A quality higher education is a force for social mobility and the best means to realize the American Dream, she said. Students today sense that this option is growing less attainable for them. "Students today want to have the same opportunity their grandparents did with the GI bill," said Roiblatt. Though faculty members, administrators and even public officials have argued that higher education confers both personal and public good (including Governor Andrew Cuomo, who recently praised the SUNY system’s contribution to local and regional economic development), fiscal reality has been unflinchingly bleak… In addition to California, Nebraska, and New York, states with union representatives at this weekend’s meeting included Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.

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by Dan Berrett, Inside Higher Education.

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