Report Criticizes Higher Ed Policy Making in Washington State

Flawed efforts to restructure Washington's higher education governance and skyrocketing tuition have the state's college and university system "adrift" at a crucial time for its high-tech economy, according to the second in a series of analyses of state higher education governance and policy by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, "Policy and Leadership Vacuum Undermines Higher Education in Washington," was produced by the State Review Project at Penn's Institute for Research on Higher Education, which released an analysis of Illinois in November.