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State schools' biggest cheerleader: Louisiana State University chancellor F. King Alexander advocates that public universities fight
against private schools for a bigger share of government revenues.
CAN THIS MAN
SAVE THE PUBLIC
UNIVERSITY?
LSU chancellor F. King Alexander has a plan for
debt-free college. It starts by keeping states
from making Washington a sucker.
By Alexander Holt
LSU Office of Strategic Communications
O
n the morning of June 3, Senator Lamar Alexander
walks into an ornate meeting room in the Dirksen
Senate Office Building and gavels open a hearing of
the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to a standing-room-only crowd. At seventy-five, the
gray-haired Tennessee Republican has started to hunch over
and shuffle as he walks. But he retains the man-in-charge air
of a twelve-year Senate veteran and a former two-term governor, president of his state's flagship university, U.S. secretary of education, and, briefly, presidential candidate. Alexander only recently won control of this powerful committee,
once headed by Ted Kennedy. He has made no secret of his
desire to use the perch to put his mark on history as a capstone to his long career-by, among other things, rewriting the Higher Education Act (HEA), the federal statute
that controls everything from student loans to support for
minority-serving institutions.
Alexander hopes to make HEA reauthorization in part a
vehicle to deregulate higher education; he believes that there
is a significant amount of costly and burdensome federal red
tape imposed on states and colleges and that they should have
more flexibility. But as today's hearing on college affordabilWashington Monthly
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