Ohio’s Higher Education

Did you know Ohio has a plan for higher education? It goes further than just a plan; it is commitment at the highest levels of state government to increase college graduations to turn around Ohio's struggling economy by supporting its workforce. Ohio is making its higher education system accountable to state investment, increasing the responsibility for Ohio's public colleges and universities to prove they are directly contributing to the state’s economic development.

Ohio's higher education reform will:

• Dramatically increase the number of Ohio college graduates supplying the workforce, thus contributing to an economic upswing.
• Tie higher education funding to university outcomes to produce graduating industry experts in the needed economic sectors, rather than solely rewarding enrollment.

These are bold steps that the rest of the country will want to watch carefully.

To support the need for such a reform, I recently spoke with Richard Simpson, managing partner at Bricker & Eckler LLP, on how the leading legal firm continuously turns to the state’s exceptional academic institutions for the latest crop of promising attorneys.

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