Inside Higher Ed: What should the US Commission on higher education do?
On Monday, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced the creation of a national Commission on the Future of Higher Education. She said the panel would help develop a “comprehensive national strategy for postsecondary education,” exploring such issues as access, affordability, and higher education’s role in reversing America’s declining competitiveness in the world economy.
Like most such commissions, this one is dominated by leaders and policy makers, with relatively little representation from rank and file professors and college staff members or from students who represent the front line consumers of higher education.
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