Panel on the Past and Future of Higher Education

May 15, 2026

Penn President J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD opened the conversation for a panel of former university presidents gathered at Perry World House to discuss higher education and the unique challenges it is facing.  The panel featured Penn alumnus Mark Yudof, former president of the University of California and the University of Minnesota and former chancellor of the University of Texas; alumnus Elaine Maimon, former president of Governors State University and former chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage; John Silvanus Wilson Jr., former president of Morehouse College and executive director of Penn’s McGraw Center for Educational Leadership; and Nicholas Lemann, former dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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Photographs by Eddy Marenco.