Panel Urges U.S. Aid to Colleges
A White House advisory panel that studied the health of the nation’s colleges and universities has concluded that they are weighed down with aging buildings and outmoded equipment and need more federal money, a leader of the group says.
“The university and college system is not healthy at all. It is in rather a parlous condition,” said D. Allan Bromley, a professor of physics at Yale University and vice chairman of the White House Science Council’s Panel on the Health of U.S. Universities and Colleges. Bromley was describing findings and recommendations made by the panel in a report scheduled for release within a month.
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