Join three current Vice Presidents for Advancement and a former VP for Advancement in a thought exercise on the future of higher education philanthropy. Leave behind the daily news cycle and your institution's temporary challenges and help create the vision and shape the future for your successor and their successors. Some of the long-term issues to be addressed are:

- What will the Advancement team of 2040 look like, and what skills will be most important?

- Which of today's challenges are more permanent and which are temporary?

- How will we address the narrowing gift pyramid and how will staffing and resource decisions be affected?

- How should we think strategically about gifts at all levels?

- How can Advancement help our institutions improve public trust in higher education and build public and private support for our return on investment?

- In an era of increasing numbers of college closures, how can we help our institutions remain relevant to the marketplace?

- There are colleges consolidating across the country. How do we work with donors from separate institutions reforming into one?

- In an era of increasingly remote and hybrid student and alumni experiences, what will the campus experience be, and how will colleges foster a sense of place and purpose?