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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | April 8, 2014 09:50 AM |
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| From: | Representative Michael K. Hanna |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Co-Sponsorship- HANNA- Higher Education Action Committee |
| In the near future, I will be introducing a resolution designed to usher in an era of unprecedented postsecondary institutional cooperation with the goal of addressing the challenges faced in providing a high-quality, affordable college education for Pennsylvania’s students. After years of declining state funding and increasing tuition, we need strategies to address the current fiscal condition while developing achievable goals to strengthen higher education. Over two years ago, Governor Corbett appointed an Advisory Commission for Higher Education, which issued recommendations to enhance our postsecondary education system. Unfortunately, the advisory commission’s recommendations have been ignored. The time has come to enact real-world policies to provide much needed educational and administrative improvements across the spectrum of our diverse higher education opportunities. Working together will allow us to remain competitive, accountable and strategic in the decades to come. My proposal establishes the Higher Education Action Committee, chaired by the head of the Governor’s Commission on Postsecondary Education and including the Chancellor of PASSHE, the presidents of our state-related universities, the secretary of the Department of Education, the president of the Commission on Community Colleges, the CEO of PHEAA as well as faculty and student representatives. These representatives will prepare an action plan and timeline designed to deliver better educational opportunities for all students. Please join me in cosponsoring this important legislation. |
Introduced as HR777