Paul Elsner & Associates
Paul Elsner, President, has presided over the largest system of community colleges in the United States as a twenty-three year tenured Chancellor of the huge Maricopa Community Colleges system, which enrolls over 260,000 credit students in university transfer, technical occupations, and fast track work force strategies. In addition, Paul Elsner has served in numerous board and leadership capacities. His wide experience includes chairman of the Board of Trustees of Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey and the American College Testing (ACT); two of the largest assessment and testing operations in the world. His other leadership capacities include past president of the League for Innovation, president of the Urban Commission and board member of the parent American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Paul Elsner also founded RC2000, an international consortium of the world’s 30 largest technical community colleges and further education systems. Paul Elsner sits as a Board of Trustee for the SIAS International University in Zhengzhou, China and has advised the University on strategic direction in areas of international recruitment, faculty and staff development and fundraising. Elsner’s long history spanning a 12-year service arrangement with the Chengdu policy leaders and the larger Chengdu outlying region provided core teaching capacity for the Chengdu Foreign Affairs and Economic Development offices in course and training institutes range from meeting international accounting standards; world safety and environmental standards; chemical washes and industrial solvent safety and hazards; large scale retail; judiciary referral and human service support for young offenders; and consumer and identity fraud. Paul Elsner serves on a 26 member Washington based commission that addresses work force skills needed in competing and sustaining of world capacity in the new global economy. The 26 member commission is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Casey Foundation and the Hewlett and Lumina Foundations. The Commission is staffed by the National Center on the Economy and Education (NCEE) and is Chaired by Charles Knapp formerly president of the Aspen Institute and the University of Georgia. Marc Tucker ably leads the staff and is the principal investigator for the Commission along with several former cabinet members, past governors, congressmen and policy experts that round out the Commission’s membership. Elsner has also been named in numerous commissions and studies, including being one of Education’s Most Influential Policy Leaders (Change Magazine); Most Innovative College and University President (Chronicle of Higher Education); and recipient of numerous prizes and citations including the McGraw Hill and the Anderson Medal, the latter issued by the prestigious American Council On Education’s Business Higher Education Forum. Elsner completed his Doctorate at Stanford University and is a graduate of Harvard’s Institute for Educational Management (IEM). Elsner speaks and consults worldwide, including the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Jamaica, Ireland, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and extensively in China. Elsner is often invited to speak to faculty convocations and symposiums - he has most recently worked with faculty groups on revitalization and the defining of the important role of the humanities, the need for global awareness strategies among our faculties and students. He has written on such topics as authenticity in leadership style and in learning strategy to achieve greater student and staff engagement. He likes working from a faculty and learner base in constructing effective institutional effectiveness. Paul Elsner’s wide ranging publications have addressed in recent books the topic of civility on our campuses, building communities, and most currently his work as a senior editor of a 23 country global survey of Community College, Technical College and Further Education Developments amassed and coordinated by 36 contributing authors on global developments in these three post secondary segments in 23 countries. This important work will be soon released by the AACC Press. In addition to Paul Elsner Associates international base, the company puts on forums, conferences and conversations under the auspices of The Sedona Conversations, an organization founded by Paul Elsner in 1999. Conferences and forums have included topics that analyze the social implications of technology on the developing world. These symposia have covered such topics as:
For further references to Paul Elsner’s involvements, projects and edge thinking, please visit our partner websites at The Sedona Conversations and The Sedona-Edge.
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