Ted Mitchell, President of the American Council on Education (ACE) joins Studiosity Academic Advisory Board member and host, Dr. Noreen Golfman, for this insightful conversation on the complex and challenging landscape of higher education policy in the United States. Ted discusses ACE’s critical role in advocating for institutions and students, highlighting efforts to develop mechanisms that create diverse classrooms; reframing the higher education narrative by emphasizing student success and social mobility over research output; and predictions for a more fluid, learner-centric system, with the growth of alternative models like ‘mega universities’.