To Assembly Higher Education Committee,
I wish to submit the following recommendations:
1. Examine the amount of money spent on the delivery of instruction in the classroom versus the administrative expenditures at each college/university.
2. Identify resources that can be shared by the State colleges/universities.
3. Require each college/university to form a working Committee with broad campus-wide representation including administrators, faculty, professional staff, and Union representation to develop a balanced scorecard that is aligned with the University’s mission to determine how funding should be established. The scorecards should be submitted to the Senate and Assembly Higher Education Committees for review and recommendations to the Secretary of Higher Education.
4. Focus on using performance based funding metrics as incentive measures, rather than punitive funding strategies that will negatively impact minorities and low income students.
5. Require colleges/universities to partner with K-12 to develop and implement on-line and in-class remediation programs in the junior year of high school for students who are “at risk” (deficient in basic skills).
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