Concerns from former Regents chair

Editor:

As a former chairman of the Board of Regents I wish the current board well. I am especially interested in the success of our students and wonder if there are significant efforts to resolve the following:

1. What is being done to reduce the time to graduation? It used to be four years but currently a very large number of our students must stay for almost six. If there is not a consistent understanding of why students don't graduate in a timely manner and general agreement about what needs to be done, I am not sure the issue will be addressed successfully on any campus. Further, this is...