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Santa Fe New Mexican.com - So was a collective veil lifted from lawmakers' eyes? Seems so; at a meeting of Legislative Finance Committee members Friday came a revelation that New Mexico has too many colleges. How 'bout that? Seven four-year schools and 18 or so two-year colleges later, legislators from both parties acted is if they agreed that something's got to be done about the soaring costs of public-supported higher education. B-b-but what can be done? Here we have all these colleges and universities, each headed by elected boards of trustees or governor-appointed boards of regents, all — or mostly all — providing educational service to a state sorely in need of it. As long as oil-and-gas revenues were rolling in, representatives and senators from one end of the state to another made it a point of pride to say he or she wrangled this or that many millions during the legislative budget sessions. Now, through little fault of the colleges, the money supply has gone dry. But because so many
boardmembers and administrators built so many academic empires, they and the Legislature face a grim reality. To the credit of pro-education, but fiscally realistic legislators like Sen. John Arthur Smith of Deming, there's at least a possibility that the next Legislature will take the least painful approach: budget-cutting where services are being duplicated.
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Editorial: Colleges great, but out of hand
From the Santa Fe New Mexican.com - So was a collective veil lifted from lawmakers' eyes? Seems so; at a meeting of Legislative Finance Committee members Friday came a revelation that New Mexico has too many colleges. How 'bout that? Seven four-year schools and 18 or so two-year colleges later, legislators from both parties acted is if they agreed that something's got to be done about the soaring costs of public-supported higher education. B-b-but what can be done? Here we have all these colleges and universities, each headed by elected boards of trustees or governor-appointed boards of regents, all — or mostly all — providing educational service to a state sorely in need of it. As long as oil-and-gas revenues were rolling in, representatives and senators from one end of the state to another made it a point of pride to say he or she wrangled this or that many millions during the legislative budget sessions. Now, through little fault of the colleges, the money supply has gone dry. But because so many 
boardmembers and administrators built so many academic empires, they and the Legislature face a grim reality. To the credit of pro-education, but fiscally realistic legislators like Sen. John Arthur Smith of Deming, there's at least a possibility that the next Legislature will take the least painful approach: budget-cutting where services are being duplicated. Read more
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