The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: Daniels Aims To Do For Purdue What He Did For Indiana

July 03, 2012

Daniels Aims To Do For Purdue What He Did For Indiana

As Republican governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels has been an efficiency maven, and his scalpel has gone after higher education along with everything else. He has also introduced price competition by welcoming Western Governors University Indiana, a low-cost online college that, among other heresies, gives credit for experience. The announcement that Daniels will become president of Purdue University led to speculation that he is eager to make a mark in the roiling universe of higher education. Read more at:
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120701/EDIT05/307019970/1021/EDIT

Jul 3, 2012 2:17:00 AM | Administration, Higher Ed Industry

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