The Presidents’ Alliance is comprised of higher education leaders across the region who commit their time and efforts to enhancing the talent of the Greater Philadelphia region.

Primary Issues

• Degree completion, retention, and graduation strategies:
  • Highlight the region’s promising practices that increase access, persistence, completion, and overall post-secondary educational attainment in the region
  • Promote higher education’s business and economic impact by bringing together partners to position and promote the importance of post-secondary credentials.
• Attract, retain, and support top-level talent
  • Advocate for high-skilled immigration reform
  • Encourage the retention of foreign-born graduate students in the U.S., particularly those engaged in research in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) areas
  • Support creating efficiencies in obtaining and maintaining student visas and work permits
  • Advocate to improve our nation’s intellectual infrastructure in STEM as the gateway for economic prosperity and growth
  • Support legislation that cultivates research and development, entrepreneurship and innovation, thereby revitalizing America’s innovative edge in the global economy.
• Advocate for Federal talent investments and support programs and provisions that enhance access to higher education and assist individuals in increasing their level of education