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Past News Items

• The Chronical of Higher Education / May 2
  AI Detection in a Business. But Should It Be Faculty Business?
  In this op-ed, AAC&U Vice President Eddie Watson and Senior Scholar Jose Bowen—authors of Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning— discuss the increasing use of AI detection tools in academia.
• Diverse: Issues in Higher Education / May 2
  Study: More Collaboration Needed Between Faculty and Career Centers to Provide Workforce Preparation
  The study looked at responses from 6,800 college faculty to gauge the extent to which faculty play a role in students’ career journeys.
• The Forward / April 29
  'No divestment, no commencement': Students fear protests will upend their college graduations
  “There’s only so much you can control, even if you have policies that say we’re going to escort you out,” said Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
• Inside Higher Ed / April 18
  Experts Largely Impressed with Shafik's Performance
  Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, told Inside Higher Ed after the House of Representatives’ Education and Workforce Committee hearing on antisemitism that Columbia University President Minouche Shafik may have adopted too hard a stance against faculty speech as Republican committee members grilled her on whether Columbia continued to employ professors who had made controversial statements supporting Hamas.
• Diverse: Issues in Higher Education / April 5
  Investing in Community Colleges
  “[Gifts made to community colleges] have been truly transformative,” said Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges & Universities. “Community colleges traditionally haven’t had large endowments. They don’t have graduates who have immediate wealth who can give back in the way that a place like Harvard or Yale might.”
• Inside Higher Ed / April 3
  Pluralism Conference Draws Campus Leaders Amid Israel-Gaza War
  Lynn Pasquerella, president of AAC&U, said in her opening remarks that the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel “sent shockwaves around the world” and thrust campuses into the international spotlight amid the student protests that followed.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education / March 21
  Race to the Finish
  “College should prepare students for success in work, citizenship, and life,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella. “I worry about the latter two when we abandon electives grounded in the liberal arts and sciences.”
• The Washington Post / March 18
  AAC&U Vice Chair Jonathan Alger Named President of American University
  Alger serves as vice chair of the AAC&U board of directors. AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella said that Alger “leads with compassion, transparency, integrity, authenticity, moral courage, and humor.”
• University Business / March 11
  Performance-Based Funding: The New Normal, or a Schtick?
  "It's no surprise that places like Penn State would be in support of [these models] because highly selective research institutions are the primary beneficiaries," AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella says. "They are not the ones that need the most help with performance."
• Diverse: Issues in Higher Education / March 4
  Outrage Continues Over University of Florida's Removal of DEI Roles
  AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella said restrictions on DEI greatly impede the ability of colleges and universities to advance their missions.
• Diverse: Issues in Higher Education / February 23
  Report: Growing Number of College Grads Earn Less Than the Typical H.S. Grad
  AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella noted that other research has shown that a college is “still the most reliable pathway to the middle class.
• Inside Higher Ed / February 22
  More Than Half of Recent 4-Year College Grads Underemployed
  AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella said that deeper goal is graduates “finding meaningful work, especially at a time when there are skyrocketing mental health issues among college students and graduates.”
• Diverse: Issues in Higher Education / February 5
  Higher Ed Officials Express Uncertainty Amid Further FASFA Delays
  “If deadlines for decisions are not changed, students and parents may feel coerced into making decisions in the absence of complete and adequate information,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella.
• Forward / January 29
  No More Hostage Posters: Colleges Rewrite Rules on Speech Because of Israel-Hamas War
  “If free speech impedes another individual’s ability to learn, it’s a violation of that right to equal access,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella.
• The World / January 28
  Professors Fear Creeping Authoritarianism in Academia Amid Harvard Fallout
  “We need to get beyond . . . the expectation that presidents are going to be thought leaders who publish in scholarly journals but don’t do much else,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella.
• The Boston Globe / January 10
  The Impossible Role of University Presidents: 'Who would take this job in this day and age?'
  “People are reluctant to take on leadership roles when they recognize they will be attacked . . . because they are seen as part of a system that is un-American,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella.
• Diverse: Issues in Higher Education / January 4
  Higher Ed Voices Outrage After Harvard President Resigns
  “I think this is a sign of governmental overreach into the autonomy of higher education,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella.
• The Boston Globe / January 3
  Universities Nationwide Under Fire from Right-Wing Leaders Seeking 'a more traditional American society'
  "It’s a sad day for higher education when the pursuit of knowledge and truth is overshadowed by political agendas," said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella.