Tom Crawford Quotations

So many times we get 30 students at the State House, from two universities and they have a broken message. We wanted to get as many students as possible and make this a statewide initiative to show unity.

If we are going to have to work until 70, we are all going to have to reinvent our careers at least once.

We have to begin to invest in our future, otherwise we'll go the way of the dinosaur. We need to get the job market and the current system of higher education turned around in the state of Ohio.

When we ran for Student Government last year, we ran on a higher education reform. This campaign is our answer to some of the promises that we made.

There are an increasing number of talented young people who 20 or 30 years ago would have gone to university who are not because university no longer means what it used to and they do not want to saddled with high levels of debt.

Employers are going to have to be more canny. People who might traditionally have gone to a red-brick may now just as easily go to a more modern university because the course is more interesting. So employers are going to have to head-hunt more on campus.

Our sincerest hope is that we give this the best shot that we can. We hope it works.

Everyone is involved but doing their own thing. Some are very much on board, others aren't. This isn't something you can force, but everyone seems excited.

In principle, it's a good idea. Other states have eased into this type of thing, but there's no way the state can take cuts like this all at once; it's just too much too quick.