id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-010619 Where Are College Presidents' Voices on Important Public Issues? | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 1847 67 51 My opinion seems to be reflected in a recent American Council on Education report on public perceptions of higher education, which found that “the vast majority of Americans rarely hear college presidents comment on issues of national importance, and when they do, they believe institutional needs rather than those of the students or the wider community drive such comments.”p. College presidents today, however, do seem to be less involved in public debate than in the past. cache/news-010619.html txt/news-010619.txt