Education

Almost everyone has an opinion about student loan forgiveness. But it's often more complicated than many think. Jon Fansmith and Terry Hartle look at what might happen in the coming months.

​Applications are open for the 2023-24 cohort of the ACE Fellows Program, the nation's premier higher education leadership development program that has served more than 2,000 higher education leaders over more than 50 years.

Terry W. Hartle, ACE’s senior vice president for Government Relations and Public Affairs, has announced that he will retire at the end of 2022, after nearly three decades of matchless service to ACE and the entire higher education community.

Despite the increasingly difficult voting processes in a number of states in the wake of the 2020 election, students are voting in numbers like never before.

​Members of a technical review panel and an institutional roundtable are kicking off their work providing expert input for the next incarnation of the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education, which will include a new classification sy

Register for the “Rethinking Accountability in Shared Equity Leadership” webinar on Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. ET to hear from leading scholars and practitioners who will share insights from the report "Shared Responsibility Means Shared Accountability."

Justin Draeger, president and CEO of the NASFAA, helps break down what the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan means for borrowers, institutions, parents, and the higher ed community as a whole.

​This fall, ACE is leading six learning circles, through which senior higher education leaders gather weekly for six weeks to help each other drive their work forward on a critical topic, and there is still time to register.

About 70 people across 12 higher education institutions and ACE gathered Sept. 8 in Washington, D.C. and on Zoom to officially launch the 20th ACE Internationalization Lab cohort

The groups thank the department for its efforts to provide greater flexibility and urge additional clarity and flexibility to help colleges and universities fulfill the promise of the law.

Murthy encouraged higher education leaders and policymakers to increase support and resources for mental health at an event hosted by ACE in Washington, D.C. last month.

The student loan repayment pause has made data measuring the share of borrowers who default on their debts nearly meaningless. Federal policymakers and institutions need new ways to measure how well borrowers are prepared for success in the labor market.

The Biden administration last week released the final version of regulations aiming to strengthen the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

We applaud this action by the Biden administration to preserve and fortify the existing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

President Biden’s decision to cancel student loan debt for millions of borrowers is the right move at the right time, but to avoid forcing current and future students into the same debt morass, we must modernize the federal student loan program.

​Twelve colleges and universities will participate in the 2022-2024 ACE Internationalization Laboratory cohort as part of the Lab's milestone 20th anniversary cohort.

As colleges and universities gear up for the fall semester, ACE is offering three online, multi-part workshops for senior leaders this September.

With the fall semester about to begin, the Biden administration is getting the word out to campuses on two key topics: Preparing for the latest phase of COVID-19 and the new challenge of monkeypox, and taking advantage of changes to PSLF ahead of Oct. 31.

ACE and 23 other higher ed groups submitted comments to the Education Department on draft rules to enhance protections for defrauded borrowers, improve Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make other revisions to student loan discharge regulations.

President Biden yesterday signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act, a $280 billion bipartisan bill to boost domestic high-tech manufacturing and increase funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other research agencies.

A group of college presidents met with Vice President Kamala Harris Aug. 8 at the White House to discuss the consequences for colleges and students of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

The Senate has approved the Ensuring the Best Schools for Veterans Act of 2022 (S. 4458), an important piece of legislation that means veterans can continue to enroll in quality higher education programs of their choosing.

The outcome of these cases will have a profound and direct impact on our nation’s colleges and universities, their students, and, ultimately, this country’s global competitiveness.

The associations are calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reject calls for a so-called “race-neutral” regime made in lawsuits filed by the activist group Students for Fair Admissions challenging the admissions processes of Harvard and UNC.

Colleges and universities that want recognition for their efforts at institutionalizing community engagement or on the development and understanding of leadership as a public good can apply now to be included in the next Carnegie Elective Classifications.

Mamie Voight, president and CEO of the Institution for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), joins the podcast and talks with Jon Fansmith and Sarah Spreitzer about IHEP’s work.

ACE recently launched a series of learning circles, a unique program in which senior higher education leaders gather weekly for six weeks to engage in social learning on a critical topic.

The House has passed two bills that seek to address the growing mental health crisis on college campuses: the Enhancing Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Through Campus Planning Act and the Campus Prevention and Recovery Services for Students Act.

The event was part of ACE’s ongoing Women’s Leadership Speaker series and featured Gayle Hutchinson, Linda A. Livingstone, Fayneese S. Miller, and moderator Luoluo Hong.

The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs heard testimony June 13 on a range of pending legislation to help veterans, primarily bills to fine-tune and address unintended consequences of laws already on the books.