Frohnmayer's Bad News For Oregon Higher Education

http://willamettereds.blogspot.com/2009/11/frohnmayers-bad-news-for-oregon-higher.html "Frohnmayer's fabled urgency comes at a bad moment and we wonder if this is a ham- fisted attempt at lobbying or a means of grabbing revenue before another negative budget report comes in or an attempt to throw a few competing institutions under the bus. The Legislature can give the State Board of Higher Education authority to restructure the university system this February if Frohnmayer is able to create the panicked stampede he seems bent on. On the other hand, he may have just given the anti-tax people a great weapon to use in their fight to overturn the state budget. Higher ed could easily become the poster child of the anti-tax movement in Oregon. The let's-drown-government-in-the-bathtub folks could have no better model of what's wrong with public institutions and services than Oregon's higher ed system. If the budget is overturned there might not be much left to privatize…."