Colleges are happy because that means they can beg/squeeze/coerce more money out of the states coffers = taxpayers.
Am I so stupid as to not be able to see why I am in the minority here?
Someone will surely educate me.
States = colleges do NOT need more money. They need fiscal responsibility and accountability. First let them meet their budgets with openess and scrutiny and then ask for more.
I don't buy it. I don't trust higher education money management.
CA, where I live is voting, no thanks to me, to throw yet more money at the community colleges, University of California system and California State University system.
Of course, business is good in CA, thanks to our governator, who also got reelected - he's the only Republican in Sacramento, I think.
And when business is good and people have more money, they lose fiscal sense.
I think we should stop throwing money at the higher education institutions.
What do you think?
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Posted by: NCN Staff | December 12, 2006 2:54 PM | Permalink to Comment