Higher Education Improvements 10 Years in the Future

Higher Education Improvements 10 Years in the Future: Question 8. In 10 years from now, how will you know Missourians are successful in improving higher education?
We will know Missouri is successful 10 years from now if, one, quite frankly we are no longer average as a state. Missouri has great ideas but when you look at performance, on most variables we have tended to be an average state. Average is not good enough.
We will know we have succeeded because weve moved ourselves beyond average. All those great ideas and reports that we have in Missouri will not just be on the shelf. We will know that they are actually being used and implemented and that because of our accountability system and our tracking system we have real evidence that would make changes in Missouri.
We will know that the culture of the state has changed and that means that the attitudes of the Missouri public -- the language of the Missouri public, the verbiage about the importance of higher education -- is not just coming from the governors office, from the presidents of institutions, from the elected leaders, but the common everyday citizen who may not have had higher education when they were growing up but were able to eke out a middle class livelihood, and are saying to their children, [writing] letters to the editor and showing through their vote and voice the importance of higher education.
We will know we were successful because we have more educated Missourians, more businesses, increased entrepreneurial activity in the state, more patents in the state, more research solving social problems in the state, and increased support for higher education among the Missouri public.

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