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Sputtering engines.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-APR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sputtering engines.(Letters)(Oregon's generators of prosperity need fuel)(Letter to the editor)

Article Excerpt
Byline: H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n ' s s l i d e The Register-Guard

In a series of editorials over the past several weeks, The Register-Guard has presented statistical evidence of Oregon's failure to support its institutions of higher learning.

The evidence has been easy to find. Tuition costs are too high, too much is demanded of faculty and state support has declined steeply. The results include low graduation rates, fewer top-performing faculty and students and losses in competition for federal research dollars.

Many more indices of distress could be offered - but the essential point is made by a final chart: Oregon is starving not only its universities and community colleges, but its own future. Higher education is the engine of prosperity, and in Oregon the engine is running on...

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