Michigan State University hosts the first Presidential Speaker Series as President Kevin M. Guskiewicz moderates a discussion with Richard Burr, principal policy adviser at DLA Piper and former U.S. senator from North Carolina, Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education and former U.S. under secretary of education, and Margaret Spellings, president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center and former U.S. secretary of education, at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts on Michigan State University’s campus in East Lansing, Mich., on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.