We are the second or third from the bottom in terms of funding effort for education in our country. E. Competition for Funding i. Chaos will ensue if each of the 10 SUS campuses circumvent the appointed Chancellor to get programmatic and funding support from the Legislature. This is already a recognized problem. Again, this will result in educational chaos, not improvement.
Resources are too scarce to be thrown away.
New programs ought have more rationale than the desire of a legislator. The maintenance of the BOR with the planning, budgeting, and coordinating functions noted above, will help to ensure that competition for funding is based upon educational and programmatic quality, not political expediency. This is not good for the SUS, even if for the individual faculty it is pleasant. One bargaining unit is required. Thereafter the search is in the sunshine.