Showcase Maine - Keynote Speaker Announced

FAME's annual meeting, Showcase Maine, will be held on November 10, 2009 at the Holiday Inn By the Bay.  We are pleased to have Dr. Sandy Baum as the keynote speaker this year.  Her topic will be Investing in Higher Education: The Future of Our Economy.  Dr. Baum is a Senior Policy Analyst at the College Board and former Professor of Economics at Skidmore College.  She has written extensively on issues relating to college access, college pricing, student aid policy, student debt, affordability, and other aspects of higher education finance.

Dr. Baum is the co-author of Trends in Student Aid, Trends in College Pricing, and Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society for the College Board. Other recent work includes studies of setting benchmarks for manageable student debt levels and of tuition discounting in public and private colleges and universities. She co-chaired the Rethinking Student Aid study group, which recently issued comprehensive proposals for reform of the federal student aid system.

More details and registration will be available soon.