value of higher education Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/value-of-higher-education/ A Blog by ACE Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:38:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png value of higher education Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/value-of-higher-education/ 32 32 Why Climate Action Is in Higher Education’s Best Interest https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/11/10/why-climate-action-is-in-higher-educations-best-interest/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:52:06 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17869 The University of Colorado Boulder is proud to be cohosting the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with the United Nations Human Rights Office on campus December 1–4. This landmark summit is an opportunity for worldwide participants to learn more about climate change through the lens of human rights from some of the world’s foremost experts. In the leadup to ...

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]]> Let’s Educate More and Better Leaders—The World Needs Them https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/04/27/lets-educate-more-and-better-leaders-the-world-needs-them/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:46:04 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17792 Leadership is a fascinating phenomenon: it seems rare even when there is a plentitude of it. After a nearly 50-year career in higher education, decades on corporate and nonprofit boards, and years of teaching an undergraduate course on leadership, I have concluded that we need more and better leaders and leadership studies should be an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum. ...

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]]> Meeting Gen Z: Avoiding the Demographic Cliff and Preparing for Their Future https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/04/15/meeting-gen-z-avoiding-the-demographic-cliff-and-preparing-for-their-future/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:06:10 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17784 By Hilary L. Link Few higher education administrators have not read or heard of Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, the landmark bestseller by economist Nathan D. Grawe. In it, Grawe predicts that many of the nation’s colleges and universities will face declining student enrollment rates in about five years, a reality that will require a thoughtful, strategic approach to ...

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]]> Congress Lifted the Pell Grant Ban for Incarcerated People. What Now? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/04/22/congress-lifted-pell-grant-ban-incarcerated-people-now/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:06:49 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17468 By Ruth Delaney and Allan Wachendorfer In December 2020, Congress lifted a 26-year ban on Pell Grants for people in prison. The change means that incarcerated people, who are disproportionately Black and brown, can now benefit from the monumental expansion of access to the transformative experience of education. Postsecondary education in prison is shown to have a positive impact on incarcerated ...

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]]> Small Colleges Are Essential for U.S. Economic, Social Recovery https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/09/11/small-colleges-essential-u-s-economic-social-recovery/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:57:04 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16910 By Mary B. Marcy. Dr. Marcy is president of Dominican University of California, one of two recipients of the 2020 ACE/Fidelity Investments Award for Institutional Transformation. The award was created to recognize institutions that have responded to higher education challenges. The media, as well as most of our campuses and boards, are consumed right now with the immediate and significant challenge ...

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]]> Are More Colleges Closing? (Spoiler Alert: Probably Not) https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/09/23/colleges-closing-spoiler-alert-probably-not/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:38:58 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15669 By Phil Muehlenbeck and Karina Pineda With media outlets reporting almost daily on the challenges facing American colleges and universities, often focusing on the closures of small institutions, primarily private nonprofit colleges, you might get the impression that higher education institutions are an endangered species. But to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of their demise have been greatly exaggerated. There is no ...

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]]> A Dream Pursued, A Dream Fulfilled: How a College Degree Can Transform Lives https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/04/29/dream-pursued-dream-fulfilled-college-degree-can-transform-lives/ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:28:35 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14937 By Novlette White and Ted Mitchell As ACE joins in the celebration of College Signing Day on May 1, we would like to share the postsecondary journeys of a mother and daughter that exemplify the benefits of earning a college degree. Bobbie Jo Williams was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where she graduated from high school in 1955. Although both ...

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]]> Higher Education for the Nation’s Future https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/06/20/higher-education-nations-future/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:45:53 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=13183 ACE President Ted Mitchell introduces the Council’s new Strategic Framework, which will underpin the organization for the next three years and help chart a successful course for the future of higher education. I had a lot of jobs in higher education before I took the helm of ACE last September. I proudly served as president of Occidental College, a federal policy ...

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]]> Better Together: Higher Education and the Federal Government Explore Evidence for the Value of College Degrees https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/06/19/better-together-higher-education-federal-government-explore-evidence-value-college-degrees/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:43:49 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=13202 By Stephanie Huie Policymakers, media, and a strong consumer advocacy movement continue to ask, “Is higher education really worth the cost?” A February 2018 Gallup poll, “Words Used to Describe ‘Higher Ed’ Make a Difference,” found that only 36 percent of Americans have a “great deal of confidence in higher education.” A 2017 report by the Pew Research Center—Sharp Partisan Divisions ...

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]]> Claiming Our Story: The Importance of Higher Education to Transform Lives and Society https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/03/09/claiming-story-importance-higher-education-transform-lives-society/ Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:34:54 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=11838 By Sue Cunningham To my regret, I am long past the point in life when authority figures are above question. On a 24-hour basis, we are confronted by conflicting opinions—typically voiced in a loud and combative fashion—about the challenges our world faces, including health, the economy, the environment, social injustice, violence, and intolerance. And recent public opinion research indicates that the ...

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