Posts Tagged ‘budget’
I just returned from the annual SHEEO meeting. SHEEO is the organization representing “state higher education executive officers”—basically whoever in each state is the highest-ranking official overseeing public higher education—commissioners, chancellors, etc. About 200 people—the executive officers, their staff members, association people like me, some education researchers—attended the meeting in Denver and heard presentations from such luminaries as Michael McPherson, Senator Gary Hart, and AAC&U’s own board member, Jane Wellman.
Given the sorry state of state budgets, one would expect this meeting to be a dreary affair indeed. However, the mood was surprisingly upbeat. No one is happy about the budget situation, of course. And the consensus is that things will get worse once the stimulus money runs out. But this group of people seemed very dedicated to rolling up their sleeves and getting on with the business of improving public education no matter what the budget picture might be. Read the rest of this entry »
