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Old 11-01-2018, 09:29 AM
 
Location: New Mexico via Ohio via Indiana
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You don't get more jobs when you cut the quality of public education and universities. Work force productivity and employer profits require a highly skilled work force in the 21st century.
Agreed. Everyone gripes about taxes in MN and MA but look what you get in return.
Also, I like Ojeda. Old school populist pro-union working class Democrat.
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Old 11-01-2018, 10:55 AM
 
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Agreed. Everyone gripes about taxes in MN and MA but look what you get in return.
Also, I like Ojeda. Old school populist pro-union working class Democrat.
Part of the challenge for Ohio is that it has never invested heavily in higher education. An anecdote that travels around educ circles is that, about 40 years ago, when told that Ohio's higher ed spending was 49th (per capita) among states, a legislator was said to be pleased because we did so much with so little. In the global picture, Ohio has two world-class universities - Case and OSU, when it probably should have three or four for its size. The best thing that the legislature could do to develop metro Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo would be to invest heavily in UCincinnati, UToledo, and maybe a consortium of CSU, Kent and Akron. Columbus benefits mightily from having OSU, to the detriment of other universities and cities in the state.
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Old 11-01-2018, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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Agreed. Everyone gripes about taxes in MN and MA but look what you get in return.
Also, I like Ojeda. Old school populist pro-union working class Democrat.
Average tax burden is actually less in MA vs OH.
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Old 11-01-2018, 11:31 AM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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Part of the challenge for Ohio is that it has never invested heavily in higher education. An anecdote that travels around educ circles is that, about 40 years ago, when told that Ohio's higher ed spending was 49th (per capita) among states, a legislator was said to be pleased because we did so much with so little. In the global picture, Ohio has two world-class universities - Case and OSU, when it probably should have three or four for its size. The best thing that the legislature could do to develop metro Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo would be to invest heavily in UCincinnati, UToledo, and maybe a consortium of CSU, Kent and Akron. Columbus benefits mightily from having OSU, to the detriment of other universities and cities in the state.
One problem with universities is that they are just as much about culture as they are about education (to be charitable). They are giant, lumbering institutions and do not really change quickly. The schools that are good and well-reputed now are going to be the same schools that are good and well-reputed in 50 years. I don't think state funding can really change this. Even with an infusion of cash, the Akrons and Toledos of the world are still never going to compare. The only change in higher education I can see in the next 50 years will be the closing of smaller universities.

Ohio does have a few elite institutions. Case, Oberlin, Kenyon come to mind off the top of my head. Ohio State and Cincinnati are also well respected. But still, much home grown talent is still always going to look to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Michigan, Northwestern, etc. Ohio simply doesn't have a school of the cache of the next level or two up. I don't think it's really possible anymore to just "make" one either.
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Old 11-01-2018, 11:48 AM
 
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One problem with universities is that they are just as much about culture as they are about education (to be charitable). They are giant, lumbering institutions and do not really change quickly. The schools that are good and well-reputed now are going to be the same schools that are good and well-reputed in 50 years. I don't think state funding can really change this. Even with an infusion of cash, the Akrons and Toledos of the world are still never going to compare. The only change in higher education I can see in the next 50 years will be the closing of smaller universities.

Ohio does have a few elite institutions. Case, Oberlin, Kenyon come to mind off the top of my head. Ohio State and Cincinnati are also well respected. But still, much home grown talent is still always going to look to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Michigan, Northwestern, etc. Ohio simply doesn't have a school of the cache of the next level or two up. I don't think it's really possible anymore to just "make" one either.
This is wrong-headed. Hiring top-notch professors and providing needed technology and physical spaces can develop a top-flight university.

The ascendancy of Case Western is a perfect example. An infusion of Smith family (Lubrizol founders) funds greatly elevated the quality of its programs and its student base (through scholarships).

https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/smith-kent-h

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Every public university in Ohio should have robust artificial intelligence and machine learning programs. I would be surprised if this is a reality. CSU apparently has one artificial intelligence course and no machine learning courses.

https://www.csuohio.edu/engineering/...r-science-mcis

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science < Case Western Reserve University

Course Schedule: Fall 2018 | Computer Science Department at Princeton University
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Old 11-01-2018, 11:50 AM
 
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Average tax burden is actually less in MA vs OH.
Link?
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Old 11-01-2018, 12:40 PM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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This is wrong-headed. Hiring top-notch professors and providing needed technology and physical spaces can develop a top-flight university.

The ascendancy of Case Western is a perfect example. An infusion of Smith family (Lubrizol founders) funds greatly elevated the quality of its programs and its student base (through scholarships).

https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/smith-kent-h

Kelvin Smith Library: Give to the Library

Every public university in Ohio should have robust artificial intelligence and machine learning programs. I would be surprised if this is a reality. CSU apparently has one artificial intelligence course and no machine learning courses.

https://www.csuohio.edu/engineering/...r-science-mcis

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science < Case Western Reserve University

Course Schedule: Fall 2018 | Computer Science Department at Princeton University
Top notch professors want to work at top notch universities. The top notch universities have already been established (for now at least; it takes a long time to ascend nowadays). This is all just general. Of course Ohio does have some truly top of the line profs and programs (especially at the schools I've mentioned). But I think many other states just flat out have more because their elite institutions are just more plentiful and "sexier".

I do have quite a lot of experience with this at one of the aforementioned colleges here. I'm not celebrating this, but this is how it seems to me, from the inside. I know how funding works, I know how professors are, I know how curriculum is developed etc. It's really not as easy as just getting more funding (I wish it were). Even just the funding has thousands of strings attached, even for very simple sounding stuff. I deal with this on the daily.

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Old 11-01-2018, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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Link?
I was using this: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-wit...-burden/20494/

Perhaps some other studies would show Ohio coming out ahead, but regardless, I would say Mass and Ohio are about even as far as taxes go. The "Taxachusetts" moniker is a bit of a misnomer.
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Old 11-01-2018, 01:14 PM
 
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larkin is a far left liberal who needs to go away. anyone and anything against trump that's his story line. Not once reported anything good in two years regarding our president.
Nothing good to report except the economy, which trump inherited from Obama, and trump is doing the best he can to screw that up with his China trade war, among other things.
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Old 11-03-2018, 07:01 AM
 
Location: cleveland
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Nothing good to report except the economy, which trump inherited from Obama, and trump is doing the best he can to screw that up with his China trade war, among other things.
I disagree hundred percent. This economy has nothing to do with Obama. The tax cut was the greatest change to this economy along with pulling heavy regulations off of businesses and pulling out of bad trade deals

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live-...112742973.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.was...my%3f_amp=true
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