ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS

The essay, "A Promise Worth Keeping" was based on a January 1997 roundtable discussion among administrative leaders and trustees of California's public and private institutions of higher education, public officials responsible for charting California's educational course, and citizen-leaders searching for new ways to affirm the social compact among the state of California, its citizens, and its public and private institutions of higher education.

The roundtable was jointly convened by the California Higher Education Policy Center and the Pew Higher Education Roundtable, and was co-sponsored by the California Education Roundtable, RAND, the California Postsecondary Education Commission, and the California Citizens Commission on Higher Education. The roundtable was supported by funds provided by The James Irvine Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Ford Foundation, and the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

The following individuals participated in that discussion and helped to shape the resulting essay:

Robert Atwell President Emeritus American Council on Education Nancy Bekavac President Scripps College Dominic Brewer Economist Institute on Education and Training RAND Roy T. Brophy Regent University of California Patrick M. Callan Executive Director The California Higher Education Policy Center Martha Fallgatter Chairman, Board of Trustees California State University Joni Finney Associate Director The California Higher Education Policy Center Warren Halsey Fox Executive Director California Postsecondary Education Commission Walter B. Gerken Chairman of the Equity Board PIMCO Advisors Charles Goldman Economist Institute on Education and Training RAND John Immerwahr Senior Research Fellow Public Agenda Foundation C. Judson King Provost and Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs University of California Robert Laffoon-Villegas Director of Research and Communications California Citizens Commission on Higher Education

Jeff Marston Chair California Postsecondary Education Commission William J. Moore Chair Higher Education Policy Institute Barry Munitz Chancellor California State University Thomas Nussbaum Chancellor California Community Colleges John C. Petersen Retired Executive Director Accrediting Commission for California Community and Junior Colleges Alice Petrossian President, Board of Governors California Community Colleges William Pickens Director California Citizens Commission on Higher Education Peter Schrag Contributing Editor Sacramento Bee Virginia B. Smith Vice Chair Higher Education Policy Institute Jean Smith Chair, Board of Trustees Scripps College Gregory R. Wegner Associate Director, Institute for Research on Higher Education University of Pennsylvania Harold Williams President and CEO The J. Paul Getty Trust Robert Zemsky Professor and Director, Institute for Research on Higher Education University of Pennsylvania