2025 Monday General Session Keynote

Dr. Carrie B. Kisker
President, Kisker Education Consulting

We Are All Guardians: Teaching, Learning, and Leading as Mission Protection

As confidence in higher education reaches an all-time low, declining enrollments threaten public funding, and legislative priorities force changes to student support programs, community college stakeholders—faculty, staff, administrators, trustees, and others—must work in ways that protect and defend the foundational principles upon which our institutions stand. Drawing on ways that community colleges have evolved over time in response to shifting priorities and expectations, this keynote address provides a roadmap for protecting the institutional mission and social role of our institutions through everyday work to serve students and communities.