We must embrace all sectors of higher education, recognizing that each one serves a different and important demographic with appropriate programs of study, learning models, student services and student outcomes.
The answer, I suspect, is that even those least interested in providing funding for higher education recognize on some level that access to that education for large segments of our population is critical to the economic and civic health of our country.
When determining whether a degree is recognized, UNICEF is guided by the International Association of Universities' (IAU) listing of higher education institutions recognized or otherwise approved by competent authorities in participating countries.
UNICEF's degree accreditation is guided by the International Association of Universities' (IAU) listing of higher education institutions recognized or otherwise approved by competent authorities in participating countries.
"American higher education is recognizing that community colleges are critical partners in fueling the scientific enterprise, not merely way stations until students get to the 4-year institutions," says education policy analyst Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation for Education in Indianapolis, Indiana.
To ensure that all workers have the skills to succeed in the workplace, our nation's leaders, as well as leaders of our higher education institutions, recognize the importance of promoting diverse learning environments not for the sake of diversity itself but precisely because of the economic (and educational) benefits that flow from learning that takes place in a diverse setting.
Our higher education sector recognizes that young people learn in a wide variety of ways.
But science, mathematics, and engineering faculty and academic leaders in higher education must recognize their roles in preparing future teachers as well as future researchers.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the majority, said it was constitutionally permissible for public institutions of higher education to require recognized student groups to accept all students who wished to participate in them.
