Imagine if higher education had an additional $800 million to spend on its most pressing collective challenges. How might we spend that money?
That’s nowhere near enough to eliminate student debt, nor enough to ensure that small, regional and urban colleges aren’t under pressure to eliminate departments and majors. Those are governmental problems.
Still, it’s a lot of money, and used wisely, it might make a huge difference.
Of course, we shouldn’t count our chickens before they hatch. There’s a good chance that the $800 million might not materialize in whole or at once.
