Annual Report - Board of Trustees, Fiscal Year 2017 - The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Oct 15, 2026

Annual report of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for fiscal year 2017, presented by the Board of Trustees. It outlines the Foundation’s mission to identify and develop leaders and institutions addressing critical educational challenges, and describes how fellowships support talented individuals at key moments while shaping universities, schools, and organizations. The report highlights progress toward access to education for all Americans, referencing historical barriers and emphasizing the need for updated approaches amid U.S. transitions to a global digital economy.

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Board of Trustees and Fiscal Year 2017

Mission and Fellowship Impact

Access to Education and Barriers

2017 ANNUAL REPORT Board of Trustees, Fiscal Year 2017 The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Foundation Report, 2017 Thomas C. Hudnut, Chair Partner, RG175 H. Kim Bottomly* Former President, Wellesley College Walter W. Buckley, Jr., Chair Emeritus Co-Founder and President, Buckley Muething Capital Management Jane Phillips Donaldson Co-Founder, Phillips Oppenheim Carl Ferenbach III Chairman, High Meadows Foundation Jennifer Gruenberg N. Gerry House President and Chief Executive Officer, The Institute for Student Achievement Robert F. Johnston Founder, Johnston Associates, Inc. Tom Kalinske Chairman and Co-Founder, Global Education Learning Martha Kanter Executive Director, College Promise Campaign John Katzman Founder and Chairman, Noodle Education, Inc. Shirley Strum Kenny**, WW Fellow Former President, Stony Brook University, State University of New York Arthur Levine President, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation William Lilley III, WW Fellow Chairman, Planet Risk, Inc. Frank Lorenzo** Chairman, Savoy Capital Lauren Maddox Senior Policy Advisor, Holland & Knight (as of December 2017) Nancy Weiss Malkiel, WW Fellow, Chair Emerita Professor, Princeton University Karen Osborne Senior Strategist, The Osborne Group Matthew Pittinsky Chief Executive Officer, Parchment Inc. Deborah Quazzo Founder and Managing Partner, GSV Acceleration John Rice Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Management Leadership for Tomorrow Judith A. Rizzo Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, The James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy David N. Shane* CEO (Retired), LDI Ltd., LLC Luther Tai Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Roberts Bay Marina Jessie Woolley-Wilson Chair, President, and CEO, DreamBox Learning * = new in FY 2017 ** = departed during/at end of FY 2017 Abbreviations Used in This Report AF = WW Administrative Fellow/Intern CEF = Career Enhancement Fellow CN = Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow DS = WW Dissertation Grant Supplement FS = WW Staff (Former) FT = Former Woodrow Wilson Trustee GFAF = Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow (graduate) H = Honorary MBA = WW MBA Fellow in Education Leadership MLK = Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellow MN = Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies PP = Public Policy/International Affairs Fellow RU = Rural Policy Fellow ST = WW Staff (Current) TF = WW Teaching Fellow (2009–present) TE = Woodrow Wilson Trustee Emerita/Emeritus TR = Woodrow Wilson Trustee VF = WW Visiting Fellow WF = Woodrow Wilson Fellow WS = WW Women’s Studies Fellow WT = Woodrow Wilson Teacher (1982–2003) On the cover: Woodrow Wilson Academy Design Fellows Doyung Lee and Xavier Tirado ponder a challenge in refining the new WW Academy curriculum All photos by Frances M. Hannan, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, or provided, with courtesy, to the Foundation unless otherwise noted. Dear Friends: On behalf of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s Board of Trustees, I am delighted to share with you this report on the Foundation’s work in its 2017 fiscal year. Since its early days after World War II, the Foundation has set very high standards for academic excellence and worked to ensure that those who have the ability to achieve such standards get to the starting line, with a fair chance to succeed asthe next generation of scholars, teachers, and leaders. Hence the mission of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation: to identify and develop leaders and institutions to address the nation’s critical educational challenges. The fellowships that the Foundation offers not only give talented people a boost at key moments in their careers, but also help to shape the universities, schools, and organizations in which they work. Those of us who serve on the Foundation’s Board take tremendous pride in this mission. For more than seven decades, the Foundation

FAQs

What is the Foundation’s core mission described in the report?

The mission is to identify and develop leaders and institutions to address the nation’s critical educational challenges.

How does the report describe the role of fellowships?

Fellowships provide a boost for talented people at key career moments and help shape the universities, schools, and organizations where they work.

Why does the report say the definition of educational access needs updating?

It argues that the historic view no longer fits current national needs because the U.S. has transitioned from an analog industrial economy to a global digital information economy, disrupting many Americans’ lives and work.

Oct 15, 2026

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