Dive Brief:
- Gallup Education surveyed college and university presidents for Inside Higher Ed, hearing back from 647 educational leaders about a range of issues.
- Less than 40% are confident in their institution’s financial sustainability over the next 10 years, Inside Higher Ed reports.
- When asked about race relations and the prevalence of sexual assault on college and university campuses, college presidents indicated their own campuses were better off than higher education institutions in general and, even then, more than two-thirds did not agree that sexual assault is prevalent on college campuses, according to Inside Higher Ed.
Dive Insight:
Inside Higher Ed’s fifth annual survey of college and university presidents is an important, anonymous look at the perceptions of the country’s education leaders. Its major findings included the fact that the majority of college and university presidents are opposed to the Obama administration’s performance rating system for their institutions. More than two-thirds of community college presidents supported the president’s proposal for free community college while 20% of private, nonprofit leaders did the same and 25% of their public school peers did so. The lack of confidence in the financial state of higher education institutions is troubling, as is the disconnect between general estimates about the rate of sexual assault on college campuses and the perceived problem according to college leaders. A full report about the survey results can be downloaded here.