Here is an update by the Chronicle on President Obama’s private meeting with presidents of higher education institutions. While there were no concrete proposals one president, according to the article, believes that “some pretty substantial proposals will evolve in the next few months. The three take away messages were: Urgency on College Affordability, solution will have to affect all sectors of higher education, and the country needs innovations and cost-management from colleges and leadership from the states." F. King Alexander says, “I would say they’re in the process of formulating some proposals that would certainly have an impact on higher education and force higher education to think creatively about their ability to help students succeed and control college costs.”
According to the story, the meeting comprised of college presidents who have a record for implementing programs to increase achievement, reduce costs, or both. “The Obama administration was looking for ways to take successful efforts and make them ‘more strategic and more systemic and have more of an impact because we’re not where we want to be on college tuition.’”
