Six college groups acknowledge higher ed’s “challenges” and embrace need for change

Inside Higher Ed: Beyond playing defense
As concerns about and criticism of American higher education have mounted in a series of reports in recent years, college leaders, fairly or not, have been portrayed as unresponsive if not outright obstructionist. That impression has been reinforced in the last few months by the forceful (and occasionally shrill) objections voiced by private college leaders about the work of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, and the fact that higher education’s lead representative on the panel, David Ward of the American Council on Education, was alone among its 19 members in declining to sign the report.

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