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Campus ICU: NAS Urges Tying Pandemic Aid to Renewal of Higher Ed’s Commitment to the Common Good
COVID-19 has upended every sector of the American economy, further degraded an already […]
Campus leaders across the United States are scrambling to develop strategies to cope with the brutal economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
ACTA’s Vice President of Academic Affairs, Jonathan Pidluzny, joined a webinar hosted by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to examine how higher education leaders can manage the crisis so that the institutions they lead not only survive but emerge stronger and leaner. The wide-ranging discussion also explored how public officials should respond, including what kind of conditions Congress should attach to any additional emergency funding for colleges and universities.
More information on the webinar and NAS’s recent report Critical Care: Policy Recommendations to Restore American Higher Education after the 2020 Coronavirus Shutdown can be found here.
COVID-19 has upended every sector of the American economy, further degraded an already […]
The spread of COVID-19 and the resulting economic fallout have placed unprecedented financial strain on the higher education system. Enrollment is in flux, state higher education budgets are under increased pressure, and institutions face ballooning costs associated with virus management. While emergency federal funding has helped to fill some of the gap, the outlook for […]
For acclaimed sports journalist Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post, the Covid-19 pandemic has blown the lid off excessive spending in college athletics and brought higher education to a profound reckoning point. She sat down with ACTA’s Doug Sprei and Armand Alacbay for a probing conversation a few days after publication of her scathing article, College sports embraced […]
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