“SOCIAL COMPACT” FOR HIGHER EDUCATION EXPLORED AT DC CONFERENCE
The 87th annual conference of the American Council on Education (ACE), held this week in Washington, DC, was the scene for an interesting three days of debate on the state of the "social compact" for higher education.As an attendee at the conference, I had a chance to interact with numerous college presidents, public policymakers, vendors to the university market and many others with an interest in the important questions of how this compact on higher education will fare in the coming years of our still-young century.