New Jersey moves ahead with higher education reform
Friday, December 27, 2002
Governor McGreevey in New Jersey is moving ahead with his plan to reform higher education. He'd like to move New Jersey's institutions to the top tier of research institutions nationwide.
Citing the loss of manufacturing jobs, the "export" of college students to other states, the growth of high-tech industries and the rising need for a highly skilled work force, the governor has called higher education a "top priority" and made the reorganization the centerpiece of his economic development agenda.
But reforming higher education is tough, as battles in Kentucky, for example, have shown. But they can be won, and the state's economic future will be brighter, if higher education can be made more innovative, entrepreneurial, flexible and responsive. Go
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New Jersey moves ahead with higher education reform
