Decision 2024

The presidential election and higher ed 

Vying for the White House, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are staking out distinct positions on higher education. As The Chronicle’s Rick Seltzer writes in the new essay that leads this collection, the candidates are the most recent players “in a long-running drama in which Republicans increasingly seek to define themselves against higher education” and “Democrats extol the virtues of spreading college’s benefits more broadly — sometimes in ways that frustrate the sector’s leaders.”

What will the rhetoric and underlying policy prescriptions amount to? This collection of Chronicle articles and commentaries reflects on Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, Joe Biden’s in 2020, and what’s to come. It offers analyses of the parties’ different dispositions toward, and impact on, higher education — while reminding us that academics are not unanimous in their views.

Section 1: What the Future May Hold
Section 2: Higher Ed and the Biden Administration
Section 3: What Higher Ed Learned From 2016 to 2020

Date: September 2024
Pages: 84
Digital file size: 38.3 MB

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