Essay
The rule has been to spend thousands of dollars importing administrators that have no knowledge or experience in Minnesota’s Higher Education Colleges or Universities.
The record declining enrollment over the last decade and Minnesota’s higher education administrators oblivious to its impact and always wanting higher and higher tuition increases display how harmful this process has been.
Higher Education Administrator’s salaries are among the highest paid public employees in Minnesota. Over the last decade they flaunted their ignorance to any harm caused by declining enrollment, massive student debt and an inability to communicate it to the legislature.
Review the hearings of the House Higher Education Finance and Policy over the 2023-24 session on Minnesota Higher Education Budgets reviewed at the campus level. The record $650 million in new money invested in Minnesota’s Higher Education Systems is a record that focused on the Campus Budgets, declining enrollment, student tuition and returning to an accessible and affordable path to providing Minnesota with trained individuals for its work force.
Representative Gene Pelowski
House Higher Education Policy & Finance Committee Chair