In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call Jay Schalin writes about the need to pare down North Carolina’s spending on higher education in the face of our large budget deficit. He suggests six criteria for the legislators to keep in mind. They would be just as applicable in other states.
It’s too bad that state university spending only comes in for serious examination when the budget is awash in red ink. There is no reason to tolerate the considerable waste of resources in state university systems just because it appears that we can afford it. But until now, higher ed has pretty much had sacred cow status.
