Who Should Set State Policy in an Era of Retrenchment?

The article reports on the crucial issues in higher education debated by education officials as to who will have the main role in identifying higher education policy. George B. Weathersby, Indiana commissioner for higher education, stated that higher education should be governed by a decentralized governance system. Clark Kerr, director of Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, stressed that education problems should be resolved by the individual colleges and universities.