PETER LAIPSON, Ph.D.

Consultant

Areas of Expertise: Partnerships and affiliations; higher education-secondary education collaborations (including early college and dual enrollment); accreditation; competency-based educational models.

Peter Laipson brings to HCS over twenty-five years of experience in secondary and higher education. A former teacher, department head, and Dean of Faculty at Concord Academy, an independent secondary school, Peter served from 2011 to 2015 as the Provost of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, the nation’s only four-year residential early college. Starting in 2016, he helped to develop and operate High Meadows Graduate School of Teaching and Learning, a competency-based teacher education program founded by the Woodrow Wilson National Teaching Foundation in collaboration with MIT. Peter served as the Graduate School’s founding Chief Academic Officer and helped it achieve degree-granting status from the state of Massachusetts. He also was instrumental in facilitating the School’s closure in 2023 and transferring its intellectual property to the University of Kansas.

Peter has experience with three higher education institutions in western Kansas that were affiliated in July 2024. As the Director of Strategic Affiliation, Peter manages the operational integration of the three partners and new initiatives the affiliation made possible.

Peter also serves as a Senior Fellow at Mastery Transcript Consortium, an ETS company that creates competency-based learning records.

Peter received a B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.