"We can no longer afford to be complacent about the performance of higher education in America"

Four former governors, James B. Hunt, Jr., Garrey Carruthers, Frank Keating, and Richard W. Riley (who also served as U.S. Secretary of Education), recently wrote to every governor in the United States urging them to make higher education a priority and develop a state plan of action.

Their letter included three national commission reports – A Test of Leadership, from the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education, Transforming Higher Education: National Imperative – State Responsibility, from the bipartisan Blue Ribbon Committee of state legislators, and Accountability for Better Results, from the National Commission on Accountability in Higher Education – and studies generated by SHEEO and the National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education on state policy leadership for higher education.

The package sent to the governors included:
• The Letter (personalized for each governor)
• A Test of Leadership (very large - download via "save link as" recommended)
  National Commission on the Future of Higher Education
• Transforming Higher Education: National Imperative – State Responsibility
  Bipartisan Blue Ribbon Committee of State Legislators
• Accountability for Better Results
  The National Commission on Accountability in Higher Education
• Measuring Up 2006
  National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education
• The Need for State Policy Leadership
   National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education
• How Should States Respond to: A Test of Leadership? (very large - download via "save link as" recommended)
  Paul Lingenfelter in Change Magazine, January/February 2007