Don’t expect much from task force
Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter wants to appoint a task force to set out a five-year plan for higher education in Idaho.
He will ask it, “How can we improve our higher education efforts?”
He wants the task force to figure out how to increase the portion of Idahoans with either college degrees or certification in an advanced skill to 60 percent. It’s somewhere around 40 percent now.
Gee, that’s a wonderful idea.
But given the history of such blue-ribbon committees at all levels of government, it is unlikely it will do more than give Otter the ability to say, “Well, I tried.”
First, such committees seldom generate ideas that reach far beyond giving each member’s college or university more money/ Lee Rozen, Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.
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