ACE has selected 33 emerging college and university leaders for the 2016-17 Class of the ACE Fellows Program, the longest running leadership development program in the United States. More...

Campus racial climate has become a larger priority for college and university presidents and their institutions, finds a new national online survey by ACE's Center for Policy Research and Strategy (CPRS). More...

CIHE has organised jointly with Universidad del Norte a unique international seminar that gathered 30 experts on higher education in Latin America in Colombia on March 4th 2016. The experts - including CIHE director Hans de Wit, and two research fellows Liz Reisberg and Ivan Pacheco - discussed and interacted with the audience about challenges, the future and internationalization of higher education in Latin America. 350 participants from all over Colombia and some neighboring countries attended that conference, illustrating the uniqueness of the gathering and the need for information and debate about higher education in the region. The proceedings (video and audio) are available here. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web.Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares
Motoko Rich, Amanda Cox, Matthew Bloch, New York Times, 2016/05/09
On average, "Sixth graders in the richest school districts are four grade levels ahead of children in the poorest districts." As usual with American sources, the data is also distributed by race. But race doesn't define the trend; socio-economic status does. "A higher proportion of black and Hispanic children come from poor families. A new analysis of reading and math test score data from across the country confirms just how much socioeconomic conditions matter." More...