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Peter Ewell
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Timothy Riordan
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Virginia B. Smith Award
THE VIRGINIA B. SMITH Innovative Leadership Award for
the year 2001 has gone to Peter Ewell, vice president of the
National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and
Timothy Riordan, a professor of philosophy at Alverno College.
The award was presented at the annual meeting of the Council for
Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), in Orlando, Florida, last
fall. Ewell and Riordan were honored for “contributions to the
field of assessment and to improvements in teaching and learning.”
The award is named for, and honors, Virginia B. Smith, president
emerita of Vassar College. It is administered jointly by CAEL and
the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Tough Choices
IN DONALD HELLER’S article,
“Uncertain Times,” in your Fall issue
(National CrossTalk, Fall 2001), he
concludes by saying state policy makers
have a choice to make: “…slash state
support for higher education, leading us
back to an era of large tuition increases,
cuts in services and constraints on enrollment,
[or] maintain the state’s commitment
to public colleges and universities.”
The choice is misleadingly
simple; who would choose the former,
given this description?
In reality, the decision to provide
more funding for higher education is a
series of choices like providing less for
public schools, corrections, human
service programs and/or increasing taxes
or pressing higher education to perform
more efficiently. These choices
and actions are much tougher than Mr.
Heller implies.
Curtis Nichols
Assistant Budget Director, Office of
Budget and Program Planning, State of
Montana
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