The Higher Education Lobby Comes to UW-Madison
This morning, the UW System Board of Regents heard from a prominent speaker: Molly Corbett Broad , President of the American Council of Education. Then, around noon, she joined a group on the UW-Madison campus to share a similar talk , but this time with an audience of faculty, staff, and students. Both talks focused on the theme of "higher education at a crossroads." I had the honor of introducing President Broad to the second audience, in my role as Senior Scholar at the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education . I also moderated the discussion portion of the conversation. As I'm grateful to Broad for joining us, I feel it's among the most respectful acts to fully engage with her comments and offer my thoughts and questions here. Simply receiving information from a talk without vigorously considering and debating the ideas is inconsistent with the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea. So, with that in mind, here are my thoughts. First, let'...