Match night march 2016

Match Night, March 2016

Match CEO Stig Leschly takes questions from the audience.

Answering key questions

We started the evening by asking audience members to answer two key questions: how'd we get here in higher ed, and where do we go now?

Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University

"We need dramatic advances in technology, and we need to blow up delivery models to serve students marginalized by incumbent system."

Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School

"We need an ordinate model that will generate greater middle skills, greater employability and upward mobility."

Jamie Merisotis, President, Lumina Foundation

"These kinds of ideas, and partnerships between College for America and Match Beyond, have huge scale potential."

Andrew Balson, CEO, Match Beyond

"We love our students, and together with College for America, Match Beyond is creating college success and entree into the middle class."

Lively Q&A

The evening featured a lively Q&A with audience members. Here, Jim Peyser, Massachusetts's Secretary of Education, poses a question to panelists.

We hosted the fourth annual Match Night in March 2016. The theme of the evening was "Innovation in Higher Education and Workforce Development" with special guests Paul LeBlanc, the president of Southern New Hampshire University; Jamie Merisotis, president of the Lumina Foundation; Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School; and our own Andrew Balson, the CEO of Match Beyond. We had an intimate audience of 100 on hand for a lively discussion. Here are a few highlights.