The company has already hired three people to work at its new King Street office. Silicon Valley businesses, he points out, rate university access among the top factors that interest them, with tax breaks at the bottom. The increase is due to higher tuition plus more research and training grants, reallocation of budget, a slight increase in state support, and returning most tuition and research dollars to the departments that generate them. I'm going to hang in there. He said an autonomy law passed last year that gave the university more freedom to make decisions was crucial in developing new partnerships with the community.
Procedural freedom is absolutely crucial.
At the same time, autonomy doesn't mean independence. The state must continue to support its university. A national survey spotlighted Hawaii as the state with the largest loss in state support for higher education in 1998-99. That's despite a 15 percent decline in enrollment at UH Manoa and 3-4 percent at the community colleges. Seven or eight years ago, the university received half that amount.