The second issue deals with the fact that it should be more of a seamless operation. These could be strengths but the political system has undermined them. Higher education has proliferated in the terms of institutions and programs to the extent that limited resources have been spread too thinly. The result is mediocrity throughout. I am still concerned that I have not seen the resolve to address this weakness.
People talk about it but little is being done.
I would add, that if something is not done in the next few years, then there will be very serious implications for higher education. They must be and I don't mean paper mergers. We have seen some of that where really nothing happened. You might have one president but you have two administrators there doing something in a major way, so you still have two campuses. So, I would say, the strength is that higher education really has the burden of setting standards for the rest of us.