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Ted Mitchell Wants Equity to Drive Higher-Ed Innovation

August 5, 2016

Via: Ed Surge

In the middle of an open office filled with sticky notes, where pour-over coffee and coconut water flow freely and hipsters ideate in pods with a backdrop of the San Francisco Bay, sits an unlikely character. He’s 60 years old, short of hair and works for the federal government, but Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell defies the definition of a typical bureaucrat.

He’s holding meetings at IDEO, the lofty design consulting firm, where he’s having conversations about innovation in higher education. Next he’ll head to Stanford’s School of Engineering to speak at a summit called “Inventing the Future of Higher Education.”

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