hat you would present to a legislator convincing that person to either add or reduce money to higher education in Georgia. Support your position with information from the readings and answer questions such as:
Should more money be shifted to higher education in Georgia?
Can more money be shifted to higher education in Georgia?
How can more money be moved to education—what areas will be cut and funds shifted or will you raise tuition and fees?
If you move money from another agency/program, how will you justify to that program and its constituents that you are taking money from that agency/program?
How do you convince other state legislators of the need to add more money to education?
Also, take into consideration we are in a national pandemic and Georgia has been hit especially hard. During the “shutdown” our state lost several hundred million dollars — should more money have been moved from our reserve funds to preserve education? Should education take as large of a percentage cut as other organizations? After all, aren’t we producing the future? Or, do we have more that we can cut than we are willing to admit? Some educational institutions will argue that their funding has not been restored to the level that it was prior to the Recession of 2008, and now 12 years later, you are making deeper cuts to state allocations. Can education survive on this funding model? Is a tuition increase inevitable? Is higher education going to price itself out of the market if it can’t find a way to reduce costs?
