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'One Voice' for Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed

January 31, 2011

Eduardo M. Ochoa, assistant U.S. secretary of education for postsecondary education, has been meeting with higher education associations to encourage them to find a way to speak with "one voice" and reshape public understanding of the role of colleges. He discussed this effort Friday in an address at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. In an interview after the talk, Ochoa said that colleges have not done a good job of communicating their "shared values and shared goals ... whether an AAU institution or a community college."

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