Commission’s Final Draft Report Recommends Revamping Higher Ed Curricula
By David Pluviose
Almost three months after its first draft report was met with enormous scorn and criticism, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education has approved a very different final version. The new report
lists recommendations for improving U.S. higher education to ensure that graduates remain competitive in an ever-changing global environment.
Though the report garnered near-unanimous approval, some commission members have expressed concerns about the document, as well as the state of U.S. higher education.
***image:left***“Our findings indicate that, these days, we are principally privileging the privileged — [those] who, by virtue of circumstances of birth and civic status, are able to have expectations that match their aspirations,” says Dr. Arturo Madrid, a commission member and professor at Trinity University, in San Antonio. “All of us had most of those conditions. We need to remind ourselves that a very large percentage of our potential students do not.”
Among the draft’s recommendations:
-Revamp higher education curricula to encourage innovation and emphasize math and the sciences
– Increase higher education access via more aid to low-income students
