Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education

                      (ARCHE)

   Voter Guide Questions to Candidates for Governor

1.Q) What do you consider to be the three most important issues currently facing Georgia's colleges and universities?

1a.A) Tenure! Both of the professors and the testing accreditation system. 

1b.A) Connecting to Outstanding High School students -- Have special 3 day seminar for selected high school students in a region.  The emphasis is on region.  Because one region may be academically behind another region and hence the 3 day seminar may have to be specially tailored. 

1c.A) Selling to High School Students -- My plan is that Georgia high schools students grades 11 and 12 choose their future direction and choose the curriculums and possibly their high schools.  In that effort, colleges would also sell to the students career and development paths for the students.  Students may go directly to vocational colleges and work High School credits off in other ways.  Or they may come back to high school realizing they need to finish in a proper way.  The issue is to let them learn to choose and plan.  However, colleges should be in the picture.  For example, Georgia Tech has a program directed by Paul Ohme, named CISMC.  It is designed to attract students to Georgia Tech.  

2.Q) What would you identify as the main challenge facing Georgia over the next decade and, as Governor, what role -- if any -- would you see for higher education in helping  meet this challenge? 

2.A) Outsourcing is our biggest challenge -- When we outsource jobs to foreign countries, we reduce the the need for talent in our own country.  Lowering the costs of education will help.  However, I feel apathy is part of our children and it is reflective of a shift from engineering to religion. 

3. Q)  Would you expand (groups that coordinate actions between higher education and private industry)? 

3. A) Part of the higher education is a monopoly and the Public Service Commission needs to be involved.  Groups that coordinate actions between higher education and private industry in themselves can provide competition relieving the need for the PSC. 

4. Q)  Would you expand (groups that coordinate between higher education and private industry to provide research)? 

4. A) Research is very import and I support allocating funds to research projects.  How the money flows would be based on technical concerns, but I would still want the Public Service Commission to be watchful of monopolistic interests. 

5. Q) As Governor, what priority would you give to funding. 

5. A) Funding would be based on competitive track records of research entities, would be based on utilizing private companies for research, and would be based on even doing duplicate tasks by different groups.  In all, the Pubic Service Commission would be reviewing the monopolistic aspects. 

6. Q) How would you encourage closer cooperation between higher education and the K-12 system ... .

6. A) For the grades 11 and 12, higher education would sell their services and provide seminars.  For K-10, higher education cannot be involved except as education assistance to the K-10 teachers.  My real concern is that the GOD Nation within our country does not respect higher education.  The results shows in the scores of our students. 

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Bachelor of Civil Engineer

Masters in Sanitary Engineering (1974)

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