5 New Year’s resolutions for higher education
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The conventional advice to people who compose New Year’s resolutions is to make them measurable, realistic and something they want to do. We are not going to heed that advice.
Whether they want to or not, we think it urgently necessary for administrators and professors to have candid conversations among themselves and with students, parents, alumni, politicians and other Americans about how to restore public confidence in higher education, which has hit its “lowest level ever.”
Originally published: January 2, 2025
Author: David Wippman
Position: President Emeritus
Institution: Hamilton College
Published by: The Hill