Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom the nation's highest civilian honor by President George W. : /ʃəˈleɪlə/ shə-LAY-lə; born February 14 1941) served for eight years as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton and has been president of the University of Miami a private university in Coral Gables Florida since 2001. Donna Edna Shalala (pron.