Topic: value of higher education
Seize the Moment: Innovation Isn’t the Problem. Alignment Is.
ACE’s Michele Spires explains why many promising higher education innovations stall—not because they don’t work, but because they rarely connect across institutions, employers, and learners.
Seize the Moment: Higher Ed Must Improve, Innovate, and Inspire
In a call to action drawn from his remarks at ACE’s recent annual meeting, Ted Mitchell argues that higher education must respond to political attacks not with retreat, but with improvement, innovation, and inspiration.
Renewing the Social Contract for Higher Education
With public confidence in colleges at a crossroads, Ted Mitchell and Timothy Knowles call for a new social contract centered on student success—and offer the Carnegie-ACE classification as a path forward.
Dear President-elect Trump: Higher Education Builds America
ACE President Ted Mitchell urges the incoming administration to recognize the critical role America’s colleges and universities can play in tackling the nation’s most pressing challenges.
Why Higher Education Is Still Our Country’s Greatest Defense
Given all the changes in the past century, how can the higher education community leverage its strengths to do an even better job of contributing to national security? Michele Spires discusses how workforce development transcends mere job training—and why it’s so crucial now.
