Inside Higher Education
January 16, 2008
Molly Corbett Broad was on Tuesday named as the next president of the American Council on Education, which acts as the chief voice for higher education as a whole in federal policy debates.
Broad has held a series of senior positions in state university systems, most recently as president of the University of North Carolina System. She previously was executive vice chancellor of the California State University System and also was chief executive officer of Arizona’s university system. Since leaving the North Carolina presidency in 2006, Broad has remained active in higher education policy. Among other things, she was involved in the creation of the Voluntary System of Accountability, an effort by state university groups to have institutions report in comparable ways on student outcomes.
At North Carolina, she pushed a variety of measures to attract more funds for the university system. Some of her moves were controversial, as when she suggested that tuition — historically low in North Carolina — could increase (along with need-based aid). More popular on campuses, she won voter approval for $3.1 billion in bond authority for facilities — an infusion of funds that university leaders said was overdue to update aging facilities and to handle enrollment growth.
Broad will be the first woman to lead ACE. Of the numerous higher education associations in Washington, six are considered “presidential” associations, representing broad sectors of higher education, and those six are all headed by men — a fact that has been much remarked upon as women have not only dominated student enrollments but have taken on more and more college presidencies. [To read the entire article, go to: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/16/broad]
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