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Save the Date! 2025 Wisconsin Higher Education Summit

Save the date for the 10th annual summit, May 28-30, 2025, at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union.

WAICU and the Universities of Wisconsin are once again co-hosting this event, bringing together higher education leaders and practitioners from across both public and private institutions.

Plan to attend and gain practical knowledge on relevant topics that affect higher education and collaborate on ways to meet the challenges to mitigate risk and elevate higher education in Wisconsin.

WAICU is celebrating the 10th anniversary of working with Peter Lake. Peter Lake is professor of law, Charles A. Dana chair, and director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University College of Law. He has spent nearly thirty-five years in higher education as a teacher and administrator. Prior to joining the Stetson Law faculty in 1990, Professor Lake practiced law in New York City at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a current member of the New York State Bar Association.

WAICU has also just Summit speaker Edwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Prior to assuming this current position, Professor Chemerinsky was the founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and a professor at Duke Law School, University of Southern California Law School, and DePaul Law School. He is the author of twenty books and more than 200 law review articles. His most recent major book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States, was published in August 2024. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court. In 2022, he was the president of the Association of American Law Schools.

The Summit Website contains preliminary information. Check back for updates on speakers, agenda, and registration.

For more information, email WAICU Director of Member Services Shawn Robin.