Ohio's Governor Presses Plan to Overhaul Higher Education

When Ohio's governor took office, just over a year ago, he vowed to make overhauling higher education a top priority.

The situation did not look good: In his view, tuition was rising too fast, and too few of the state's residents held college degrees.

Over the preceding decade, the price tag of a college education in Ohio had increased by an average of 9 percent a year. Barely one in three adults had earned associate degrees or higher.

"It was a totally unacceptable

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