Brian Rosenberg*, Macalester College
Vice-Chair: Richard Gurasci*,Wagner College

James H. Mullen, Jr.*
Allegheny College
Elaine Tuttle Hansen*
Bates College
Larry D. Shinn
Berea College
Trudie Kibbe Reed
Bethune-Cookman University
Robert A. Oden Jr.
Carleton College
Esther L. Barazzone
Chatham University
Marvalene Hughes
Dillard University
Robert Weisbuch
Drew University
Douglas C. Bennett
Earlham College
Leo M. Lambert
Elon University
Ralph J. Hexter*
Hampshire College
J. Timothy Cloyd*
Hendrix College
Michele D. Perkins
New England College

*(Executive Committee)

Bob Kerrey
The New School
Jonathan Veitch
Occidental College
Stephen J. Friedman
Pace University
Laura Skandera Trombley*
Pitzer College
Shirley Ann Jackson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
William E. Troutt
Rhodes College
Larry E. Vote
St. Mary's College of Maryland
Beverly Daniel Tatum*
Spelman College
Rebecca Chopp*
Swarthmore College
John Strassburger
Ursinus College
James T. Harris, III
Widener University
Grant H. Cornwell
The College of Wooster


National Board of Advisors

Co-Chairs: Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker & Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke

  • David Baltimore
  • John Baugh
  • J. Herman Blake
  • Roger W. Bowen
  • Harry C. Boyte
  • Sen. Bill Bradley
  • Paul Brest
  • Russell L. Carson
  • Raymond G. Chambers
  • Jerome A. Chazen
  • Nadinne Cruz
  • Gov. Mario M. Cuomo
  • Richard A. Detweiler
  • Christopher F. Edley, Jr.
  • Thomas Ehrlich
  • Jonathan F. Fanton
  • Nicholas H. Farnham
  • Ellen V. Futter
  • Curtis B. Gans
  • Llewellyn P. Haden, Jr.
  • Samuel L. Hayes III
  • Antonia Hernandez
  • Amb. James C. Hormel
  • Helene L. Kaplan
  • Gov. Thomas H. Kean
  • Reuben Mark
  • Elizabeth McCormack
  • Mary Patterson McPherson
  • Robert D. Putnam
  • Judith A. Ramaley
  • David M. Scobey
  • Ruth J. Simmons
  • Allen P. Splete

In Memoriam

  • Clark Kerr (co-chair)
  • John Nason
  • Paul Newman
  • Sen. Paul Simon