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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
What higher ed leaders need to know about what's going on in Washington - Autumn A. Arnett, Education Dive
Advocacy experts talk what's happening on Capitol Hill and how institutions will be impacted. The proposed tax reform legislation working its way through Congress has raised a lot of concerns for higher ed stakeholders and advocates. Brian Flahaven, senior director of advocacy for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, said “negotiations [between the conferees] are really happening already” and the convening of a conference committee is really “more of a theater conference.” “It’s now or never on the conference issues,” he said during a session at the Higher Education Relations Conference Thursday. “If you have been weighing in, if you have been talking about your presidents about weighing in, weigh in now.”
https://www.educationdive.com/news/tax-bill-hea-and-budgets-oh-my-what-higer-ed-leaders-need-to-know-abou/512623/