Top Public Policy Issues for Higher Education

This biennial publication is designed to help higher education governing boards understand the most pressing federal and state public policy issues affecting higher education. Today’s policy landscape is shaped by a confluence of powerful, even disruptive trends—including but not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic, declining government funding, piecemeal approaches to higher education policymaking, extreme partisan polarization, and debates over college affordability. Top Public Policy Issues for Higher Education 2021–2022 captures policy expert’s best thinking on these issues and provides board members and campus leaders with invaluable guidance on public policy decisions most likely to affect higher education over the next two years.