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President Simpson on the Issues

With more than thirty years of experience in higher education, John B. Simpson has been a longtime advocate for public higher education in the United States. Please see this collection of recent remarks and articles to learn more about President Simpson’s views on issues such as the PreK-16 education continuum, approaches to reducing high school dropout rates, funding basic research and maintaining America’s competitiveness, and the role of the 21st century research university in a globalized era.

Globalization

UB Today: From the President

UB’s role in “soft diplomacy”
Spring/Summer 2006
“The more active a role the U.S. plays in advancing academic exchange and collaboration, the more positively the nation is regarded overseas, and the greater our ability to reduce the cultural and national barriers that threaten our security and economic prosperity.” — JBS | More
Commencement Address
May 11, 2008
“We need a far-sighted national educational policy that provides the world-class research and education opportunities needed to maintain our competitive advantage, and we need to ensure equitable access to these opportunities for all of our citizens ” — JBS | More

Pre-K-16

Editorial, Inside Higher Ed

Sorting Through the Critiques
January 15, 2007
“The issue of diversity and access to higher education is a complex one, and can only be partially understood—or rectified—by looking at the end of the education pipeline. We must therefore focus on the entire spectrum of potential students’ experience that lead to the characteristics they arrive with at admissions time.” — JBS | More

The Inaugural Address of John Barclay Simpson

Academic Excellence and Access
October 15, 2004
“UB can, and indeed should, play a vital role in the strategic development of effective linkages between primary, secondary, and tertiary education in New York State.” — JBS | More