Higher Education Budget Cuts

Posted on January 9, 2008
Filed Under Community Partnerships, Education, Solutions |

Governor Gibbons’ budget cuts within higher education (read it here) will have a long term impact on Nevada’s economy and reverse the progress we have made as a community of ‘growing our own.’  These budget cuts will further restrict access to education, and the last thing we need in Nevada is a ‘less’ educated workforce.  We have an over abundance of this demographic.

The key areas of critical need Nevada has today remain in the professions of nursing, teaching (isn’t this ironic), engineering and information technology, all of which require higher education.  Only recently did Nevada increase spending in these areas to ‘grow our own’ with the hopes to someday cease our need to recruit these educated professionals to relocate from other states.  Today, we walk backwards, erasing that progress.

As much as Governor Gibbons’ decisions strengthen the need for companies such as Recruiting Nevada, it weakens the overall infrastructure that was being developed by community leaders to one day not have to rely on such services. 

When we developed Recruiting Nevada, it was a bridge solution until Nevada could grow its’ own.  I never expected it to become this large (or long) of a bridge.  I guess Governor Gibbons has provided us job security for the next few decades with his most recent budgets cuts.  Personally, I would rather see him work with the rest of us in the community to solve Nevada’s problem.  This surely is not the way to do that.  However, we don’t have time to argue that.  We will be too busy doing what our Nevada government should be doing.   

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  1. Win-Win-Win for education : Recruiting Nevada on February 1st, 2008 11:01 am

    […] Seems like a logical (and pretty easy) solution to me.  I don’t see a downside.  And considering the state of the economy in Nevada today and the Governor’s desire to correct the problem by further cutting education budgets – we can’t go wrong! […]

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