Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

“There are roughly 4,500 colleges and universities in the United States, so there are roughly 4,500 stories about fall ’22 enrollment,” said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education. Some stories are more disheartening than others.

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HESA

APRIL 13, 2023

Not only does it use an active research program to back up it’s public affairs and government relations agendas, it actively tries to use comparative public policy analysis to help its members – who hail from over 40 countries – to pursue reform agendas in their respective states. So let me just end on this.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The idea that any one student’s beliefs can trump the honest teaching of art history is a chilling idea indeed.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Inquiring minds would like to know.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The district has had a history of mismanaging bond-funded projects, with some going over budget and needing costly repairs, according to a Times investigation , but officials have worked to address those issues. About 5 percent of the bond would go toward support services such as campus childcare.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Legal action would potentially bring into question Biden’s use of executive authority, which is the first of its kind in history. “We are aware of it, and it’s a matter of concern,” said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” The public will have an opportunity at that stage to provide another round of input by commenting on those proposed rules.” Harvard’s first Black president Dr. Claudine Gay broke new ground in July and made history at the nation’s oldest higher ed institution.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 30, 2024

I helped oversee the public affairs work and worked very closely with the government relations team there. Help tell their good news stories, get their faculty expertise out in the world, but also really work with them to identify and then potentially mitigate reputational and crisis issues that come around, seems more and more often.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2024

Politicians heavily funded by Israel’s premier lobbying firm – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – are more than happy to conflate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism. The bans on teaching the history of minority communities in the U.S. as they rile up voters in the 2024 election cycle.

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