Presidential Opinion

Glenn C. Altschuler and David Wippman, President, Hamilton College write: As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to name his secretary of education, it seems like a good time to offer the new administration a higher education to do list. Admittedly, getting legislation through a highly partisan, closely divided Congress will be difficult, but the new secretary and president can — and should — use executive orders to eliminate harmful policies, initiate reforms, and change the conversation about higher education.

Laurie L. Patton, President, Middlebury College writes:  We are more dynamically placed: a counterintuitive but welcome result we bring into the post-COVID world.

Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University writes: Well before the pandemic struck, we could see the data. Too many students were taking on too much debt to attend our traditional residential campus, or they were not coming at all. Maybe worse were those students who attended, took on debt, but left without completing, joining the 36 million Americans with some credits but no credential. 

A Q&A with National University President David Andrews on how the pandemic will transform the business of higher education.

David Wippman, President, Hamilton College and Glenn C. Altschuler write: The department’s Orwellian reading of Eisgruber’s statement is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to flip the national dialogue on race, history and education.