Nicholas Thompson wrote:
All,
I again attended the meeting of the goverenor's task force to suggest
what to do about the impending demise of the college of Santa Fe. The
accoustics in the room were terrible and so my report will be more
brief. Also, there seemed to be an attentive reporter from the New
Mexican there, so I imagine there will be something fairly informative
in tomorrow's papers.
Briefly, something seems to be taking shape for higher education in
Santa Fe. Economic analyses seem to suggest that the impact of
having (or losing) the college upon the city of Santa Fe is of the
order of HUNDREDS of millions of dollars. (/sic!)/ In other words, the
City cannot afford not to save or replace the college. The outlines
are as follows:
(1) City of Santa Fe takes ownership of most of the campus through a
bond issue. The rest is obtained by state or other enterprises having
to do with education.
(2) Laureate College leases 3/4 of the campus and takes change of the
College of Santa Fe. On this scenario, the college is up and going in
the fall. Laureate is a for profit enterprise that boasts 500,000
students world wide. It can sustain substantial losses for a few
years and is apparently willing to do so, but believes that it can
make a profit running an art school here, if it can lease the property
from the city at market rates.
(3) Something else educational will happen with the rest of the
college and the rest of the land.
I still think, even within this frame work, there is a place for a
framework that embraces all the educational and quasi educational
institution in the city as The City University of Santa Fe.
Laureate U. seems possibly a benign force under the present
circumstances, but we dont want them wagging the Santa Fe Educational
Dog. And I still think it is important to pull together the people in
Santa Fe who feel they benefit from having institutuions of higher
learning in the city.
I just cant think how.
There is another meeting of the task force from ten to noon THIS
wednesday, probably it's last meeting.
Nick,
Why can't you think how? I thought you were an applied complexity
scientist. I can think of a lot of "hows." Maybe I'll go to the
meeting Wednesday before I leave town again.
Merle
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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