National Faculty Group Convened at Atlanta HBCUs Urged to Help Determine U.S. Education Priorities: ATLANTA - The voice of higher education's core - professors and administrators - must play a pivotal part of determining what education needs to look like in the future, said a high-ranking U.S. Education Department official last weekend.
'We need your voice desperately,' Dr. Martha Kanter, under secretary for the U.S. Department of Education, told a group of educators gathered at Atlanta's Morehouse College on Nov. 20 for a panel discussion during the Faculty Resource Network national symposium, 'Challenge as Opportunity: The Academy in the Best and Worst of Times.'
'We've had the last eight years of not hearing the full voice of the faculty,' she said. 'The role you play is critical to the future of our American public. ... We are asking professors, college presidents, others, what the federal government can do to have the greatest impact on student achievement and bringing American higher education to a far greater level of impact in this country than ever before. ... We really are putting out a call to the country to redefine the role of federal government in education because we really have not clarified that role.'
