EEUU/February 20, 2018/By John McLaughlin and Keith Frederick/Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com
John McLaughlin is chief executive and partner of McLaughlin and Associates. Keith Frederick is the owner of FrederickPolls.
As Virginia’s new Democratic governor and Republican-majority legislature consider the state’s budget priorities, a bipartisan group known as the Virginia Business Higher Education Council has a suggestion.
Citing Virginia’s need to grow and diversify its economy, the council has mounted a grass-roots campaign called Growth4VA to make the case for increased state investments in colleges. They want to use that investment to leverage innovative business-higher education partnerships ranging from research and business start-ups to internships, work-study opportunities for students and strategic workforce development.
The council engaged us last year to investigate what Virginians really think about higher education and its economic impact. Because we ordinarily do our survey work on different sides of the political aisle, they asked us to team up and take the temperature of the state’s taxpayers and tuition-payers on this timely topic.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-higher-education-sets-virginia-apart/2018/02/16/66c32ce4-102a-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?utm_term=.e68954d9b09f
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