The Postsecondary Education Review Commission isn’t getting the headlines that a governmental streamlining commission is getting, even though that panel could make the biggest change, says John Maginnis. “On just about everybody’s list of what is most screwed up with state government is that it runs too many four-year colleges, 14 in all,” he says. While the commission won’t take on the politically difficult task of closing a college, it could vote to tighten admission standards or cut back on degree programs. “This quietly hard-working commission is showing the way that we would be fools not to follow,” Maginnis says. Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
