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Whether Governor Spitzer will be able to make New York’s public universities competitive with the best public systems in the nation is a central question of his administration. Optimism may be premature, judging by the preliminary report issued by the governor’s Commission on Higher Education. The panel’s recommendations seemed to over-emphasize the importance of increasing spending, while underplaying what it expects from the State University of New York and other public schools once it recruits thousands of more faculty members and repairs its facilities. Academic standards are not simply a measure of resources. As the City University of New York proved in the late 1990s, standards improve when excellence is demanded.
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|Whether Governor Spitzer will be able to make New York’s public universities competitive with the best public systems in the nation is a central question of his administration. Optimism may be premature, judging by the preliminary report issued by the governor’s Commission on Higher Education. The panel’s recommendations seemed to over-emphasize the importance of increasing spending, while underplaying what it expects from the State University of New York and other public schools once it recruits thousands of more faculty members and repairs its facilities. Academic standards are not simply a measure of resources. As the City University of New York proved in the late 1990s, standards improve when excellence is demanded.
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