Why Higher Education Should Reassert Its Ties To National Security

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : The #1 reason Americans value higher education is to get a good or better job.
56% : It's time for higher education to both reboot and rebrand.
56% : National security is a prime example of benefits that universities provide for the whole country, yet it is rarely mentioned in our current national dialogue about higher education.
54% : In addition to putting more effort behind bridging the political divide in views of higher education, college and university leaders must work to bridge the divide between those with and without college degrees.
53% : Confidence in U.S. higher education has crashed over the past decade.
45% : To reverse the declining confidence in higher education, college and university leaders must put effort into addressing the two biggest divides in views of it - the divide between conservatives and liberals and the divide between those with and without degrees.

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