Pullias Center: Memo to Jerry Falwell Jr.

Pullias Center: Memo to Jerry Falwell Jr.

Pullias Center co-directors William Tierney and Adrianna Kezar, along with other directors of higher education centers, issued priorities for education in the United States in a memo to Jerry Falwell Jr., chair of the Task Force on Higher Education Reform .

The memo describes the role of the federal government in addressing seven keystone challenges now confronting higher education.

Co-signatories of the memo are:

  • Laura W. Perna, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, University of Pennsylvania
  • Matthew J. Hartley, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, University of Pennsylvania
  • Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Gary Rhoades, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona
  • Michael A. Olivas, Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance, University of Houston
  • Clifton Conrad, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • John J. Cheslock, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University