[Cincinatus' Wife]

Higher Education Coalition attack on [Texas Gov. Rick] Perry raises eyebrows

UCLA: "Gov. Rick Perry’s ‘Seven Breakthrough Solutions’ would make for bad business, undermine meaning of a university"

Perry's education record distinctly different from Bush's

[RockinRight]

If the Higher Education Coalition hates it, and UCLA hates it, then it’s probably a pretty good plan.

[Noumenon]

Worthless. Absolutely worthless without a serious reform of the curriculum accompanied a thorough housecleaning of Marxist faculty. Otherwise, it’s lipstick on a pig. A Marxist pig.

[Steamburg]

Another sterling recommendation for Gov. Perry. If the communists who brought you Obama are unhappy, it speaks highly for his program.

[VeniVidiVici]

One of the things I really like about what he has in there is the fact that we should be measuring our professors, Scott said in an interview with the News Service of Florida on Tuesday. I believe students ought to be measuring the effectiveness of our professors because ultimately, it is the familys money paying for this. We really ought to have a measurement system (that is) student-centered.

Every single professor in the system should be fired and made to reapply for their jobs. It's about the only chance taxpayers will have to clear-out the dead wood.

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[Socon-Econ]

Any move to get rid of politicized junk courses, unneeded law schools, unneeded graduate programs, socialist breeding grounds, etc.?

[BobL]

I hate to say it, but I totally agree with Perry (and Scott) on this one.

The system is TOTALLY PERVERTED now and should be illegal. If you look at “financial aid” in Ivy League schools, you’ll find that they no longer give any based on merit - it’s all based on ‘need’.

So they have a super-high sticker price that only families making $250k or more can afford flat out, and everyone else pays ‘based on their need’. This is SICK. I recently bought a (non-UAW) car and I paid ‘based on the price’. In fact, I don’t know any other product where you have to submit tax forms to know what the cost is...but you have to do that if you want to send your kid to college and you’re not loaded.

I’d love to see this system broken up, once and for all.

[metmom]

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