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Globe Op-Ed Recommends NEBHE to Lead College Readiness Push |
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Excerpt from A Call to Action for New England Governorsby Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson
Op-Ed published in The Boston Globe, April 20, 2006
...New England's universities its historic ace card are a huge asset. The top-tier universities look secure. But the region's higher-education sector as a whole is wracked by inflating costs, losing the influx of foreign students that provided cash infusions in the '90s, and very slow to adjust to online competition from the likes of the University of Phoenix. Too few New England high school graduates are competent in math and science, even as shortages of scientists, engineers, information technology, and healthcare professionals loom. One possible solution: a new intermediary call it Opportunity New England, or ONE, and advertise it at home and nationally. It would provide online higher-ed information and telephone consultation service to let students focus on their needs as education consumers, creating blended on-campus and online courses of study, rather than simply responding to preset college curriculums. The New England Board of Higher Education could lead this first-in-America innovation, but support from the governors could spark the excitement to make the launch successful...
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