
She is also Adjunct Fellow at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity where she writes on the issue of higher education endowment spending. In September 2007, Ms. Munson testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the issue of college and university endowment hoarding and has advised Senate staff regarding potential policy remedies in this area.
Ms. Munson led the first United States government delegation to Afghanistan in 2005 to deal with issues of cultural reconstruction. In 2004, she represented the United States at UNESCO meetings in Australia and Japan where she helped to negotiate guidelines for cross-border higher education. In 1998 and 1999 Ms. Munson provided expert testimony on higher education remediation programs to the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York and the Mayor’s Advisory Task Force on CUNY Reform.
Ms. Munson is the author of Exhibitionism: Art in an Era of Intolerance (Ivan R. Dee, 2000) and has written on contemporary cultural and educational issues for numerous national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Inside Higher Education. She has appeared on CNN, FoxNews, CNBC, C-SPAN, and NPR, and speaks to scholarly and public audiences. Ms. Munson earned a bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University.
CAMPAIGN FILE: Sen. John McCain recalls his English teacher: “There was one friendship that enriched my life at Episcopal High School beyond measure... Mr. Ravenel was head of the English Department... He loved English literature, and taught us to love it as well... He made us appreciate how profound were the emotions that animated the characters in Shakespeare's tragedies. MacBeth and Hamlet in his care were as compelling to boys as they were to the most learned scholar.” (cont'd)
CAMPAIGN FILE: Sen. Barack Obama said “One of the problems with No Child Left Behind is that it has become so reliant on a standardized test model that—first of all—subjects like history and social studies have gotten pushed aside. Arts and music time is no longer there. So the child is not having the well-rounded educational experience I benefited from and most in my generation benefited from.” (cont'd)