http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2010/01/25/how-low-can-higher-ed-go/ EdNewsColorado Blog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:50:39 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2010/01/25/how-low-can-higher-ed-go/comment-page-1/#comment-5072 Higher education budget cuts « Cncrouch's Blog Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:56:58 +0000 http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/?p=4513#comment-5072 [...] http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2010/01/25/how-low-can-higher-ed-go/ Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Black Christmas for the academyColorado budget cuts to higher education [...] [...] http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2010/01/25/how-low-can-higher-ed-go/ Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Black Christmas for the academyColorado budget cuts to higher education [...]

]]> http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2010/01/25/how-low-can-higher-ed-go/comment-page-1/#comment-4903 van schoales Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:52:48 +0000 http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/?p=4513#comment-4903 Thanks Paul for keeping this on the front burner. It's time to form an advocacy group or two that focuses on improving CO higher education 24/7 (funding and impact should be closely connected). We can't continue to depend upon a few legislators, a committed set of University presidents and the mostly silent business community to improve public higher education in Colorado. As a few of us have pointed out on this blog, K-12 has an industry of advocates, non-profits and institutions that position it relatively well in the never ending policy debates. CO higher education is surprisingly absent in most discussions about the future of Colorado. Roads and energy exploitation (old and new) seem to get more traction for economic development. It sometimes feels like we are stuck in mid-20th century thinking about Colorado’s economy. Thanks Paul for keeping this on the front burner. It’s time to form an advocacy group or two that focuses on improving CO higher education 24/7 (funding and impact should be closely connected). We can’t continue to depend upon a few legislators, a committed set of University presidents and the mostly silent business community to improve public higher education in Colorado. As a few of us have pointed out on this blog, K-12 has an industry of advocates, non-profits and institutions that position it relatively well in the never ending policy debates. CO higher education is surprisingly absent in most discussions about the future of Colorado. Roads and energy exploitation (old and new) seem to get more traction for economic development. It sometimes feels like we are stuck in mid-20th century thinking about Colorado’s economy.

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