The Honorable Diane Auer Jones, President/CEO, The Washington Campus; former Assistant Secretary for Post Secondary, Department of EducationThe insane onslaught of the Nanny state continues out of control. Here’s an example of the over-reach of the Federal Government thanks to the clowns on Capitol Hill that not only represents an outrageous waste of money and resources, but it also intrudes into areas that the government has no business invading. As this story unfolds, the “nanny” concept couldn’t be more appropriate. Why this outrage hasn’t made it to the talk show circuit or been covered in the media is alarming.
Former Post Secondary Chief for the Bush Administration from August 2007 to May 2008, Diane Auer Jones reports of this outrage in her article in “Minding the Campus” where in passing The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, educational institutions which receive federal student aid assistance must track all residential students who are “missing” from their residence for 24 hours. Ms. Jones does such a brilliant job exposing this issue, we need explain it no further. Please read this. It is not only outrageous for what it is but for the thinking it represents and just how far the nanny nonsense extends under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry (I need a laxative) Reid.
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2009/01/missing_the_point_about_missin.html
Does Ms. Jones say it all as it pertains to this issue? We will be on the look out for and report other examples of this kind of insanity which illustrates what life in Obama-Nation will be like if these fools continue such outrageous intrusion into citizens’ private lives and through the unfunded mandate cost society millions by forcing them to pay for unnecessary and insane programs.
Diane Auer Jones is possibly the nation’s leading authority on the state of post-secondary education today. She resigned her post in as Assistant Secretary of Education for Post Secondary in reaction to how the Department sought to “vocationalize” liberal arts programs essentially reducing the function of a college education to simple vocational training. She has spoken out assertively about the escalating cost of higher education and inequities in the admissions process. Ms. Jones was also a major proponent of The American Competitiveness Initiative while serving as a senior White House policy advisor. She is also a tremendous spokesperson for an expanded roll for community colleges and alternative education options.
Ms. Jones recently was a featured speaker at the annual conference for the National Association of Scholars. Her address was to address what she learned serving as Assistant Secretary with the Bush Administration and what lessons she learned should the incoming administration consider. Her address amounts to a brilliant state-of-the-state of the post secondary experience and a blistering indictment of its short-comings.
Here’s a link to her remarks:
http://www.nas.org/Diane_A.cfm
A much longer presentation, here is Diane Auer Jones in one of her last presentations as Assistant Secretary addressing the College Savings Foundation on the runaway escalation of the cost of post-secondary education and the problems students and families face trying to finance a traditional four year degree.
http://blip.tv/file/981599
This is a long presentation and her remarks begin after a brief introduction, but her insights are very disturbing for families with potential college students.
We applaud Diane Auer Jones’ efforts to bring much needed attention to the many challenges that are threatening the quality of a college education and the financial burders one faces trying to achieve such an education. Be familiar with her name. She is rapidly becoming the voice of the future of quality post secondary schooling.
Former Post Secondary Chief for the Bush Administration from August 2007 to May 2008, Diane Auer Jones reports of this outrage in her article in “Minding the Campus” where in passing The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, educational institutions which receive federal student aid assistance must track all residential students who are “missing” from their residence for 24 hours. Ms. Jones does such a brilliant job exposing this issue, we need explain it no further. Please read this. It is not only outrageous for what it is but for the thinking it represents and just how far the nanny nonsense extends under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry (I need a laxative) Reid.
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2009/01/missing_the_point_about_missin.html
Does Ms. Jones say it all as it pertains to this issue? We will be on the look out for and report other examples of this kind of insanity which illustrates what life in Obama-Nation will be like if these fools continue such outrageous intrusion into citizens’ private lives and through the unfunded mandate cost society millions by forcing them to pay for unnecessary and insane programs.
Diane Auer Jones is possibly the nation’s leading authority on the state of post-secondary education today. She resigned her post in as Assistant Secretary of Education for Post Secondary in reaction to how the Department sought to “vocationalize” liberal arts programs essentially reducing the function of a college education to simple vocational training. She has spoken out assertively about the escalating cost of higher education and inequities in the admissions process. Ms. Jones was also a major proponent of The American Competitiveness Initiative while serving as a senior White House policy advisor. She is also a tremendous spokesperson for an expanded roll for community colleges and alternative education options.
Ms. Jones recently was a featured speaker at the annual conference for the National Association of Scholars. Her address was to address what she learned serving as Assistant Secretary with the Bush Administration and what lessons she learned should the incoming administration consider. Her address amounts to a brilliant state-of-the-state of the post secondary experience and a blistering indictment of its short-comings.
Here’s a link to her remarks:
http://www.nas.org/Diane_A.cfm
A much longer presentation, here is Diane Auer Jones in one of her last presentations as Assistant Secretary addressing the College Savings Foundation on the runaway escalation of the cost of post-secondary education and the problems students and families face trying to finance a traditional four year degree.
http://blip.tv/file/981599
This is a long presentation and her remarks begin after a brief introduction, but her insights are very disturbing for families with potential college students.
We applaud Diane Auer Jones’ efforts to bring much needed attention to the many challenges that are threatening the quality of a college education and the financial burders one faces trying to achieve such an education. Be familiar with her name. She is rapidly becoming the voice of the future of quality post secondary schooling.
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