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Regional compact frames role amid funding, enrollment pressures
Summary
Speakers described how the Midwestern Higher Education Compact supports states through convenings, bulk purchasing and reciprocity and warned that declining funding and a post-COVID demographic cliff are pressing challenges for regional higher education.
Speaker 1, Presenter, opened by describing the organization as "an interstate compact, which means states do business with other states without the federal government's involvement." He said the Compact provides value by saving money on insurance and textbooks and by "convening groups across the Midwest to problem solve and deal with the pressing issues that they're facing."
Speaker 1 placed the Compact's work in the context of two major headwinds: "decreased funding" for higher…
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