Politics trumps good policy in proposed governance change in Tennessee

Inside Higher Ed: Tennessee and its Republican governor, Bill Haslam, have become national models for public higher education governance in the last few years. The state's multifaceted efforts to increase college completion, make community college free for many residents, reduce remediation and fully fund public universities based on performance have shown how much can change when a strong governor sets a clear, ambitious agenda and the state's institutions work together to bring it about.

It's the kind of systemic change that is often hard to pull off in the largely fragmented and autonomous world of higher education.

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