Higher Education Builds America
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Our nation faces numerous challenges, such as growing economic and military competition abroad and a rapidly evolving economy that requires new ways of learning and working. The key to unlocking America’s potential lies in strengthening and utilizing our world-leading colleges and universities. This is because of one simple truth: Higher education builds America.
However, to make effective change at the local and national level, we need your help. Join ACE in this campaign by becoming a member, sharing the #higheredbuildsamerica message, or attending the ACE Experience 2025 and have change-inducing conversations in person.
Become an ACE Member
Building the future of America is impossible without our nation’s higher education institutions. By joining ACE you can ensure you’re on the front lines of change and innovation in higher ed.
Register for ACEx2025
The ACE Experience (ACEx) offers a unique opportunity to examine higher education’s role in society now and in the future alongside visionary leaders from diverse fields. Designed for presidents, ACEx focuses on critical national and international issues impacting higher education.
Help Us Build
Show America how you build higher education and join ACE on social media using our hashtag #higheredbuildsamerica. Download our toolkit of social images and facts to help create and share your story.
Open Letter to President-elect Trump
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ACE President Ted Mitchell urges the incoming administration to recognize the critical role America’s colleges and universities can play in tackling the nation’s most pressing challenges.
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ACE leads the higher education community to advance the fundamental principles of higher education. These principles emphasize access and success; the pursuit of knowledge; and the enrichment of the civic, democratic, and economic vibrancy of the United States.
ACE 2025 Legislative and Regulatory Agenda
ACE's division of Government Relations and National Engagement's federal legislative and regulatory agenda for FY 2025 focuses on four key areas.
September 30, 2024
SAA Urges Administration to Boost Student Aid in FY 2026
The Student Aid Alliance is asking the administration to provide robust increases for federal student aid in its FY 2026 budget proposal.
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In this episode of dotEDU Live, Jon Fansmith and Sarah Spreitzer are joined by a full team of ACE experts—Steven Bloom, Peter McDonough, and Emmanual Guillory—to take a deeper look at what the post-election landscape looks like for higher education policy.
(Aired December 12, 2024)
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In response to an increasingly complicated environment for higher education, ACE's Office on National Engagement developed a webinar series aimed at strengthening critical engagement between higher education and its state governments, communities, and residents. Each webinar brings together a panel of experts to explore ways that higher education institutions build America by contributing in their communities and discuss why fostering local connections is critical to the future of postsecondary education.
April 8, 2024
Advancing Higher Education in Our States: The Case for Engagement
This is the first webinar in the Advancing Higher Education in Our States series, which is designed to strengthen engagement between higher education and its community. Local connections are critical to the future of postsecondary education.
May 22, 2024
Growing Business Leaders and Societal Problem-Solvers
This is the second webinar in the Advancing Higher Education in Our States series. A panel will discuss the state of business education; state-based policy challenges to diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education; and more.
In The NewsACE's Nick Anderson spoke with Marjorie Malpiede of LearningWell on working with the incoming administration and why "higher education isn’t going anywhere."
Read the full conversation between Nick Anderson and Sara Weissman of Inside Higher Ed about why ACE ran a full-page open letter in The New York Times to make this point: Higher education builds America.
Higher Education & National Affairs
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