Today, Thursday, August 30th, Gov. Strickland spoke at Risman Plaza about the state of Ohio’s education initiatives, and he fielded questions from reporters. While he gave some cause for concern by focusing only on the importance of technical fields (failing to mention other types of programs such as the Social Sciences), his comments also gave some room for hope: He quite strongly declared that, no matter the changes that may take place across the state’s public education system, no individual institution’s quality would be diminished.
A few of our members were in attendance. And after the governor’s comments, we talked to a number of reporters and other interested individuals. We welcome and thank any visitors to the page, and we encourage you to scan through the past blog postings, to sign our guest book (link on the right), and to contact key politicians and university officials (link at the top of the page). Also, please contact us (link above); we would be more than happy to provide you with quotes and information for news items.
Senator Tom Sawyer, who was in attendance, went out of his way to come talk to us and to offer us encouraging words. He did the same for us this past spring at President Lefton’s inauguration. We gladly thank Sen. Sawyer for his continued support and for the work he is doing on our behalf in the state government.
I also had the chance to shake the governor’s hand, and we quickly exchanged pleasantries before he parted.
~Matt Phillips
