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Tim Renick (Founding Executive Director of Georgia State's National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University)

Tim Renick

Founding Executive Director of Georgia State's National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University
https://www.gsu.edu/

At Georgia State, he has served as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Honors Program. Since 2008, he has directed the student success and enrollment efforts of the university, overseeing among the fastest improving graduation rates in the nation and the elimination of all achievement gaps based on students’ race, ethnicity or income level. Dr. Renick has testified on strategies for helping university students succeed before the United States Senate and has twice been invited to speak at the White House. His work has been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, and CNN and cited by President Obama. He was named one of 2016’s Most Innovative People in Higher Education by Washington Monthly, was the recipient of the 2015-16 Award for National Leadership in Student Success Innovation, and was awarded the 2018 McGraw Prize in Higher Education. He currently is principal investigator for a $9 million U.S. Department of Education grant to study the impact of predictive-analytics-based advisement on ten-thousand low-income and first-generation students nationally. A summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Renick holds his M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University.

Jack Watson (White House Chief of Staff to President Jimmy Carter)

Jack Watson

White House Chief of Staff to President Jimmy Carter

After graduating from Vanderbilt University and Harvard Law School and spending three years as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Jack Watson was ready for almost anything. He first met former President Jimmy Carter when he rode his motorcycle down to Plains, Georgia from Atlanta in 1966. Hitting it off immediately, Watson went on to be part of Carter’s administration while he was governor of Georgia, and during Carter’s presidential bid, he headed the Carter-Mondale Policy Planning Group. Following the election, Watson directed the transition team before playing many important roles in the Carter White House — including secretary to the cabinet, assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs, and the White House chief of staff. Since his time in the White House, Watson has worked as a corporate strategist, occasionally consulting with foregin leaders on various public policy and governmental issues.