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Calls for reform in the Pine Tree State
Today's editorial from the Portland (Maine) Press Herald shows that the general public is growing weary of constant tuition hikes--especially when the institutions in question can and should cut administrative expenses. According to the Press Herald, the Maine legislature had the opportunity in 2004 to consolidate several of the campuses in the University of Maine system, but did not. The result: a six percent tuition hike this year, following last year's 10 percent increase--par for the course in American higher education, but nonetheless an unsustainable trend.
Cutting costs is certainly not an easy task. But with non-instructional "support staff" at universities having nearly doubled in the past twenty years, such budget trimming could occur without being seriously detrimental to academic quality. But it will take courageous trustees, administrators, and legislators to accomplish such a feat.
Posted by Sandra E. Czelusniak on May 19, 2009 at May 19, 2009 01:58 PM
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