Land-Grant Presidents Call for New 'Covenant' With State and U.S. Governments

America's public universities must enter into a new "covenant" with federal and state governments to ensure that colleges have the technology needed to prepare a growing populace for the work force, a commission of public-university presidents said last week, invoking the words of Abraham Lincoln and Justin S. Morrill, who wrote the legislation that created the land-grant institutions nearly 140 years ago.

The Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities, a

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