ACE's annual meeting Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/aces-annual-meeting/ A Blog by ACE Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:19:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png ACE's annual meeting Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/aces-annual-meeting/ 32 32 Video: Richard Haass and Lawrence Bacow Discuss Global Affairs and Higher Education at ACE2019 https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/04/03/video-richard-haass-and-lawrence-bacow-discuss-global-affairs-and-higher-education/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:19:18 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14803 Former U.S. diplomat Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow discussed global affairs that are likely to impact higher education during ACE2019’s Opening Luncheon Plenary.

The post Video: Richard Haass and Lawrence Bacow Discuss Global Affairs and Higher Education at ACE2019 appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> Video: Catharine Bond Hill​ Delivers 2019 Atwell Plenary Address https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/04/03/video-catharine-bond-hill-delivers-2019-atwell-plenary-address/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:11:12 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14798 Catharine “Cappy” Bond Hill, president emerita of Vassar College (NY) and managing director at ITHAKA S&R delivers the Robert H. Atwell Plenary address at ACE2019. Hill is an economist who has focused on higher education affordability and access and she addressed these topics, as well as the value of higher education, in her speech.

The post Video: Catharine Bond Hill​ Delivers 2019 Atwell Plenary Address appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> Video: Students Take the Stage at ACE2019 https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/04/01/video-students-take-stage-ace2019/ Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:56:39 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14783 During the ACE2019 closing plenary, a student panel moderated by John B. King Jr. discussed a “human-centered” approach to designing public policy and institutional practice from the bottom up to enhance student outcomes. The plenary was titled “Real Students, Real Change: How Students’ Lives Can Transform Higher Education.” Two of the students on that panel also received the 2018 ACE Students of ...

The post Video: Students Take the Stage at ACE2019 appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> Video: Tara Westover and Nick Anderson on the Transformative Power of Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/27/tara-westover-nick-anderson-transformative-power-education/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:40:28 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14773 Nick Anderson of The Washington Post interviewed author Tara Westover about her best-selling memoir Educated and the transformative power of education during the ACE2019 Monday Luncheon Plenary. The daughter of survivalist, fundamentalist parents, Westover grew up in Idaho and didn’t set foot in a classroom for the first time until age 17. Calling it a “book that testifies to an irrepressible thirst to learn,” The New York Times named Educated one ...

The post Video: Tara Westover and Nick Anderson on the Transformative Power of Education appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> ACE2019: Global Challenges to Civic Engagement https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/13/ace2019-global-challenges-civic-engagement/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:37:52 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14694 With civil discourse seemingly deteriorating on campuses and a public that is increasingly questioning the value of higher education, higher education leaders now more than ever are faced with the challenge of re-affirming the public mission of higher education. “We do see that there is an opportunity here to reignite that simple mission to think more broadly and strengthen democratic world ...

The post ACE2019: Global Challenges to Civic Engagement appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> ACE2019: Creating, Calculating, and Communicating the Value of Higher Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/13/ace2019-creating-calculating-communicating-value-higher-education/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:18:34 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14592 “When I think about the value of higher ed, two questions come to mind. If I send my daughter or son to college, or I go myself at a cost to my family or me, will I learn something of genuine value? Second, will I finish? Will I get a credential that means I’ve earned something of genuine value?” Kevin Reilly, ...

The post ACE2019: Creating, Calculating, and Communicating the Value of Higher Education appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> ACE2019: Assessing Challenges to the Value of Higher Education From a Journalist’s Perspective https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/13/assessing-challenges-value-higher-education-journalist-perspective/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:05:43 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14595 There hasn’t been a hotter topic in higher education circles over the past several years than whether the public no longer believes that a college education is worth the cost—or at least as a good a value as in years past—and if so, why? And what can be done to demonstrate to Americans that by any standard, the average person with ...

The post ACE2019: Assessing Challenges to the Value of Higher Education From a Journalist’s Perspective appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> ACE2019: Faculty Impact on Career Readiness https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/13/impactful-classes-rewarding-careers-faculty-impact-career-readiness/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:11:38 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14590 Representatives from Strada Education Network, the Career Leadership Collective, and the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) joined forces to facilitate the session “From Impactful Classes to Rewarding Careers: The Unique Influence of Faculty on Students’ Career Readiness and Satisfaction” to a packed room of highly engaged attendees at ACE2019. The session focused on how colleges and universities can integrate ...

The post ACE2019: Faculty Impact on Career Readiness appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> Georgia State University President Wins 2019 TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/12/georgia-state-university-president-wins-2019-tiaa-institute-hesburgh-award/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:00:33 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14658 The TIAA Institute announced this week that Georgia State University President Mark Becker is the recipient of the 2019 Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education. The award recognizes a college or university president or chancellor who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities. During Becker’s 10-year tenure as president, Georgia State has become nationally recognized as one of the country’s most ...

The post Georgia State University President Wins 2019 TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> ACE2019: Designing Strategies to Support the Mental Health of Students https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/10/ace2019-designing-strategies-support-mental-health-students/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 03:48:07 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14554 One out of five students on our campus have a mental health condition. And at some point in the past year, three out of five students felt overwhelming anxiety, two out of five felt too depressed to function, one out of three binge drank regularly, one out of 10 had serious thoughts of suicide, one out of 50 attempted suicide, and ...

The post ACE2019: Designing Strategies to Support the Mental Health of Students appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> President and CEO of Ms. Foundation Addresses ACE Women’s Leadership Dinner https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/10/president-ceo-ms-foundation-addresses-ace-womens-leadership-dinner/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:01:20 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14528 Teresa C. Younger addressed a crowd of 220 higher education leaders at the ACE2019 Women’s Leadership Dinner Saturday night, stressing the importance of “being the kind of woman.” “Be the kind of woman who when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the devil says, ‘Oh shit, she’s up,’” she said to laughs and applause from the audience gathered in ...

The post President and CEO of Ms. Foundation Addresses ACE Women’s Leadership Dinner appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]> ACE at 100: Commemoration Through Art https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/03/23/ace-100-commemoration-art/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:27:53 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=12148 By Alyssa Huntley In 1993, ACE approached Jacob Lawrence to use his work, University, to commemorate our 75th anniversary. To continue this tradition of recognizing historic milestones through art, ACE commissioned a sculpture last year in honor of our 100th anniversary, from artist Therman Statom. Statom works primarily in glass out of his studio in Omaha, Nebraska, and has deep roots ...

The post ACE at 100: Commemoration Through Art appeared first on Higher Education Today.

]]>