Awards and Honors:

• Sloan Consortium -2013: The Frank Mayadas Leadership Award, http://sloanconsortium.org/sloan-c-awards/2013

• The Theodore Hesburgh Award  -1995

• The Boeing Award  -1995, 

• The Pew Charitable Trust Prize  -1996 . 

• Army -2001: Outstanding Civilian Service Medal by the United States Army for service to the Army Education program.

• A Fellow of American Physical Society -named in 1998,

• Named a Fellow of the National Online Consortium as covered in Bloomberg News.  August 4, 2015 The OLC Press release is here.

• National officer of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and the American Assn. of Physics Teachers (AAPT). 

• Distinguished Service Citation  -1995, Am. Association of Physics Teachers

• National Academy of Science and National Research Council study committees and task forces: service as either a member or chair of several committees (Research on Physics Ed)

• ECS: He was appointed in 2005, by Governor Mitt Romney, as a Massachusetts Commissioner to the Education Commission of the States and re-appointed by Governor Deval Patrick.

• FBI -2011:  Exceptional Service in the Public Interest

• Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council: Workforce Leader of the Year -2010

• Massachusetts All Star 2005: Mass High Tech Magazine  2005

• Good Scout Award 2010 by the Knox Trail Council of the Boy Scouts of America; Nov. 2010

• Massachusetts Network Communication Council  2005: "Long term contributions to the industry"

Videos Online:

UMass Medical School  Tribute 2011

Jack Wilson on Entrepreneurship in Mass High Tech Magazine

"The Future I Imagined"

NECN: On the Times of London Rankings  short teaser

NECN: On the Times of London and UMass Reputation

NECN:  UMass Law

WGBH:  On Leaving UMass and becoming interim President of the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate

"On Stewardship"  at the 2010 UMass Lowell Commencement

Boston Venture Center Opening with Keith Motley

NECN:  Globe Reports: "I have accomplished what I set out to do."

NECN:  UMass and Its Role in the Economy

NECN: Public Universities and the Recession, Edward M Kennedy Institute

NECN:  Stimulus Funding Allows Fee Rebate

"Getting Into and Paying for College" hosted by WBZ

"What is Stem Education" at UMass Lowell

Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Groundbreaking

Topping Off the Albert Sherman Center at UMass Medical School

The University of Massachusetts: Truly World Class

Recent Presentations:

• Jack Wilson: “Lean Launch, Business Models & Technological Entrepreneurship;"  BioTechEast Workshop; UMass Lowell, June 6, 2019

• UMass Lowell Commencement Speech    May 18, 2019  Jack M. Wilson

• "Disrupting the Future of Higher Education;" State University System of Florida Board of Governors Task Force on Strategic Planning for Online Education; Tampa, FL; June 16, 2015.

• "Massachusetts’ profile as an innovator could reach new levels;" Boston Globe Jan. 26, 2015; -Op-ed on cyber-security, big data, and how to harness the incredible academic and private sector resources here to solve an important problem and bolster our research based economy.  

• "Investing in the talent and innovation future of Mass" Op-Ed co-authored with Bill Guenther, CEO of Mass Insight; Boston Business Journal; March 20, 2015.

• "Evolving Learner Centered Environments;" Next Generation Learning Spaces Conference Nashville, Tennessee February 24, 2015.

• Advanced Cyber Security Center-Research Consortium;" ACSC; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Boston MA; November 5, 2014.

• "The Dreaded and Most Important Talk: Financials;" -Everyone wants universities to change, but exactly how is not so clear;  New Directions in Online Learning San Diego, California October 30, 2014.

• "University-Industry-Government Research Context," MassInsight, Conference on Innovation Partnership Networks. Boston, MA, 19 June 2014.

• "On Entrepreneurship Education -Insights," University of Massachusetts, Conference on Entrepreneurship Education, Boston, MA June 16, 2014

• "Universities in a Time of Change," Distinguished Lecture Series, Univ. of Central Florida, January 30, 2014.

• "Will Physics Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way?"  Univ. of Central Florida Physics Department Colloquium, January 31, 2014.

• Radical Change in Higher Education: Will Physics lead, follow, or get out of the way? APS/AAPT Conference on Distance Education and Online Learning; College Park, MD June 1, 2013  <abstract>  <talk>

• The Myth of MOOCs  (See also my comments on the MIT-Harvard report on edX)

• Innovations in eLearning: MOOCs and Beyond;  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Annual Colloquium on Teaching and Learning; Troy, NY April 19, 2013

• University Professional and Continuing Education Assn.; "High Expectations-No Money: Universities WILL Change the World;"  Boston, MA; April 4, 2013

• U.S. Dept. Of Education FIPSE Directors Meeting:   "Will FIPSE Lead the Next (R)Evolution?"  Washington, DC; March 26, 2013

• The University of Pennsylvania Higher Education Leadership Conference: Innovation in an Era of Disruptive Change.

• The Association of American Colleges and Universities, Atlanta GA: The Digital Revolution... or Evolution: How Universities are Changing.

• Sloan-C Conference, Orlando FL, Online Education: Evolution or Revolution
          Press:  Inside Higher Ed;    Chronicle of Higher Education

• White House Conference on the Innovative University: , White House, Wash. DC, "Higher Education Innovation, and Entrepreneurship In Focus"

• Am. Society for Engineering Education Deans Conference, Washington, DC Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
  New York State Board of Regents Committee: Online Learning-A Strategic Tool

• New England-Canada Business Council: Encouraging Innovation/Growing Partnerships; 

•  Research Universities and Economic Development-A National Perspective

• The LearnLinc Story (doc)   The LearnLinc Story (ppt)