Obama 'Shake-Up' of Higher Ed

By Tracy Mitrano. Especially in Western, Central New York and Pennsylvania, where President Obama is on a bus speaking tour of the region to give his opening salvos of a promised shake up of higher education, we await his pronouncements with bated breath.  What could he possibly propose that we have not all thought about, discussed and implemented already as remedy to access, completion and tuition challenges?  Prelude remarks bate our breath because word is out that at least some, perhaps most, of his proposals will be directed at our “industry!”  (Never mind that as not-for-profit institutions in the main, with very different corporate foundations, we are not an “industry.”)
I feel a few defensive hairs rising on the back of my neck.  Higher education has had a target on its back for some time now.  We scramble to pull out the array of regulatory arrows that have already been thrown at us. Read more...