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These "associations" are higher-educationlobbying groups like the American Association ofUniversities (AAU), representing 60 Americanresearch universities, and the American Council onEducation (ACE), a supergroup with members in thethousands...
...What's good for Harvard is often what's goodfor Ohio State, Williams and Smith," says TerryHartle, spokesperson for ACE. And from thisrealization springs a better way for highereducation to lobby...
Schools like Harvard join a number of groupslike the AAU and ACE, looking for large groupswith similar views on a particular issue. Or theycan form their own groups--Harvard and MIT formedthe Science Coalition in 1994 to press for moreresearch funding, and the group now has 60members...
...fight against the Riggs Amendment,Harvard's views were shared by the ACE...
...Frank Riggs (R-Cal.) tested this cohesionwhen, after being roundly outlobbied, he exemptedprivate universities from his attempt to eliminateaffirmative action. But Rudenstine and otherleaders were able to keep private schools in thefight--Rudenstine serving as a spokesperson forthe ACE as a whole...