Action Hubs
A broad coalition of partners focused on creating the conditions for a thriving higher education sector and democracy.
Action Hubs
A central component of the Alliance's coalition and complementary to the work underway in Democracy's Campus 2036, the Alliance and its partners have established Action Hubs that focus on specific issue areas within the higher education and democracy sectors essential to advancing the Alliance's core principles.
Each Hub has defined goals and is comprised of individuals and representatives from partner organizations who come together on a regular basis to share information, strategize, coordinate, and activate plans using the Collective Impact Theory of Change. Action Hub members seek to address the following questions to change the conditions that surround higher education and its ecosystem that impact the capacity to research, learn, and elevate student success equitably:
1. What are the biggest challenges or concerns, at the state or federal levels, related to sector autonomy, academic freedom, and equity facing the issue area on which the Hub focuses?
2. What are we, in our individual capacities and/or at our respective organizations, currently doing to address these challenges?
3. What can we do collectively that we can't do separately and what can the Alliance do that the sector and/or current partners do not have bandwidth for, or that would allow organizations to return their focus to their original missions?
This page will be updated as Hubs advance their work.
Each Hub has defined goals and is comprised of individuals and representatives from partner organizations who come together on a regular basis to share information, strategize, coordinate, and activate plans using the Collective Impact Theory of Change. Action Hub members seek to address the following questions to change the conditions that surround higher education and its ecosystem that impact the capacity to research, learn, and elevate student success equitably:
1. What are the biggest challenges or concerns, at the state or federal levels, related to sector autonomy, academic freedom, and equity facing the issue area on which the Hub focuses?
2. What are we, in our individual capacities and/or at our respective organizations, currently doing to address these challenges?
3. What can we do collectively that we can't do separately and what can the Alliance do that the sector and/or current partners do not have bandwidth for, or that would allow organizations to return their focus to their original missions?
This page will be updated as Hubs advance their work.
Action Hubs and Chairs*:
- Academic Freedom**
- Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences**
- Nonpartisan Voter Engagement - Stephanie King, Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives, ALL IN | Clarissa Unger, Co-Founder & Executive Director, SLSV Coalition. More information is available here.
- Governance
- Infrastructure for Equity - Emelyn A. dela Pena, President and CEO, NADOHE | Paulette Granberry Russell, President Emerita, NADOHE, and Alliance for Higher Education Board Member. More information is available here.
- Legal Strategy** - Rachel Homer, Director of Democracy 2025, Democracy Forward | Shiva Kooragayala, Counsel, Democracy Forward | Kali Schellenberg, Senior Counsel, Democracy Forward. More information is available here.
- Policy Research, Development and Coordination - Rachel Fishman, Director, Higher Education, New America | Carlos Mariani Rosa, Executive Director, MNEEP | Tambryanna Akoi, Director for College Race Equity, MNEEP | Laura Benitez, Senior Manager, State Policy and Government Affairs, PEN America. More information available here.
- Advancing Public Trust in Higher Education** - Felicia Fullilove, Associate Director in the Office of Leadership and Strategy, AAC&U | Jeremy Young, Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, AAC&U. More information available here.
- STEM Education** - National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE). More information available here.
- Student Partnerships, Access and Success
*Action Hubs with no chair listed are led by confidential partners
**Action Hub led by a partner organization