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The Rant PodcastNavigating the Next Four Years with Ted MitchellSend us a textThe American higher education system stands at a crossroads, facing unprecedented challenges that threaten its very foundation. In this revealing conversation, Eloy Ortiz Oakley sits down with Ted Mitchell, President of the American Council on Education (ACE), to discuss how colleges and universities across the country are responding to these threats.Mitchell, whose organization represents over 1,700 diverse institutions, offers a compelling perspective on how higher education is uniting across traditional dividing lines. "Higher ed sticks together, especially in times of crisis," Mitchell explains, highlighting the solidarity forming among institutions from community...2025-06-2435 min
The Innovating Together PodcastInterview with Chancellor of the California Committee of Colleges Eloy OakleyChancellor of the California Committee of Colleges Eloy Oakley recently spent some time in November 2021 in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Department of Education to help with the BBB - Build Back Better vision of the current administration. He discussed the bureaucracy in the Department of Education, how his visit impacted his leadership style, and policy perspectives.
Oakley was most surprised by the many layers of red tape and how big the bureaucracy is in D.C. when compared to California’s large bureaucracy. He expressed that although higher education and getting people back to wo...2021-12-1326 min