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November 11, 2004
Role of higher education in Indiana
Some excerpts from the Higher Education Subcommitte of the Indiana Government Efficiency Commission
Indiana is a manufacturing state and, while this sector of the economy is shrinking, it still dominates the economy. This strength is also the state’s weakness. The concentration of jobs in the manufacturing sector has allowed several generations of Hoosiers to achieve and maintain a solid, middle-class standard of living with an education that extended no further than a high school diploma. Now education matters.While the public universities are highly ranked, their research and technology transfer capacity is not effectively linked to strategies to change the state’s economy.
In this endeavor, the greatest assets available to the state are its institutions of higher education. If Indiana is to increase its economic competitiveness, the state’s universities and colleges must:
Convert more ideas into products and services—and thereby into jobs.
IU-Bloomington and Purdue-West Lafayette must become more focused on graduate education, research, and technology transfer and less on undergraduate education.
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?id=12261
Posted by mikel at November 11, 2004 01:09 PM
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