Not much public enthusiasm greeted
Mitch Daniels' appointment a couple of years ago as the 12th president of Purdue University in Indiana. In his previous job as governor of the state, he championed vouchers and pushed through $150 million in higher-education budget cuts, about a fifth of which landed on Purdue's neck, so there was uneasy speculation over how he would implement the cuts after taking the helm at the university.
Since then, Daniels has implemented the first tuition freeze in 36 years, cut dining-hall prices by 10 percent, and teamed up with Amazon to offer huge savings in textbook costs. He also set up a new program that permits students to complete their required credits for a B.A. in only 36 months, saving almost $10,000 in tuition. In various smaller ways, he cut waste in any number of areas not directly related to what the students are primarily there to do,
i.e., get an education.
When asked by the [Chicago] Tribune if he worried about losing students to other colleges in the amenities race, Daniels replied:
“It could be that we’ll still lose students to someone with a higher climbing wall, but we are prepared to take that chance.”
4 comments:
Good. My late father in law was a Perdue man. He would be proud.
Ouch. Amazon books? That'll hurt somebody fierce, that profits off semester based textbook versions. Who those people are, I still don't know. But they're probably connected to Democrats. Look up SFWA and John Scalzi.
Not to be a nitpick, but it's Purdue, isn't it? I suspect the confusion arises from familiarity with your former governor.
Right you are! Fixed.
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