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Higher Education in the Balance: What Does Society Want from Colleges and Universities?

March 20, 2017

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John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University (DC), moderated a conversation at ACE2017 between Sandy Baum, senior fellow at the Urban Institute, and Anthony P. Carnevale, director of Georgetown’s Center on Education & the Workforce.

The March 13 session focused on the economic and non-economic purposes of a postsecondary education, and how to re-engage society in the discussion.

See the full session below:

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