The measures lay out scholarship programs which would require students, in exchange for financial help, to commit to working in one of those fields in Pennsylvania after graduation.
Today, most large buildings are made of steel and concrete. But at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, a new 12,000-square-foot dorm was built almost entirely of wood.
Columbia's enrollment is down 36% from a decade ago, and the decline is expected to continue as the school has been forced to combine academic departments and consider cutting classes in artistic disciplines for which the school is known.
By following specific and proven strategies, the nation's colleges and universities can reassure nervous students, families and policymakers and build pathways to completion of credentials of value that can lift up individuals and communities.
There has been a flaring of tension on major U.S. college campuses in recent days, weeks after police moved to break up protests across the country, from New York to California, arresting more than 2,000 people.
At Antioch, we are doing our part to deliver the core promise of American higher education. Members of Congress and the Department of Education must return the favor.
"We must defend the principles that caused us to enter leadership in the first place," the AAC&U president says. "It's not easy, and it might be that you need to resign, but we must defend this."
Strong Integration is about so much more than governance and oversight. It's ecosystem-wide adaptive change—including leadership structures, academics and curriculum and co-curriculum.
Colleges seeking to recruit adults taking another shot at earning a credential may have the best luck with one specific demographic, which earns credentials at nearly twice the rate of their peers.
