None of the countries we would like to compare ourselves to or think we're better than have as many students drop out college.
In a large university, the president spends so much time on fundraising and legislative relations and big thinking that they need a day-to-day management czar.
If in some cases car allowances were reported and others were not, it could be a back-office mistake. But if they did something systematically, that could be more of a problem of mismanagement.
Higher education has lost its way, but we've all lost our way.
I think it's very important that we raise to a national level and a federal level a discussion about what's happening to our competitiveness.
California's been a part of WICHE for 50 years. It's been a partner in a lot of activities, but not the WUE program. The CSU people I spoke to had presumed WUE was not on the table or didn't know about the program.
