April 5, 2002

Governance of Alabama Universities Under Attack

By PETER SCHMIDT

After decades of rivalry, Alabama's public universities have finally found something that unites them: their staunch opposition to the idea of being placed under a single governing board.

An advisory committee of the Alabama Legislature has called for the creation of such a board because, it says, the state is ill-served by a decentralized approach to governing its 16 public universities.

But bringing about such a change would require major revisions in the state Constitution,

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