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Politicians Praise and Pressure Colleges
New Education Secretary, Arne Duncan offers praise and warning that change is needed to College Presidents.
The new Secretary of Education
Click here to read the entire article from Inside Higher EdDuncan, who is new both to higher education and to Washington, was full of praise for colleges in his speech, which was televised by C-Span. He acknowledged that there were problems — low graduation rates, prices rising out of reach of many Americans, too many inadequate teachers being turned out by colleges of education — but he raised those issues in the context of ensuring that the country continues to have “the greatest higher education system in the world.”
Our Question:
How can institutions of higher education work with the current administration to produce positive and sustainable change in higher education?
