Gary Gottlieb, the president of Massachusetts behemoth Partners HealthCare, recently discussed the similarities of the challenges facing higher education and health care.

He called  higher education and health care the civil-rights issues of our time.

He spoke at the "Summit on Cost of Higher Education'' run by the New England Board of Higher Education (www.nebhe.org) and the Davis Educational Foundation.

This story and video originated on NEBHE's Web site.