Posted on 05/10/2003 8:36:14 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:50:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The governor of Massachusetts recently rocked that state's higher education community with a brash cost-cutting proposal: dismantle the University of Massachusetts system's Office of the President and save millions each year.
That radical plan demonstrates just how far some leaders are willing to go to combat the debilitating budget deficits inundating nearly every level of government across the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
"Without those heads you'd have campuses fighting each other and that would not be a good thing," said Karl Pister, interim director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education and former chancellor at UC Santa Cruz.
Yeah, who would want competition in higher education
(sarcasm)
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