Speaker Bios - The Council of Independent Colleges

Contact: Ellen Schweiger, Senior Producer for National Programming, C-SPAN, 400 North Capitol
Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20001; (202) 626-7965; eschweiger@c-span.org
Jeffrey Selingo is vice president and editorial director for the Chronicle of Higher Education. In August
2007, he was named editor of the Chronicle, a position he held for four years. Previously, he had been an
assistant managing editor and senior editor at the Chronicle, overseeing coverage of higher education
policy, campus leadership, fundraising, and surveys of presidents and trustees. Before that, he covered
state politics as a reporter. In his 12 years at the Chronicle, Selingo’s work has been honored with a
National Award for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, a Dateline Award from
the Society of Professional Journalists, and finalist status for a Livingston Award in national reporting.
Before working at the Chronicle, he was the environmental reporter for the Wilmington (NC) Star-News.
Selingo was a member of the staff that won a North Carolina Press Association Award for its coverage of
two major hurricanes in 1996 and was the recipient of the state’s top Associated Press writing award. He
also worked for the Ithaca Journal in New York, and as a recipient of the Pulliam Journalism Fellowship
he covered business technology for the Arizona Republic. Selingo received his bachelor’s degree in
journalism from Ithaca College and a master’s degree in government from the Johns Hopkins University.
He is writing a book to be released in summer 2013; the working title is College (Un)Bound: The Future
of Higher Education and What It Means for Students.
Contact: Jeffrey Selingo, Vice President and Editorial Director, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1255
23rd Street, NW, Seventh Floor, Washington, DC 20037; (202) 466-1075; C: (202) 997-3385;
jeff.selingo@chronicle.com
Mark Stencel is managing editor for digital news at National Public Radio (NPR), where he is
responsible for overseeing all content on NPR.org and other online platforms. Stencel previously worked
as the executive editor and deputy publisher at GOVERNING, a monthly magazine and website written
for leaders in state and local government and published by Congressional Quarterly (CQ). He served as a
managing editor at CQ, where he helped lead one of the largest news staffs on Capitol Hill, coordinating
daily coverage of Congress, online and in print. He began his career at the Washington Post as a
researcher and an assistant to syndicated columnist David S. Broder. After a stint as a science and
technology correspondent for the News & Observer in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, Stencel returned
to the Post in 1996 to help launch the company’s first website, PoliticsNow, an election-year multimedia
partnership involving ABC News, Newsweek, and National Journal. He then directed
Washingtonpost.com’s award-winning political coverage and later was a senior editor on the newspaper’s
breaking news desk, serving as a liaison between the Post’s print and online newsrooms. In addition to his
work as an editor, Stencel was a vice president at the Post Company’s online division,
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. He is the co-author of two books, Peep Show: Media and Politics
in an Age of Scandal, and On the Line: The New Road to the White House (written with CNN’s Larry
King). He continues writing about science and technology, including digital media trends, on his personal
blog, Assignment: Future.
Contact: Mark Stencel, Managing Editor, Digital News, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3753; (202) 513-2000/3546; mstencel@npr.org
Michael Stoner is president of mStoner, a firm he launched in 2001 with Rob Cima and Votaier Miran.
During his 30-year career as a communicator and consultant, Stoner has served more than 250 education
institutions (independent schools, colleges, universities, and education associations), nonprofit
organizations, and businesses on four continents. He is recognized as an expert on how institutions can
use the internet and the web to communicate effectively with their constituents and how they can engage
effectively using social media. A pioneer in e-communications, he published his first email newsletter in
the early 1990s and completed his first university website project in 1995. Stoner has provided strategic
consulting on developing institution-wide web strategies, led numerous website development projects,
and has earned an international reputation as an authority on integrating marketing, communications, and
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