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Obama and public higher education</h1><ul class="dateline"><li class="dateline__published"><time dateTime="2013-02-18136122778500022:49:45">Published: Feb. 18, 2013, 10:49 p.m.</time></li></ul></div><div class="main article__story " aria-live="polite"><article id="arc-RY7EREAGNBFFFC2UCCBPJTYJUI" class="article h-entry" data-type="article"><div class="multimedia-main"><figure class="article__image"><div class="article__image-wrapper"><picture><source media="(max-width: 500px)" srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F16barak190jpgjpeg-303928de10b7a5a7.jpeg?auth=b500e73c17f6521cbcfd602997fed2203a13ddb5fe8eb60baed625d75a140121&width=500&quality=90 500w"/><source media="(max-width: 800px)" srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F16barak190jpgjpeg-303928de10b7a5a7.jpeg?auth=b500e73c17f6521cbcfd602997fed2203a13ddb5fe8eb60baed625d75a140121&width=800&quality=90 800w"/><source srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F16barak190jpgjpeg-303928de10b7a5a7.jpeg?auth=b500e73c17f6521cbcfd602997fed2203a13ddb5fe8eb60baed625d75a140121&width=1280&quality=90 1280w"/><img src="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F16barak190jpgjpeg-303928de10b7a5a7.jpeg?auth=b500e73c17f6521cbcfd602997fed2203a13ddb5fe8eb60baed625d75a140121&width=500&quality=90" sizes="50vw" fetchpriority="high" loading="eager" decoding="async" class="article__image-content" height="600" width="300"/></picture><figcaption class="article__image-caption"><p class="article__mm-image-caption-text">President Barack Obama</p></figcaption></div></figure></div><div style="display:none" id="f0fVh8Ty7Y0OGi" data-fusion-collection="features" data-fusion-type="global/sharebar-beta" data-fusion-message="Could not render component [features:global/sharebar-beta]"></div><div style="display:none" id="f0fj2igXBXok2OD" data-fusion-collection="features" data-fusion-type="global/new-audio-player" data-fusion-message="Could not render component [features:global/new-audio-player]"></div><div class="byline"><span>By </span><ul class="byline__authorList"><li class="byline__author"><a class="byline__authorLink" href="https://www.nj.com/staff/lxstamat/posts.html" title="Linda Stamato at Star-Ledger Guest Columnist">Linda Stamato | Star-Ledger Guest Columnist</a></li></ul></div><div class="article__story "><div class="entry-content "><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="YM4VB6QF2BH6RH4HSBYUIWZMGA">Before the</p><div id="inarticle-1"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="ORMGB3FO2BFPZAPTCDRDUV53WI"><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Puts-Federal-Weight/137281/#top">State of the Union</a></p><div id="inarticle-2"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="NIOSSNOVHJDGFAEBDJNULM7H7I">message, there was speculation about what President Obama would emphasize, indeed, what priorities would take precedence in his second administration. It’s clear, now, that he is thinking big on climate change, immigration reform, energy independence and investing in a</p><div id="inarticle-3"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="VNW7ZKZ5BVHJDGKOMLUIOFNUOY"><em>"rising, thriving middle class."</em></p><div id="inarticle-4"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="U7UR64MSVRCNNJSHRSYEYMDYPA">What surprises me, though, is the lack of emphasis on how, for the most part, these priorities are to be met. How, for example, will we deal with the problems we face without investment in higher education? And, about that, about higher education, very little, other than cost relative to value—no small matter to be sure—was mentioned despite the fact that the very means to address challenges in the priority areas rest, significantly, in our nation’s institutions of higher learning, research and service.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-5"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="CPCVAWAZONHIPCLWRH3WEOXKUA"><em>The Legacy of Presidents</em></p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-6"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="EFXAH6MARFGXPEQU2X63U5ZY44">Last year, the nation celebrated the signing of the <a href="http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=33">Morrill Act</a>, the brilliant move that ceded federal land to the states to create <a href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_linda_stamato/2012/03/the_land-grant_colleges_educat.html">public, land-grant universities</a> that were intended to meld the liberal arts and sciences with the practical and applied, to educate the sons and daughters of the American working class, to build research capacity, and to help fuel economic--industrial and agricultural--growth. Signed by Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago, the Morrill Act was supported by a Congress that, though fearful of risk, saw immense opportunity and, even in trying times (not least a Civil War!), seized it, for the nation's future.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-7"></div><figure class="article__image"><div class="article__image-wrapper"><picture><source media="(max-width: 500px)" srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294658-large.jpg?auth=7a6927a846308211ddb62c8591c7822da4d06b80433be8539372c85a05763ff5&width=500&quality=90 500w"/><source media="(max-width: 800px)" srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294658-large.jpg?auth=7a6927a846308211ddb62c8591c7822da4d06b80433be8539372c85a05763ff5&width=800&quality=90 800w"/><source srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294658-large.jpg?auth=7a6927a846308211ddb62c8591c7822da4d06b80433be8539372c85a05763ff5&width=1280&quality=90 1280w"/><img src="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294658-large.jpg?auth=7a6927a846308211ddb62c8591c7822da4d06b80433be8539372c85a05763ff5&width=500&quality=90" sizes="50vw" fetchpriority="low" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="article__image-content" height="600" width="300"/></picture><figcaption class="article__image-caption"><p class="article__mm-image-caption-text">The statue of Abraham Lincoln looks out over the National Mall in Washington, D.C.</p></figcaption></div></figure><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-8"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="XWT3JAUWTZATVOLWPKI5LTF4VE">To prepare a nation for its future is a heavy responsibility; Lincoln was keenly aware of it and so, it seems, is Obama. As the new century takes shape, our president should think seriously about renewing <a href="http://www.nj.com/times-opinion/index.ssf/2012/03/opinion_land_grant_colleges_su.html">the covenant </a>between the people and their public, land-grant universities.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-9"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="HP4JLQ4MVBED7EVNBIA7SVVW24">Not only should President Obama follow in the footsteps of Lincoln, but also in those of two more recent presidents: Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. Under FDR's "New Deal," for example, 600 college campus buildings were constructed, and the federal work/study program helped some 620,000 students to stay in college during the Great Depression. During the Second World War, the federal government invested heavily in its public universities, placing $3.5 billion into military research and into the education of returning veterans under the formidably effective <a href="http://www.gibill.va.gov/">G.I. Bill</a>. Lyndon Johnson's signature contribution was an even greater public investment in ideas and in people, including his actions to extend federal loan programs and add grants to the range of financial options available to students. And, so, by the early 1970's, millions of Americans were attending college, including those who were previously, and significantly, underrepresented.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-10"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="MKMOZ6VCLJAS5AKX7GOEDII5HU">Can Obama match the legacies of these three presidents?</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-11"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="TU22TUGTCNGGVF3GE5CFBDWT3M">He has created his own opening. In his earnest appeal to the nation, he said:</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-12"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="W5P3DUVZ65ARBKNYAQZ4A3IUK4"><em>"Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?"</em></p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-13"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="WCBNWHTXQNEGTBAWYIJ3355FPI">These are questions that Lincoln, FDR, and Johnson may well have asked themselves for their actions produced higher levels of knowledge--and more well-educated people--in a nation that was confronting demands for scientific and technical know-how; they expanded capacity for research useful to states and communities as well as to the nation; and ensured the stability of institutions devoted to the public good and the national interest. In short, these presidents looked forward, preparing the nation’s citizens for the future. It’s not surprising at all that initiatives by these presidents led, in years following, to a massive and sustained federal commitment to basic and applied research in the sciences, engineering and medicine, by direct federal policy, to the nation’s state research universities, fueling innovation, industrial development, agricultural productivity--in a phrase, solid, sustained economic growth.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-14" class="middleParagraph"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="ENTHA46Y4JCBPGTANH3HQ653XE">"<em>Now,"</em> Obama observes:</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-15"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="3FJ2CHMFCJDRLP5YKTBPDLJLOI"><em>"Now is not the time to gut job-creating investments in science and innovation…..Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race."</em></p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-16"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="YAMEZJVVEVFPZAYODRW5BNRTCA">Just so. Obama needs to put the nation on a new trajectory, to capture the pioneering spirit of those earlier periods, and move toward a new inventiveness because meeting our needs--to broaden access and affordability, to invest in ideas, to reward invention--are as important now as they were 150 years ago. Education, as it has been all along, is an essential, a critical, driver for this nation, for its economy, society, democracy.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-17"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="ZNA7H2HYMBEZBK4WP5RZA2B6JY"><em>Investing in the Future</em></p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-18"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="35U7B3VVCFAR3K7G3RCQSSCG2A">The president can't do this alone. States, from the beginning, have been partners in the development of public higher education. We do not have a national university after all. States need to "up" their commitments. They will have support. For starters, there is the <a href="http://profs.wisc.edu/?p=4568">Lincoln Project</a>. Undertaken by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, <em><a href="http://www.amacad.org/news/pressReleases.aspx?i=194">The Lincoln Project: Excellence and Access in Public Higher Education</a></em>, will examine the impact of cutbacks in government support, competition from for-profit education providers and foreign universities, and emerging technological changes. And, it will advocate for the importance of public colleges and universities as key engines of economic growth, innovation, and upward mobility.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-19"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="VS6EFZXN2NFYFDZCC36NCH7OE4">The present challenges that led to the Lincoln Project were seen as early as a decade ago as threats to national security and, thus, attracted the attention of the <a href="http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/nssg/PhaseIIIFR.pdf">United States Commission on National security in the 21st Century</a>. It asked for a doubling of the federal budget for research and development. And, it recommended that scholarships to college students and loan-forgiveness incentives to graduates be linked to military or government service, or, say, teaching science or mathematics in schools. To use federal aid, in short, to meet public needs, which is an idea that the president ought to seriously consider. <br/></p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-20"></div><figure class="article__image"><div class="article__image-wrapper"><picture><source media="(max-width: 500px)" srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294728-large.jpg?auth=f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c&width=500&quality=90 500w"/><source media="(max-width: 800px)" srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294728-large.jpg?auth=f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c&width=800&quality=90 800w"/><source srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294728-large.jpg?auth=f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c&width=1280&quality=90 1280w"/><img src="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294728-large.jpg?auth=f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c&width=500&quality=90" sizes="50vw" fetchpriority="low" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="article__image-content" height="600" width="300"/></picture><figcaption class="article__image-caption"><p class="article__mm-image-caption-text">Tahitia is a US Air Force Veteran and, thanks to the GI Bill, a university student</p></figcaption></div></figure><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-21"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="RAYNMOO2NVHDZDK7BJMWNQSHCM">The states’ public land-grant institutions, moreover, are well-positioned to take on these educational and research challenges because they educate the bulk of the nation’s scientists, engineers and teachers.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-22"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="TM4HQBZ3GRAIFH4KGA36KGTV24">Implied, to be sure, is a significant commitment from the universities. Recognizing that they exist to push the boundaries of human knowledge, to serve as catalysts for human progress and change, to deliver new discoveries and inventions and produce graduates equipped to work in the world, the public, land-grant universities must recognize that a covenant, after all, requires a commitment, a willingness to move to improve, to fulfill obligations, cost-effectively, thoroughly, and well. They must be the first-rate institutions the nation needs them to be.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-23"></div><figure class="article__image"><div class="article__image-wrapper"><picture><source media="(max-width: 500px)" srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294732-large.jpg?auth=7a51eba204e021ce1a25f9746dfc41598ca36e45e06ed58940967e6f5ac5ebf7&width=500&quality=90 500w"/><source media="(max-width: 800px)" srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294732-large.jpg?auth=7a51eba204e021ce1a25f9746dfc41598ca36e45e06ed58940967e6f5ac5ebf7&width=800&quality=90 800w"/><source srcSet="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294732-large.jpg?auth=7a51eba204e021ce1a25f9746dfc41598ca36e45e06ed58940967e6f5ac5ebf7&width=1280&quality=90 1280w"/><img src="https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294732-large.jpg?auth=7a51eba204e021ce1a25f9746dfc41598ca36e45e06ed58940967e6f5ac5ebf7&width=500&quality=90" sizes="50vw" fetchpriority="low" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="article__image-content" height="600" width="300"/></picture><figcaption class="article__image-caption"><p class="article__mm-image-caption-text">Professors Martha Greenblatt and Charles Dismukes in the lab where they are working to advance sustainable energy</p></figcaption></div></figure><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-24"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="A5G7BCM2HVF4HMUWNXPJECKBHQ">The Obama administration should expand its vision of what publicly supported higher learning can mean to the nation. The president needs to stabilize the financial model of public universities, first of all, to ensure access to the multitudes of students who seek and can benefit from education so they can become productive, engaged, working citizens. In Obama's own words (from his Inaugural address), so they can <em>'learn more and reach higher.</em>' How else can the president hope to see a "<em>rising, thriving middle class</em>?" We are at risk for losing the social leveling effect of education as <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Higher-Education-Reform-a/136737/">tuition costs rise</a> and students carry heavy financial burdens. Education is the means to achieve a fuller measure of equal opportunity, especially, for those marginalized by history and present circumstance. As the nation confronts the fact of our <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/equal-opportunity-our-national-myth/?ref=todayspaper">rising inequality</a>, making education accessible and affordable is essential.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-25"></div><div class="related-articles-container" id="recommended-articles"><div class="branded-separator-line divider__nj"></div><p class="related-articles-affiliate">RECOMMENDED<span class="affiliate-spacer dot__nj">•</span><span class="affiliate-site">nj.com</span></p><div class="related-article"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="related-article-link" href="https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2024/11/super-football-conference-national-white-all-division-teams-2024.html?itm_source=parsely-api"><p class="related-article-title">Super Football Conference: National White All-Division teams, 2024<span class="related-article-date">Nov. 22, 2024, 1:41 p.m.</span></p></a></div><div class="related-article-divider"></div><div class="related-article"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="related-article-link" href="https://www.nj.com/opinion/2024/11/gov-murphys-congestion-pricing-vendetta-harms-new-jerseyans-opinion.html?itm_source=parsely-api"><p class="related-article-title">Gov. 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As the new century takes shape, our president should think seriously about renewing <a href=\"http://www.nj.com/times-opinion/index.ssf/2012/03/opinion_land_grant_colleges_su.html\">the covenant </a>between the people and their public, land-grant universities."},{"_id":"HP4JLQ4MVBED7EVNBIA7SVVW24","type":"text","content":"Not only should President Obama follow in the footsteps of Lincoln, but also in those of two more recent presidents: Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. Under FDR's \"New Deal,\" for example, 600 college campus buildings were constructed, and the federal work/study program helped some 620,000 students to stay in college during the Great Depression. During the Second World War, the federal government invested heavily in its public universities, placing $3.5 billion into military research and into the education of returning veterans under the formidably effective <a href=\"http://www.gibill.va.gov/\">G.I. Bill</a>. Lyndon Johnson's signature contribution was an even greater public investment in ideas and in people, including his actions to extend federal loan programs and add grants to the range of financial options available to students. And, so, by the early 1970's, millions of Americans were attending college, including those who were previously, and significantly, underrepresented."},{"_id":"MKMOZ6VCLJAS5AKX7GOEDII5HU","type":"text","content":"Can Obama match the legacies of these three presidents?"},{"_id":"TU22TUGTCNGGVF3GE5CFBDWT3M","type":"text","content":"He has created his own opening. In his earnest appeal to the nation, he said:"},{"_id":"W5P3DUVZ65ARBKNYAQZ4A3IUK4","type":"text","content":"<em>\"Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?\"</em>"},{"_id":"WCBNWHTXQNEGTBAWYIJ3355FPI","type":"text","content":"These are questions that Lincoln, FDR, and Johnson may well have asked themselves for their actions produced higher levels of knowledge--and more well-educated people--in a nation that was confronting demands for scientific and technical know-how; they expanded capacity for research useful to states and communities as well as to the nation; and ensured the stability of institutions devoted to the public good and the national interest. In short, these presidents looked forward, preparing the nation’s citizens for the future. It’s not surprising at all that initiatives by these presidents led, in years following, to a massive and sustained federal commitment to basic and applied research in the sciences, engineering and medicine, by direct federal policy, to the nation’s state research universities, fueling innovation, industrial development, agricultural productivity--in a phrase, solid, sustained economic growth."},{"_id":"ENTHA46Y4JCBPGTANH3HQ653XE","type":"text","content":"\"<em>Now,\"</em> Obama observes:"},{"_id":"3FJ2CHMFCJDRLP5YKTBPDLJLOI","type":"text","content":"<em>\"Now is not the time to gut job-creating investments in science and innovation…..Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.\"</em>"},{"_id":"YAMEZJVVEVFPZAYODRW5BNRTCA","type":"text","content":"Just so. Obama needs to put the nation on a new trajectory, to capture the pioneering spirit of those earlier periods, and move toward a new inventiveness because meeting our needs--to broaden access and affordability, to invest in ideas, to reward invention--are as important now as they were 150 years ago. Education, as it has been all along, is an essential, a critical, driver for this nation, for its economy, society, democracy."},{"_id":"ZNA7H2HYMBEZBK4WP5RZA2B6JY","type":"text","content":"<em>Investing in the Future</em>"},{"_id":"35U7B3VVCFAR3K7G3RCQSSCG2A","type":"text","content":"The president can't do this alone. States, from the beginning, have been partners in the development of public higher education. We do not have a national university after all. States need to \"up\" their commitments. They will have support. For starters, there is the <a href=\"http://profs.wisc.edu/?p=4568\">Lincoln Project</a>. Undertaken by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, <em><a href=\"http://www.amacad.org/news/pressReleases.aspx?i=194\">The Lincoln Project: Excellence and Access in Public Higher Education</a></em>, will examine the impact of cutbacks in government support, competition from for-profit education providers and foreign universities, and emerging technological changes. And, it will advocate for the importance of public colleges and universities as key engines of economic growth, innovation, and upward mobility."},{"_id":"VS6EFZXN2NFYFDZCC36NCH7OE4","type":"text","content":"The present challenges that led to the Lincoln Project were seen as early as a decade ago as threats to national security and, thus, attracted the attention of the <a href=\"http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/nssg/PhaseIIIFR.pdf\">United States Commission on National security in the 21st Century</a>. It asked for a doubling of the federal budget for research and development. And, it recommended that scholarships to college students and loan-forgiveness incentives to graduates be linked to military or government service, or, say, teaching science or mathematics in schools. To use federal aid, in short, to meet public needs, which is an idea that the president ought to seriously consider. <br/>"},{"_id":"52YUDVGXOFFLTGDIHWCHZQOKVI","type":"image","version":"0.9.0","owner":{"id":"advancelocal"},"credits":{"by":[{"type":"author","name":"US Department of Veteran Affairs"}]},"caption":"Tahitia is a US Air Force Veteran and, thanks to the GI Bill, a university student","additional_properties":{"published":true},"source":{"system":"MT"},"distributor":{"category":"staff"},"url":"https://advancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/image.nj.com/home/njo-media/width2048/img/njv_linda_stamato/photo/12294728-large.jpg","auth":{"1":"f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c"},"resized_urls":{"large":"https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294728-large.jpg?auth=f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c&width=1280&quality=90","medium":"https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294728-large.jpg?auth=f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c&width=800&quality=90","small":"https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294728-large.jpg?auth=f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c&width=500&quality=90","x_small":"https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F12294728-large.jpg?auth=f28ea435be4a937ffd353c0374ee42c5ad3910adc11506fc3944f58c852b251c&width=180&quality=90"}},{"_id":"RAYNMOO2NVHDZDK7BJMWNQSHCM","type":"text","content":"The states’ public land-grant institutions, moreover, are well-positioned to take on these educational and research challenges because they educate the bulk of the nation’s scientists, engineers and teachers."},{"_id":"TM4HQBZ3GRAIFH4KGA36KGTV24","type":"text","content":"Implied, to be sure, is a significant commitment from the universities. Recognizing that they exist to push the boundaries of human knowledge, to serve as catalysts for human progress and change, to deliver new discoveries and inventions and produce graduates equipped to work in the world, the public, land-grant universities must recognize that a covenant, after all, requires a commitment, a willingness to move to improve, to fulfill obligations, cost-effectively, thoroughly, and well. 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The president needs to stabilize the financial model of public universities, first of all, to ensure access to the multitudes of students who seek and can benefit from education so they can become productive, engaged, working citizens. In Obama's own words (from his Inaugural address), so they can <em>'learn more and reach higher.</em>' How else can the president hope to see a \"<em>rising, thriving middle class</em>?\" We are at risk for losing the social leveling effect of education as <a href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/Higher-Education-Reform-a/136737/\">tuition costs rise</a> and students carry heavy financial burdens. Education is the means to achieve a fuller measure of equal opportunity, especially, for those marginalized by history and present circumstance. As the nation confronts the fact of our <a href=\"http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/equal-opportunity-our-national-myth/?ref=todayspaper\">rising inequality</a>, making education accessible and affordable is essential."},{"_id":"N5EVX3IDCBFVNFZPTLS6LYBUAQ","type":"image","version":"0.9.0","owner":{"id":"advancelocal"},"credits":{"by":[{"type":"author","name":"Press of Atlantic City"}]},"caption":"Jared Kidd and Natasha Patel are completing four-year degree programs at Rutgers University","additional_properties":{"published":true},"source":{"system":"MT"},"distributor":{"category":"staff"},"url":"https://advancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/image.nj.com/home/njo-media/width2048/img/njv_linda_stamato/photo/505fbf0258c91preview-300jpg-1aa7cac2caaab22e.jpg","auth":{"1":"2a3195b2ab5ef16715a3cacdde082fcc63e0c6fbbde5c078a856c8b4c055197b"},"resized_urls":{"large":"https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F505fbf0258c91preview-300jpg-1aa7cac2caaab22e.jpg?auth=2a3195b2ab5ef16715a3cacdde082fcc63e0c6fbbde5c078a856c8b4c055197b&width=1280&quality=90","medium":"https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F505fbf0258c91preview-300jpg-1aa7cac2caaab22e.jpg?auth=2a3195b2ab5ef16715a3cacdde082fcc63e0c6fbbde5c078a856c8b4c055197b&width=800&quality=90","small":"https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F505fbf0258c91preview-300jpg-1aa7cac2caaab22e.jpg?auth=2a3195b2ab5ef16715a3cacdde082fcc63e0c6fbbde5c078a856c8b4c055197b&width=500&quality=90","x_small":"https://www.nj.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fadvancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimage.nj.com%2Fhome%2Fnjo-media%2Fwidth2048%2Fimg%2Fnjv_linda_stamato%2Fphoto%2F505fbf0258c91preview-300jpg-1aa7cac2caaab22e.jpg?auth=2a3195b2ab5ef16715a3cacdde082fcc63e0c6fbbde5c078a856c8b4c055197b&width=180&quality=90"}},{"_id":"C5UQSW3HZJDMLCV5VXEKPOCTTU","type":"text","content":"<br/>\n<br/>\nImmigration reform? Higher education is a special pathway for immigrants and new generations of learners and public universities are the primary locus of learning, and, as a result, provide a direct road to assimilation and productive citizenship. Create jobs? Build the economy? Find solutions to climate change? Protect our nation's environment? \"<em>Our failure to do so,\"</em> Obama again, <em>\"would betray our children and future generations.\" <br/>\n</em><br/>\nSolutions will come if we invest in the public's land-grant universities. And, they must perform at the level our nation requires to maintain a vibrant democracy, a safe, healthy and just society and a job-generating, thriving economy, one that rewards innovation and hard work with fair wages."},{"_id":"CPCHXI3NAVE6JBXWMZFS3Q7E2Y","type":"text","content":"This is a legacy looking for a leader."}],"created_date":"2018-09-10T07:26:55.256Z","revision":{"revision_id":"FWUFKJ2U3JHHJCFLNG63WBNRRY","parent_id":"S4VEN6AKJRC3VO3NLMP33YOWGI","editions":["default"],"branch":"default","published":true},"last_updated_date":"2019-03-30T12:56:39.878Z","headlines":{"basic":"In the footsteps of Lincoln? 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