In many states, budget requests by state universities have had to be scaled back or frozen, while tuition, the share of the cost borne by the students themselves, has gone up. The problem with the governors【M1】______ is particularly distressing because they all agree that the quality of their colleges and universities helps drive the economic engines of their states. And they are constantly being told by everyone like【M2】______ college administrators to editorial writers that only way to make【M3】______ their state universities better is to spend more money. But it was against this backdrop that members of the association【M4】______ came together in this city to discuss issues of common concern, one is higher education. And the focus of their talks about college【M5】______ centered not on how money could be more effectively directed, but on what to get greater productivity out of a system that has【M6】______ become highly inefficient and resistive against change.【M7】______ As a result, the governors will embark a three-year study of【M8】______ higher education system and how to make state colleges and universities better able to meet the challenges of a global economy in the 21st century. And judging from the tenor and tone of their discussion, the study could produce a push in for higher standards,【M9】______ more efficiency and greater accountability. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge and his fellow governors came away from the meetings resolute with the belief that higher education needs a fresh look and【M10】______ possibly a major boost in productivity to meet demands of new technologies and a changing work force.
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