February 27, 2011
State Lawmakers Seek More Say Over Colleges
Bills on the table include limits on salaries, sabbaticals, unions
Charlie Neibergall, AP Images
In Iowa, Gov. Terry E. Branstad (center) is expected to sign a bill limiting sabbaticals at the state's public universities.
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Charlie Neibergall, AP Images
In Iowa, Gov. Terry E. Branstad (center) is expected to sign a bill limiting sabbaticals at the state's public universities.
Republicans dominated state elections in November, promising to shrink the size and cost of government to help erase tens of billions of dollars in budget shortfalls. But the proposals they've floated since taking office look more like political point-scoring than serious cost-cutting.
Although significant budget cuts still loom for higher education in many states, much of the recent legislation aims to curb what some lawmakers apparently imagine as commonplace excesses of faculty
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