The Value of Higher Education

June 02, 2023 - In its May 10 meeting, AGB’s Council of Foundation Leaders met with Lisa Foss, PhD, the executive director of the Council on Higher Education as a Strategic Asset (HESA), a newly forged coalition of national leaders hailing from higher education, …

Public skepticism about the value of higher education and restrictive policy decisions at the state and federal levels are fueled in part by the sector’s opaque business model, where the fundamental forces of supply and demand don’t always seem to …

Headlines show that, for many people, higher education isn’t measuring up. There is pressure to perform and better quantify results, but the demands vary: Colleges should produce more graduates; the workforce needs better workers; quality learning is the ultimate goal. At …