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Established in 1918, the American Council on Education (ACE) [2] is a United States organization comprising over 1,800 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher education-related associations, organizations, and corporations. ACE is being known as the "umbrella" higher education association in the United States.
On July 21, 2022, Mason announced that the 2022–2033 academic year would be his final year as president and that he would be stepping down at the end of his contract on June 30, 2023. Mason serves on the boards of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the President's Board of Advisors (PBA) on HBCUs of the White House Initiative on ...
An initiative focused on African higher education was a collaborative effort linking USAID, HED, the Africa-U.S. Initiative. After launching a request for application in late 2008, HED received more than 250 application from various U.S. higher education institutions for 20 planning grants of $50,000 each.
The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System. (Jossey-Bass, 1998) Delbanco, Andrew. College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be (2012) online; Dorn, Charles. For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America (Cornell UP, 2017) 308 pp; Dorn, Charles.
Philanthropy in America: A comprehensive historical encyclopaedia (3 vol. ABC Clio). Curti, Merle E. American philanthropy abroad: a history (Rutgers UP, 1963). Curti, Merle E. Philanthropy in the Shaping of Higher Education (Rutgers UP, 1965).) Dillingham, George A. The Foundation of the Peabody Tradition (University Press of America, 1989).
Other businesses related to higher education have also had financial difficulties. In May 2019, two academic publishers, Cengage and McGraw Hill, merged. [66] In 2020, higher education lost 650,000 jobs or about 13 percent of the workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, despite an infusion of federal funds. [67]
The America COMPETES Act (formally America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act of 2007) [1] [2] [3] was authored by Bart Gordon [4] and signed into law on August 9, 2007, by President George W. Bush. The act aimed to invest in innovation through research and development and improve ...
The Foundation for Independent Higher Education (FIHE) is the national office for a network of state-based private college fundraising associations in the United States. [1] It was founded in 1958 as the Independent College Funds of America (ICFA). In 2010 it merged into the Council of Independent Colleges.