CSUN University News Clippings

College Leaders Offer Blunt Advice for Campuses Hit by Hard Times

(November 6, 2009)

By Goldie Blumenstyk

New York

“Dumb public policies,” like mandatory-sentencing laws that drive up states’ costs for prisons and leave less for education, may be part of the reason colleges are in such financial straits, the leader of the California State University system said at a forum here on Thursday, but that’s just a piece of the problem.

The bigger issue is that most colleges are too concerned with trying to compete for prestige rather than serve their students and their communities, said Cal State’s chancellor, Charles B. Reed. He and Arizona State University’s president, Michael M. Crow, spoke on a panel at the “Smart Leadership in Difficult Times” forum, sponsored by the TIAA-CREF Institute……..

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Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education