President Scott D. Miller and Senior Vice President Sven de Jong
participated in the annual meeting of the National Association of
Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), February 3-6, on Capitol
Hill in Washington, D.C., as part of a series of activities on behalf
of private higher education.They attended briefings and reports on issues critical to private higher education, such as the federal government’s expanding role in both student aid and oversight of colleges, resulting in unprecedented challenges in Washington for independent institutions.
“Our institutions are being pressed on several fronts: fraud and abuse, state authorization, tax policy, teacher preparation, student aid funding, gainful employment, and college affordability, among others,” according to a NAICU spokesperson, who described the session as “the single most important national higher education event held in the nation’s capital.”
