Policy Recommendations to Reform and Strengthen American Public Higher Education

This Manhattan Institute publication series aims to help inform those working to improve public institutions of higher education from the inside. This primarily includes members of governing boards (like trustees and regents), but also campus administrators, legislators, governors, and more. These governing boards not only choose presidents and chancellors, they also set important policies and oversee an array of practices.

Public colleges and universities are invaluable American institutions; these reports will help officials reform and strengthen them.

• Publics and Place: Leadership Development by State-Run and State-Based Universities by Andy Smarick
• Top Public Policy Programs Have Almost No Conservative Faculty by Frederick M. Hess, Riley Fletcher
• Protecting the Liberal Arts and Humanities in American Higher Education by Shannon Watkins

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