September 30, 2005

Education-Department Panel Will Develop a 'National Strategy' for Colleges

By KELLY FIELD

The U.S. Education Department has created a commission to devise a "comprehensive national strategy" on higher education's future, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced last week in a speech at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The panel is to focus on rising enrollments, declining affordability, and colleges' role in America's global competitiveness.

"Now is the time to have a national conversation on our goals for higher education," Ms. Spellings said. "I'm

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