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2018 Leadership in the Nation’s Interest Spotlight: Thomas McInerney
by July 31, 2018
Thomas McInerney is the President and CEO of Genworth Financial, Inc. He is the recipient of this year's Leadership in the Nation's Interest Award. You can...
The Troubling Student-to-Counselor Ratio That Doesn’t Add Up
by Alanna Fuschillo May 04, 2018
This April, the Secretary of the Department of Education defended the Department’s FY 2019 budget request to Congress. One provision that caught legislators’ attention was a “zeroing...
Advancing Women in Corporate Leadership Spotlight: Pamela Barnhill, IBC Hospitality Technologies
by Pamela Barnhill, IBC Hospitality Technologies April 13, 2018
How important is gender diversity to your company, and what value does it bring?It’s extremely important to IBC Hospitality Technologies that as a company we embrace everyone....
Congress Needs to Get Serious About the Census
by Alanna Fuschillo March 22, 2018
It’s a tale that feels as old as time: Congress must once again wrestle with the beast that is the federal budget. As various stakeholders dig in on...
What CEOs Can Do to Improve Higher Ed Outcomes
by March 13, 2018
Business and higher education, given their importance to our country and its welfare, need to do a better job of communicating with each other. We have different perspectives and ways...
Advancing Women in Corporate Leadership Spotlight: Grant Thornton LLP
by Grant Thornton March 01, 2018
1. What are GT’s Business Resource Groups, and how do they help fulfill GT’s mission in this realm?A Business Resource Group (BRG) is a group of...
The Future of CHIP
by Caroline Ferguson January 18, 2018
CHIP, or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, is in limbo. The latest proposed temporary appropriations bill (“continuing resolution”) from Congress has added a six-year extension...
State Spotlight: Tennessee Students’ Visible Education Gains
by Alanna Fuschillo January 17, 2018
This past December, while the rest of us were looking ahead to 2018, the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) was busy looking back – specifically, to test score data...
Time to End Fiscal Year Foolishness
by Joe Minarik January 11, 2018
President Trump and Congress are now trying to wrap up the “must-pass” legislation for the beginning of fiscal 2018, which began more than three months ago. In fact,...
5 Issues with America’s Infrastructure
by Caroline Ferguson January 10, 2018
The next planned item on Congress’s and the Administration’s agenda will likely be a sweeping infrastructure plan. The Administration has promised that it will rebuild and...