Mr. President, your current plan to reform higher education is too similar to the failed K-12 policy No Child Left Behind. It ignores the main causes of high college costs: the decline in state support for public higher education, and the fact that the drive for "assessment" has not only diverted time and resources away from teaching, it's also resulted in more overpaid administrators who cut costs by using poorly paid, uninsured adjunct instructors, while faculty salaries stagnate. Instead of only hearing from the administrators and business leaders who are characterizing education as a marketable commodity, include input from caring, classroom-experienced faculty and instructors--from all disciplines and types of colleges and universities-- into your plan to reform higher education.
This is historical material “frozen in time”. The website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work.
