Precision Op-ed in Higher Ed Dive: Trump wants to nix the Department of Education. He should rebrand it instead.

Like many Republican presidents before him, President-elect Trump has promised to eliminate the Department of Education. Yet as EVP Hayley Matz Meadvin argues in a new op-ed, doing so would miss an important opportunity to invest in America’s competitiveness at a global scale.

A re-branded Department of American Competitiveness could unleash the power of the American workforce by setting a national innovation strategy for job skilling and training, STEM education, and community colleges. That’s a winning strategy that both Democrats and Republicans can get behind.

Read the full op-ed in Higher Ed Dive.

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